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Ruchill (/ ˈ r ʌ x ˌ h ɪ l /) is a district in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It lies within the Canal Ward of north Glasgow in the Ruchill Community Council area [1] between the Maryhill and Possilpark and North Kelvinside areas of the city. It had previously been characterised by a high degree of deprivation and social problems.
Possilpark, colloquially known as Possil, [1] is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow, situated north of the River Clyde and centred around Saracen Street. The area developed around Saracen Foundry of Walter MacFarlane & Co., which was the main employer.
City council areas have a higher mortality rate than predominately rural areas. This is especially poignant in Dundee and Glasgow which have the worst drug-misuse mortality rate in the country (two times higher than the national average). [12] In the City of Edinburgh, Drug related deaths have tripled from the 2000-2004 period to 2016-2020. [13]
Glasgow within Scotland; also see Greater Glasgow. According to the World Health Organization in 2008, the male life expectancy at birth in the Calton area of Glasgow between 1998–2002 was 54 years. [20] [a] A local doctor attributed this to alcohol and drug abuse, and to a violent gang culture. [23]
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 ...
[citation needed] The area was also the home of infamous Glasgow gangster Arthur Thompson (a.k.a. "The Glasgow Godfather"). [3] Provanmill's most famous landmark is the iconic twin gasometers of the now largely disused Provan Gas Works, which have become a portal into the city for motorists arriving on the adjacent M8 and M80 motorways. [4] [5]
The work is intended to improve the economic conditions in Govan (which is a deprived area of the city) and is linked to the University of Glasgow and Glasgow City Council-led "West End Innovation Quarter". The bridge lands at Water Row in Govan where a mixed use development of housing and commercial space is planned.
Such areas include: Marfleet in Hull, Hartcliffe in Bristol, Hattersley in Greater Manchester, Everton in Liverpool and Sparkbrook in Birmingham. Eight of the ten most deprived areas in Scotland are in Glasgow, and three of the nine worst in Wales are in Cardiff.