~I Survived the Gorbals~
The Gorbals has had a long reputation of being a gritty and rough area of Glasgow; with the problems of drunkenness and crime.“I survived the Gorbals” tells a story a young boy’s impoverished childhood growing up in the Gorbals slums during the 1950 – 1960s, reflecting back the most predominant concern was the fear of entrapment from my surroundings, to succumb into the life of drunkenness and crime.
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I have witnessed on so many occasions a pitiful display of people that are determined to drink themselves into a stupor. Drugs and alcohol have taken its grip on some of my relatives, most of them have found themselves in jail or prison, it beholds me of knowing there would a place for me in that environment.
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