In 1945 around one seventh of the population of Scotland lived in just three square miles of the city centre of Glasgow, leading to serious over-crowding. Living in slum conditions led to poor ...

Born the youngest of three in “the slums of Glasgow’s east end”, she was ... sung harmonies with her father at family parties in Scotland and northwest Ireland. Singing on stage and on ...

All UK cities had slum areas. The clips here were all recorded in Scotland in 1953 for a BBC ... The image shows a Glasgow family pictured in 1948.