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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.
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]
Pages in category "Housing estates in Glasgow" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
However, luxury housing is an important market in Portugal, especially in the larger cities, as well as in Algarve, Cascais and the South Bank of the Tejo. All of the real estate market in Portugal is still recovering from a crisis, which means there are many empty houses in the suburbs, as well as construction firms in financial trouble.
A typical Glasgow tenement block. Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, has several distinct styles of residential buildings.Building styles reflect historical trends, such as rapid population growth in the 18th and 19th centuries, deindustrialisation and growing poverty in the late 20th century, and civic rebound in the 21st century.
The regeneration vision remained incomplete, and by the mid-1980s Springburn had become one of Glasgow's most notorious areas, exacerbated by decaying housing and lack of major employers to replace the decline in the railway industry, despite the creation of North Glasgow College (now Glasgow Kelvin College) at the former North British ...
Area E – closest to Gorbals Cross and Laurieston, consisted of an estate of twelve seven-storey deck-access blocks and two 24-storey towers at Sandiefield Road, constructed in 1968. [ 16 ] [ 6 ] [ 3 ] Within a few years, however, the low-rise buildings became badly affected by dampness and condensation problems [ 17 ] and were presently ...
In Timothy Pont's map and manuscript of 1596 the area where the late 19th century village of Easterhouse later developed was called 'Conflat'. Variations of this name are contained in the rental book of the Baronie de Glasgow (1513–1570) when it is recorded that one 'Johannes Woyd (John Wood) was rentaller of the 18s 8d land of Conflattis.