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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.
The Gorbals is an area in the city of Glasgow, ... 1911 Eglinton Street, Gorbals, 1939. In the 1870s, the City Improvement Trust cleared away the old ... Glasgow 1956 ...
Glasgow's first regular orchestral subscription concert series, played by an orchestra managed by the Glasgow Choral Union, was given in the grand hall from 1874 until the opening of the much larger St Andrew's Hall in 1877. Arthur Sullivan was its conductor for two seasons from 1875 to 1877. The Old Fruitmarket directly adjoins the grand hall ...
In the 1960s Glasgow Corporation decided to plan the construction of a new Theatre and Concert Hall in the city centre. [23] This eventually emerged in the late 1980s as the Glasgow International Concert Hall, at the top of Buchanan Street, but without the envisaged theatre. [24] The Citizens remain in its Gorbals site.
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.
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 ...
The county council also moved out again when they relocated to Lanarkshire House in Ingram Street in 1930. [9] After the new Glasgow Sheriff Court in Carlton Place in the Gorbals area of Glasgow was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 29 July 1986, [10] the Old Sheriff Court was left vacant and began to deteriorate. [11]
2014: 2014 Glasgow bin lorry crash: A Glasgow City Council bin lorry collides with pedestrians in Queen Street; 6 people are killed and 15 injured. [ 99 ] 2016: In the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum Glasgow votes 66.6% in favour of remaining in the European Union but the UK-wide vote is 51.9% in favour of leaving [ 100 ]