Glasgow Gallery

Beauty Contests - Miss UK - Brighton

Miss UK contestants line up in Brighton ready for the final. Back row, from left; Gina Kerr (Bournemouth), Linda Gallagher (Scotland), Geraldine Fuller (Yorkshire), Lynn Combes (Isle of Wight), Jacqui Copland (North-East Scotland), Tracy Dodds (Manchester), Caroline Bell (Blackpool), Tracey Gunn (Miss Photogenic), Karen Cresswell (Tyne Tees) and Valerie Hopper (Brighton). Middle row, from left; Karen Stannard (Cardiff); Tanya Turnbull (Liverpool), Tracy Macmunn (Avon), Jayne Simpsom (Cumbria), Geraldine Mcgrory (Northern Ireland), Judith Hall (Newcastle), Diane Inglis (Walsall), May Monaghan (Glasgow), Susan Walker (Greater London) and Jennifer White (Berkshire). Front row, from left; Julie Duckworth (England), Anne Marie Woodhall (Birmingham), Lindsay Nuttall (Kent), Janet O'Shea (Cheshire), Joy Welsh (Plymouth), Denise Dicken (Wimbourne), Karen Gosling (Surrey), Kim Ashfield (Wales), Nikki Wright (Poole), and Amanda Juste (Buckinghamshire)

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A man walking through a backstreet of the Gorbals area of Glasgow

31st January 1948: A man walking through a backstreet in the run-down Gorbals area of Glasgow. The Gorbals tenements were built quickly and cheaply in the 1840s, providing housing for Glasgow's burgeoning population of industrial workers. Conditions were appalling; overcrowding was standard and sewage and water facilities inadequate. The tenements housed about 40, 000 people with up to eight family members sharing a single room, 30 residents sharing a toilet and 40 sharing a tap. By the time this photograph was taken 850 tenements had been demolished since 1920. Redevelopment of the area began in the late 1950s and the tenements were replaced with a modern tower block complex in the sixties. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4499 - The Forgotten Gorbals - pub. 1948 (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Under The Arch

31st January 1948: Two children walking in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. The Gorbals tenements were built quickly and cheaply in the 1840s, providing housing for Glasgow's burgeoning population of industrial workers. Conditions were appalling; overcrowding was standard and sewage and water facilities inadequate. The tenements housed about 40, 000 people with up to eight family members sharing a single room, 30 residents sharing a toilet and 40 sharing a tap. By the time this photograph was taken 850 tenements had been demolished since 1920. Redevelopment of the area began in the late 1950s and the tenements were replaced with a modern tower block complex in the sixties. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4499 - The Forgotten Gorbals - pub. 1948 (Photo by Roger Wood/Picture Post/Getty Images)