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 ...

Local government correspondent Jamie McIvor looks at how it developed in Scotland ... Hulton Deutsch/Getty Images Slum housing was a problem in parts of Glasgow A century ago, those who did ...

But it’s a world away from the one he grew up in, as he explains in his memoir Slum Boy. Born in Glasgow in 1977 ... the last king of the Gypsies in Scotland. “My grandmother was a fantastic ...

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.