Download or read book The Real Gorbals Story written by Colin MacFarlane and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colin MacFarlane was born in the Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of No Mean City, the classic novel about pre-war life in what was once Glasgow's most deprived district. He lived in the same street as its fictional 'razor king', Johnnie Stark, and subsequently realised that a lot of the old characters represented in the book were still around as late as the 1960s. Men still wore bunnets and played pitch and toss; women still treated the steamie as their social club. The razor gangs were running amok once again, and filth, violence, crime, rats, poverty and drunkenness abounded, just like they did in No Mean City. MacFarlane witnessed the last days of the old Gorbals as a major regeneration programme, begun in 1961, was implemented, and, as a street boy, he had a unique insight into a once great community in rapid decline. In this engrossing book, MacFarlane reveals what it was really like to live in the old Gorbals.

Download or read book The Gorbals Story written by Robert McLeish and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author was born in the Gorbals in Glasgow, the son of a shipyard labourer. The play takes an angry look at the housing shortage as it explores the everyday life experiences of a crowded tenement.

Download or read book Urban Renewal Community and Participation written by Julie Clark and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection investigates the human dimension of urban renewal, using a range of case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe, India and North America, to explore how the conception and delivery of regeneration initiatives can strengthen or undermine local communities. Ultimately aiming to understand how urban residents can successfully influence or manage change in their own communities, contributing authors interrogate the complex relationships between policy, planning, economic development, governance systems, history and urban morphology. Alongside more conventional methods, analytical approaches include built form analysis, participant observation, photographic analysis and urban labs. Appealing to upper level undergraduate and masters' students, academics and others involved in urban renewal, the book offers a rich combination of theoretical insight and empirical analysis, contributing to literature on gentrification, the right to the city, and community participation in neighbourhood change.

Download or read book Gorbals Children written by Joseph McKenzie and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Divided City written by Theresa Breslin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for ten UK book awards, Theresa Breslin's hit novel tells of how two young boys - one Rangers fan, one Celtic fan - are drawn into a secret pact to help a young asylum seeker in a city divided by prejudice. Now adapted for the stage by Martin Travers, the play has already been produced to great acclaim at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre. Graham and Joe just want to play football and be selected for the new city team, but a violent attack on Kyoul, an asylum seeker, changes everything when they find themselves drawn into a secret pact to help the victim and his girlfriend Leanne. Set in Glasgow at the time of the Orange Order walks, Divided City is a gripping tale about two boys and how they must find their own way forward in a world divided by difference. This educational edition has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Published in Methuen Drama's Critical Scripts series the book: - meets the curriculum requirements for English at KS3, GCSE and Scottish CfE. - features detailed, structured schemes of work utilising drama approaches to improve literary and language analysis - places pupils' understanding of the learning process at the heart of the activities - will help pupils to boost English GCSE success and develop high-level skills at KS3 - will save teachers considerable time devising their own resources.

Download or read book The Story of the Barony of Gorbals written by John 1861-1928 Ord and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Tam Smith Art and Soul of the Gorbals written by Gordon Smith and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle of the eighteenth century, traders and merchants who travelled through Glasgow would refer to it as the pretty village, which lay on the south bank of the river Clyde. Later, in the nineteenth century it became a hub of industry, which attracted thousands of people looking for work and prosperity, but soon became overcrowded by Catholic immigrants from Ireland and Italy as well as Jewish people from central and Eastern Europe all looking to build a new life in the thriving city of Glasgow around the sparkling clear water of the river Clyde. By the twentieth century; it is said that the small area of the Gorbals on the south side of the river Clyde was populated by more than ninety thousand people and due to the decay in industry at that time it became the heart centre of poverty in Scotland's largest city. The Gorbals was fast becoming known as a grim and dangerous place, full of crime and alcohol, violent thugs and razor gangs. In 1935, the novel by H. Kingsley Long called, No Mean City, he painted the Gorbals as a run-down slum dominated by hard fighting men and criminals. Sadly, that is how the small area of south Glasgow has been perceived for the years, which followed, but if you ask any true resident of the Gorbals what it was like growing up in No Mean City, they will play you a very different tune. Gorbals people are tough, yet fair. They are also very generous and giving to people that have less than themselves. They are the type of people who survive and grow through adversity because they are real and streetwise and no matter what they accomplish or however well they achieve in their life, they will always carry a little part of the Gorbals streets inside of them, and many a great thing grew out of the streets in the Gorbals over the years. One such person from the Gorbals who fits all of the afore mentioned was my older brother Tommy, or "Tam," as most people outwith our family came to know him. He was a wee boy from the Gorbals whose soul was steeped in his surroundings. It just so happened, from a very early age he loved to draw. He loved to draw with chalk on the old sandstones walls of the tenement buildings he grew up in. He drew what he saw on any surface he could find. All he required was a discarded chalk ornament from someone's dustbin to etch with and the walls and pavements of the Gorbals would be transformed into frescos and cartoons based on anything he witnessed in the busy streets of the early 1950s south-side. Tommy drew so much that he became good at it and people liked what he drew, even as a little boy his drawings on the old dark-stained-sandstone walls amused the passers by who would often laugh at his images and some even threw the odd penny his way for his efforts and that I believe is really the moment, which caused him to earn the title of 'Gorbals Artist,' Tam Smith.As a boy, I would hear my older relatives laugh about Tommy and how he caused people to stop and stair at his childlike sketches and caricatures. I would say that his early art could stop traffic, but there wasn't much of that in those days, never the less, that image of him as a small boy truly focussed on creating images, drawing whatever came to him for people passing through his street is how I still think of my older brother when I imagine him as a child in the Gorbals. I also believe that a part of him never really grew up, that his imagination remained through his life in a fun-loving, almost childlike way.

Download or read book No Mean Glasgow written by Colin MacFarlane and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his last book, The Real Gorbals Story, Colin MacFarlane detailed how he witnessed a once great area, home to wonderful characters and grand old buildings, disappear before his eyes. By the time MacFarlane's tenement was knocked down in the early 1970s, he had left school and been rehoused in another part of the city. In an attempt to extricate himself from his Gorbals gang days, he took a job as an apprentice chef at one of Glasgow's top restaurants, where he soon discovered that his colleagues were just as insane as those he had mixed with on the city streets. Meanwhile, MacFarlane struggled to integrate into the more affluent area that his family had been moved to and soon found himself returning to his old haunts and back in trouble again. In No Mean Glasgow, MacFarlane charts his eventful, fun-packed passage from Gorbals street boy to grown man on the brink of a new beginning. He describes his adventures with a mixture of humour, sadness and delight. It is a book for those people living all over the world who remember the old Glasgow - a city teeming with warmth, passion, patter and characters who could brighten up even the darkest of days.

Download or read book Growing Up in the Gorbals written by Ralph Glasser and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1986 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De auteur blikt terug op zijn jeugd in een arbeiderswijk in Glasgow tussen de Wereldoorlogen.

Download or read book The Story of the Barony of Gorbals Classic Reprint written by John Ord and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of the Barony of Gorbals Few words are required to introduce this little work to the public of Glasgow. Suffice it to say that on several Occasions during the past four years I was invited and did deliver lectures on Old Gorbals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book No Mean City written by Alexander McArthur and published by Random House. This book was released on 1984 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No book is more associated with the city of Glasgow than No Mean City. First published in 1935, it is the story of Johnnie Stark, son of a violent father and a downtrodden mother, the 'Razor King' of Glasgow's pre-war slum underworld, the Gorbals. The savage, near-truth descriptions, the raw character portrayals, bring to life a story that is fascinating, authentic and convincing.

Download or read book Swing Hammer Swing written by Jeff Torrington and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, Tam Clay chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move in. Intersecting friends, old-timers and eccentrics, navigating his pregnant wife, frisky bedfellows and debt collectors, Tam stumbles through a derelict world on an odyssey of self-discovery. Wildly funny, outlandish and insanely ambitious – thirty years in the writing – Torrington’s pulverised ’60s Glasgow is crammed to the crevices with a blizzard of his unique and insatiable genius.

Download or read book Gorbals Doctor written by George Gladstone Robertson and published by Jarrold Publishing. This book was released on 1970 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Index Catalogue of the Gorbals District Library written by Glasgow (Scotland). Public Libraries. Gorbals District Library and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Gorbals written by Ronald Smith and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Gorbals Diehards written by Colin MacFarlane and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enid Blyton wrote about the Famous Five - wholesome kids who were always up to some adventure or other - but during the 1960s Glasgow boy Colin MacFarlane had his own gang: the Incredible Gorbals Diehards. These were young boys trying to survive in one of the world's toughest areas, the infamous slums of Glasgow. During the gang's daily adventures, they came across a plethora of undesirable characters, including foul-mouthed drunks, thieves, razor-flicking gang members, con men, fly men and street brawlers. Through it all, MacFarlane and his band of brothers retained their sense of humour while roaming the filthy, stench-ridden Gorbals backstreets. In the third volume of his acclaimed memoirs, bestselling author Colin MacFarlane reveals what it was like to grow up on the streets of the Gorbals during this period. Be prepared to be shocked and entertained at the adventures of the gang that called themselves the Incredible Gorbals Diehards.