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Glasgow in the 1970s - Last days of the Old Gorbals
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Old Rutherglen Rd, looking west from Crown St. Some of Lennox’s prices: Margarine 6½p / Tea biscuits 3p / Sugar 7½p for 2lb / Condensed milk 8½p.  April 1973




Crown St, west side, south of Ballater St.  January 1974

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Crown St from Ballater St.  July 1973




Old Rutherglen Rd, north side at Florence St. Hutchesontown Parish Church.  April 1973

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Ballater St and Florence St. The building adjoining the tenement in Florence St was an Industrial School.   September 1973




Ballater St, looking west from Florence St.  April 1973

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Ballater St , south side at Thistle St. Cunninghame Memorial U F Church (H. and D. Barclay, 1898). This richly decorated Gothic building was gutted by fire and demolished the following day, in early December 1977.  May 1974




The Thistle St elevation of the Cunninghame.  March 1974

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Ballater St at Hospital St.  September 1973




Hospital St, east side between Ballater St and Old Rutherglen Rd.  Hutchesontown U F Church (1799), separated from the Cunninghame by 100 yards, 99 years and a world of architectural taste.  September 1973

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Hospital St and Old Rutherglen Rd.  December  1975




Old Rutherglen Rd at Hospital St.  Pearl Bloch, grocer and baker, next to James McKell’s Turf Bar - this had a real touch of the old Gorbals about it, but its destruction was all too imminent.  December 1975

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Hospital St, west side, south of Old Rutherglen Rd.  September 1973




Hospital St, east side at Cleland St.  September 1973

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Hospital St, looking north from near Cumberland St.  April 1973




Where Cathcart Rd meets Gorbals St, at Cumberland St. The Granite City is still there, under a different name.  April 1973

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Cumberland St, looking west from Gorbals St. The neat red-and-white brick building (1910) was an office and retail outlet for the Gorbals Grain Mills in Surrey St, which were demolished in 1970 (SCRAN has a fascinating set of John Hume photographs illustrating the mill).  April 1973




Gorbals St, east side at the railway bridge.  September 1973

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Gorbals St, east side, north of the railway bridge.  November 1973




Gorbals St, part of the east side south of Cleland St.  November 1973




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