For many Glaswegians their first memories will be of the high flats - these are 20 old pictures showing what life was like for those living in Glasgow towers ...

It was built in the 1950s to help clear out Glasgow’s inner city slums and is now home to more than 14,000 people. But those who live in the city’s Castlemilk were left without a major ...

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 ...

Residents of a small Scottish suburb who have to travel six miles to go to the supermarket have brought their case to the UN ...

Two days later, in the Glasgow slum of Camlachie, men in grimy cloth caps and women in shawls trudged out to vote. Result: Conservative Charles McFarlane, a black-browed hardware manufacturer ...

As a consequence, these slums became the breeding ground for disease ... of the personal testimony they offer. The image shows a Glasgow family pictured in 1948.