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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.
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The Glasgow Street Tramways Act 1870 ... Gorbals Street, Victoria Bridge, Glassford Street, George Square ... In 1956 it was rebuilt as a conventional bi-directional ...
While the City technical division is located in Clydesmill Industrial Estate near to Cambuslang, its corporate headquarters are at Caledonia House in Gorbals, Glasgow, having relocated from nearby Shawfield in 2009 when those premises were demolished for construction of the M74 motorway completion. [5]
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.
The Gorbals is an area in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, and former burgh, on the south bank of the River Clyde.By the late 19th century, it had become densely populated; rural migrants and immigrants were attracted by the new industries and employment opportunities of Glasgow.
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 ...