Glasgow in the late 1940s was a place of slum housing, overcrowding and disease.
The post-war city struggled to pick itself up and the Gorbals area soon became one of Europe’s worst slums.
At the time, about 40,000 people lived in tenement housing, where conditions were appalling.
It was where photojournalist Bert Hardy saw an opportunity to capture striking images of life in the area.
