Sentence examples for of the Gorbals from inspiring English sources

History of the Gorbals.

When some of those Nigels, Quentins and Geoffreys grew up, they still bolted the door at night and trembled at childhood memories of the Gorbals Bogeyman.

Part of the dread that the name of the Gorbals still evokes can be attributed to a best-selling novel "No Mean City," by Alexander McArthur, a Gorbals native who wrote about life there.

On the south side of the Clyde you half hope to find some true remnant of the Gorbals, the filthy, tightly packed, big-hearted, crime-and disease-ridden warren of slums and pubs that housed Glasgow's army of industrial workers.That Glasgow has gone along with most of the ship-building and steelmaking that once made the city rich.

He co-wrote the postwar plan to rebuild Glasgow, headed the enormous London County Council architects' department, co-designed the Festival Hall and some of the Gorbals' only remaining high-rise blocks, then joined the "preservationists" and saved Edinburgh's Georgian New Town.

The plague was first seen in people living in the densely-populated area of the Gorbals.

The housing projects on this year's RIBA list included the regeneration of over 200 homes on the Gorbals district of Glasgow.

As for the Gorbals, the place has been knocked down twice over.

He was surprised, coming as he did from the mercantile bourgeoisie, to discover that his new alias had proletarian overtones: magazine editors confused him with the gritty, jobbing documentarian, Bert Hardy, and sent him on assignments to the Gorbals or murky, industrial Yorkshire when he preferred to photograph the tribal rites of patricians in Eaton Square or at Glyndebourne.

Harry Blake has a good deal in common with Bert Hardy, famous for his Picture Post images of boys in the Gorbals and girls at Blackpool.

For one of these, Miracle in the Gorbals, he sought out two of the original cast, Pauline Clayden and Julia Farron.