The Real Gorbals Story
True Tales from Glasgow's Meanest Streets
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1999
Mainstream Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-84596-733-8 (ISBN)
Mainstream Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-84596-733-8 (ISBN)
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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. This title witnesses the last days of the old Gorbals and reveals what it was really like to live in the old Gorbals.
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.
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.
Colin MacFarlane has written for a number of national newspapers, including Scotland on Sunday, the Sunday Times, the Scottish Sun and the Daily Record. He is the author of two further books about his Gorbals upbringing, No Mean Glasgow and Gorbals Diehards.
| Zusatzinfo | 1 x 8pp b/w |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84596-733-X / 184596733X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84596-733-8 / 9781845967338 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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