As part of our joint series on the future of Glasgow with our sister title the Glasgow Times, The Herald is looking at the challenges the city faces and where it can go next. We are also celebrating ...

Marc Molloy found remnants of paperwork dated from the 1940s which had been blown clear of the devastating Union Street fire.

Up to 40,000 people lived in the notorious Glasgow slum of the Gorbals in the late 1940s IT WAS the notoriously poor Glasgow slum which was rife with overcrowding and sewage running in the streets.

A social media user has shared images of charred documents which were sent into the night sky due to the fire on Union Street in Glasgow ...

Glasgow in the late 1940s was a place of slum housing, overcrowding and disease. The post-war city struggled to pick itself up and the Gorbals area soon became one of Europe's worst slums. At the time ...

In its beginnings, the problem was one of immigration. A century ago, thousands of poor labourers began to arrive in Glasgow. They came to work on the new-fangled railways and the docks of the Clyde.

IT WAS the notoriously poor Glasgow slum which was rife with overcrowding and sewage running in the streets. And harrowing black and white photos have shed light on the horrific living conditions of ...