Gorbals high flats
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Gorbals high flats
Image: © Stephen Sweeney Taken: 17 Dec 2008
Housing typical of the Gorbals area. The highrise flats were built in the 1960s to improve the area from the derelict tenements previously typical to it, but the area only depreciated further into gang violence in the 1980s.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.851678
Longitude
-4.253564