Overcrowded and damp tenement houses led to tuberculosis and respiratory illnesses being rampant across the city. A national survey of 1902 revealed that Glasgow was the most overcrowded city in ...

And these haunting archive photographs of Old Glasgow taken in the Victorian era between 1868 and 1871 documented the cramped and filthy conditions the poor lived in as they struggled to survive.

Glasgow A photographer who pictured Scots living in tenement slums 45 years ago is now hoping to be reunited with his subjects. Nick Hedges took the photos for housing charity Shelter in Glasgow ...