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Shades of Grey: Glasgow, 1956-86 is a book of photographs by Oscar Marzaroli with an essay by William McIlvanney. [1]One of the photos from the book, a 1963 portrait of three young boys wearing their mother's high-heeled shoes playing in Kidson Street in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, was in 2005 made into a bronze statue installed in Queen Elizabeth Square.
Oscar Marzaroli (1933 – August 26, 1988) was an Italian-born Scottish photographer of post-World War II urban Scotland.He was born in Castiglione Vara in northwest Italy and came to Scotland with his family at the age of two.
Glasgow Gorbals (UK Parliament constituency) ... Glasgow, 1956–1986; Geoff Shaw (minister) Shawfield F.C. South Portland Street Suspension Bridge; South Portland ...
South Portland Street Synagogue was a former Orthodox Jewish synagogue, that was at 85-89 South Portland Street in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, Scotland, in the United Kingdom. From its establishment in 1901 until its closure in 1974, it was regarded as the centre of Jewish religious in Glasgow. [ 1 ]
Govanhill was one of the few areas to avoid Glasgow Corporation's programme of 'Comprehensive Development Areas' in the 1960s. This program saw older tenement housing in 29 inner-city neighbourhoods (including nearby Pollokshaws and the Gorbals) demolished and replaced with new non-traditional buildings, typically high rise or deck-access apartments of a lower density, with large proportions ...
Edwin Morgan set his poem "Glasgow Sonnet" in the Gorbals. Oscar Marzaroli explored life in the Gorbals in the 1960s in his photographs, notably in his collection Shades of Grey – Glasgow 1956-1987 "The Jeely Piece Song" [29] – a children's street song expressed profound change in the area's way of life.
Mostly residential, it is situated directly south of the River Clyde and forms part of the wider historic Gorbals district, which is covered by the Southside Central ward under Glasgow City Council. The area is linked to Glasgow Green public park on the north side of the river by St. Andrew's Suspension Bridge and King's Bridge.
Main Street railway station, Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland, was built by the City of Glasgow Union Railway while the new line from Shields Junction to St Enoch station was being developed in the 1870s. It was situated adjacent to Gorbals station , which served trains on the Barrhead branch line to St Enoch, close to where the two lines merged at ...