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The Gorbals is an area in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, and former burgh, on the south bank of the River Clyde.[1]

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  1. 150 relations: Alex Harvey (musician), Alexander Thomson, Alexander Watson Hutton, Allan Pinkerton, America's Cup, Arsenal F.C., Arthur Bliss, Ayr United F.C., Baronage of Scotland, Basil Spence, Belfast Celtic F.C., Benny Lynch, Bishopbriggs, Blackadder's Christmas Carol, Blessed John Duns Scotus Church, Glasgow, Brechin City F.C., Brentford F.C., Bridge Street subway station, Caledonia Road Church, Caribbean, Carol Ann Duffy, Carrick, Scotland, Castlemilk, Celtic F.C., Celtic F.C. supporters, Central Europe, Chelsea F.C., Church of Scotland, Citizens Theatre, Comanchero Motorcycle Club, Cotton-spinning machinery, County Donegal, East Kilbride, Eastern Europe, Ecclesiastical Latin, Edwin Morgan (poet), Fairfax Media, Frank Bruno, Frank McLintock, Gentle Giant, George Elphinstone, Gerry McAloon, Gerry McLauchlan, Glasgow, Glasgow Central (UK Parliament constituency), Glasgow City Council, Glasgow dialect, Glasgow Shettleston (Scottish Parliament constituency), Glasgow Subway, Glasgow Unity Theatre, ... Expand index (100 more) »

  2. Housing estates in Glasgow
  3. Irish diaspora in Scotland
  4. Jews and Judaism in Glasgow

Alex Harvey (musician)

Alexander James Harvey (5 February 1935 – 4 February 1982) was a Scottish rock and blues musician.

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Alexander Thomson

Alexander "Greek" Thomson (9 April 1817 – 22 March 1875) was an eminent Scottish architect and architectural theorist who was a pioneer in sustainable building.

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Alexander Watson Hutton

Alexander Watson Hutton (10 June 1853 – 9 March 1936) was a Scottish teacher and sportsman who is considered "The Father of Argentine football".

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Allan Pinkerton

Allan Pinkerton (August 21, 1819Mackay (1997), p. 20; August 25 was the date of his baptism, which many sources incorrectly give as his birthdate. – July 1, 1884) was a Scottish-American cooper, abolitionist, detective, and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have foiled a plot in 1861 to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln.

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America's Cup

The America's Cup is a sailing competition and the oldest international competition still operating in any sport.

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Arsenal F.C.

The Arsenal Football Club, commonly known as simply Arsenal, is a professional football club based in Holloway, North London, England.

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Arthur Bliss

Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss (2 August 189127 March 1975) was an English composer and conductor.

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Ayr United F.C.

Ayr United Football Club are a football club in Ayr, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Championship, the second tier of the Scottish Professional Football League.

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Baronage of Scotland

In Scotland, "baron" or "baroness" is a rank of the ancient nobility of the Baronage of Scotland, and a title of honour, and refers to the holder of a barony, formerly a feudal superiority (dominium directum) or prescriptive barony attached to land erected into a free barony by Crown Charter, this being the status of a minor baron, recognised by the crown as noble, but not a peer.

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Basil Spence

Sir Basil Urwin Spence, (13 August 1907 – 19 November 1976) was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Modernist/Brutalist style.

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Belfast Celtic F.C.

Belfast Celtic Football Club was an Irish football club.

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Benny Lynch

Benjamin Lynch (2 April 1913 – 6 August 1946), known as Our Benny, was a Scottish professional boxer who fought in the flyweight division.

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Bishopbriggs

Bishopbriggs (The Briggs; Achadh an Easbaig) is a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Gorbals and Bishopbriggs are burghs.

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Blackadder's Christmas Carol

Blackadder's Christmas Carol, a one-off episode of Blackadder, is a parody of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol.

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Blessed John Duns Scotus Church, Glasgow

Blessed John Duns Scotus Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Gorbals, Glasgow.

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Brechin City F.C.

Brechin City Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the townDespite the name of the football club, Brechin is not an official city.

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Brentford F.C.

Brentford Football Club is a professional association football club based in Brentford, West London, England.

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Bridge Street subway station

Bridge Street subway station serves Tradeston, Laurieston and the western fringe of the Gorbals in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Caledonia Road Church

Caledonia Road Church, formerly Caledonia Road United Presbyterian Church and Hutchesontown and Caledonia Road Church, is a ruined church in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Carol Ann Duffy

Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright.

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Carrick, Scotland

Carrick (from the Scottish Gaelic carraig, meaning 'rock') is a former comital district of Scotland which today forms part of South Ayrshire.

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Castlemilk

Castlemilk (Caisteal Mheilc) is a district of Glasgow, Scotland. Gorbals and Castlemilk are areas of Glasgow and housing estates in Glasgow.

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Celtic F.C.

The Celtic Football Club, commonly known as Celtic, is a professional football club in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Celtic F.C. supporters

The supporters of Celtic, a Scottish football club, were estimated in 2003 to number around 12 million worldwide. Gorbals and Celtic F.C. supporters are Irish diaspora in Scotland.

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Central Europe

Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe.

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Chelsea F.C.

Chelsea Football Club is a professional football club based in Fulham, West London, England.

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Church of Scotland

The Church of Scotland (The Kirk o Scotland; Eaglais na h-Alba) is a Presbyterian denomination of Christianity that holds the status of the national church in Scotland.

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Citizens Theatre

The Citizens Theatre, in what was the Royal Princess's Theatre, is the creation of James Bridie and is based in Glasgow, Scotland, as a principal producing theatre.

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Comanchero Motorcycle Club

The Comanchero Motorcycle Club is an outlaw motorcycle gang in Australia and South East Asia.

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Cotton-spinning machinery

Cotton-spinning machinery is machines which process (or spin) prepared cotton roving into workable yarn or thread.

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County Donegal

County Donegal (Contae Dhún na nGall) is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster and in the Northern and Western Region.

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East Kilbride

East Kilbride (Cille Bhrìghde an Ear) is the largest town in South Lanarkshire in Scotland, and the country's sixth-largest locality by population. Gorbals and East Kilbride are burghs.

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Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.

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Ecclesiastical Latin

Ecclesiastical Latin, also called Church Latin or Liturgical Latin, is a form of Latin developed to discuss Christian thought in Late antiquity and used in Christian liturgy, theology, and church administration to the present day, especially in the Catholic Church.

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Edwin Morgan (poet)

Edwin George Morgan (27 April 1920 – 19 August 2010), The Independent.

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Fairfax Media was a media company in Australia and New Zealand, with investments in newspaper, magazines, radio and digital properties.

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Frank Bruno

Franklin Roy Bruno (born 16 November 1961) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1982 to 1996.

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Frank McLintock

Francis McLintock (born 28 December 1939) is a Scottish former footballer, football manager and businessman.

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Gentle Giant

Gentle Giant were a British progressive rock band active between 1970 and 1980.

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George Elphinstone

George Elphinstone of Blythswood (died 1634) was a Scottish landowner, courtier, and Provost of Glasgow.

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Gerry McAloon

Gerald Padua McAloon (13 September 1916 – 13 April 1987) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Brentford and Wolverhampton Wanderers.

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Gerry McLauchlan

Gerard Timothy McLauchlan (born 8 March 1989) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a defender in his second spell for Brechin City.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Glasgow Central (UK Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Central was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 2024.

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Glasgow City Council

Glasgow City Council (Scottish Gaelic: Comhairle Baile Ghlaschu) is the local government authority for Glasgow City council area, Scotland.

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Glasgow dialect

The Glasgow dialect, also called Glaswegian, varies from Scottish English at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum to the local dialect of West Central Scots at the other.

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Glasgow Shettleston (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Shettleston is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood), being one of eight constituencies within the Glasgow City council area.

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Glasgow Subway

The Glasgow Subway is an underground light metro system in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Glasgow Unity Theatre

The Glasgow Unity Theatre was a theatre group that was formed in 1941, in Glasgow.

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Gorbals railway station

Gorbals railway station was a railway station serving the Gorbals area of Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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Govan

Govan (Cumbric: Gwovan; Scots: Gouan; Scottish Gaelic: Baile a' Ghobhainn) is a district, parish, and former burgh now part of southwest Glasgow, Scotland. Gorbals and Govan are areas of Glasgow and burghs.

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Govanhill

Govanhill (Cnoc a' Ghobhainn) is an area of Glasgow, Scotland, situated south of the River Clyde between Pollokshields, the Gorbals, Strathbungo, Crosshill, Polmadie and Queen's Park. Gorbals and Govanhill are areas of Glasgow, burghs, Irish diaspora in Scotland and Jews and Judaism in Glasgow.

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Hamish Imlach

Hamish Imlach (10 February 1940 – 1 January 1996) was a Scottish folk singer.

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Hannah Frank

Hannah Frank (23 August 1908 – 18 December 2008) was an artist and sculptor from Glasgow, Scotland.

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Harvey Harrison

Harvey Harrison (born 10 November 2003) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws

Helena Ann Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, (born 12 May 1950), is a Scottish barrister, broadcaster, and Labour member of the House of Lords.

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Huntingtower (novel)

Huntingtower is a 1922 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, initially serialised in Popular Magazine between August and September 1921.

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Hutchesons' Hall

Hutchesons' Hall is an early nineteenth-century building in Ingram Street, in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Hutchesontown

Hutchesontown is an inner-city area in Glasgow, Scotland. Gorbals and Hutchesontown are areas of Glasgow and housing estates in Glasgow.

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Hutchesontown C

Hutchesontown C was a Comprehensive Development Area (CDA) of an area of Hutchesontown, a district in the city of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Ilan Hall

Ilan D. Hall is an American chef, television personality, and restaurateur.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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Irish republicanism

Irish republicanism (poblachtánachas Éireannach) is the political movement for an Irish republic, void of any British rule.

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Ironworks

An ironworks or iron works is an industrial plant where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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James VI and I

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.

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James Watt

James Watt (30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

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Jeff Torrington

Jeff Torrington (31 December 1935 – 11 May 2008) was a novelist from Glasgow in Scotland.

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Jim Broadbent

James Broadbent (born 24 May 1949) is an English actor.

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Jimmy Boyle (artist)

James Boyle (born 17 May 1944) is a Scottish former gangster and convicted murderer who became a sculptor and novelist after his release from prison.

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Joe Yule

Ninnian Joseph Yule (30 April 1892 – 30 March 1950) was a Scottish-American burlesque and vaudeville actor who later appeared in many films as a character actor.

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John Buchan

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.

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John Kurila

John Kurila (10 April 1941 – 6 March 2018) was a Scottish footballer, who played as a wing half in The Football League.

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John Maclean (24 August 1879 – 30 November 1923) was a Scottish schoolteacher and revolutionary socialist of the Red Clydeside era.

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John Martyn

Iain David McGeachy (11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009), known professionally as John Martyn, was a British guitarist and singer-songwriter.

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John Spencer (born 11 September 1970) is a Scottish former professional footballer and coach.

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Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945.

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Kingston, Glasgow

Kingston is an area of Glasgow, Scotland, from which the Kingston Bridge takes its name. Gorbals and Kingston, Glasgow are areas of Glasgow.

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Kinning Park

Kinning Park is a southern suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. Gorbals and Kinning Park are areas of Glasgow and burghs.

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Kristine Kochanski

Kristine Z. Kochanski is a fictional character from the British science fiction situation comedy Red Dwarf.

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Laurieston, Glasgow

Laurieston is a district in the Gorbals area of the Scottish city of Glasgow. Gorbals and Laurieston, Glasgow are areas of Glasgow.

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Lawrence Chaney

Lawrence Chaney (born Lawrence Maidment; 16 October 1996) is a Scottish Glasgow-based drag queen.

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Leprosy

Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease (HD), is a long-term infection by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae or Mycobacterium lepromatosis.

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Lipton

Lipton is a brand named after its founder, Sir Thomas Lipton who started an eponymous grocery retail business in the United Kingdom in 1871.

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List of burghs in Scotland

The following list includes all effective burghs in Scotland from the coming into force of the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 55), in 1893. Gorbals and list of burghs in Scotland are burghs.

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List of provosts of Glasgow

The Right Honourable Lord Provost of Glasgow is the convener of the Glasgow City Council.

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Lorraine Kelly

Lorraine Smith (née Kelly; born 30 November 1959) is a Scottish television presenter.

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Magda Goebbels

Johanna Maria Magdalena "Magda" Goebbels (née Ritschel; 11 November 1901 – 1 May 1945) was the wife of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.

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Manchester United F.C.

Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United (often stylised as Man Utd), or simply United, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England.

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Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; other pseudonym Mickey Maguire; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor.

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Miracle in the Gorbals

Miracle in the Gorbals (1944) is a one-act ballet choreographed by Robert Helpmann to a story by Michael Benthall, with music by Arthur Bliss.

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Modern architecture

Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, was an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier Art Deco and later postmodern movements.

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Moors murders

The Moors murders were a series of child killings committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in and around Manchester, England, between July 1963 and October 1965.

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Murder of Michael McGurk

The murder of Michael McGurk was an Australian contract killing.

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National Library of Scotland

The National Library of Scotland (NLS; Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba; Naitional Leebrar o Scotland) is one of the country's National Collections.

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Ninian

Ninian is a Christian saint, first mentioned in the 8th century as being an early missionary among the Pictish peoples of what is now Scotland.

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No Mean City

No Mean City is a 1935 novel by H. Kingsley Long, a journalist, and Alexander McArthur, an unemployed worker.

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Northampton Town F.C.

Northampton Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Northampton, England.

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Oatlands, Glasgow

Oatlands is an area in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Gorbals and Oatlands, Glasgow are areas of Glasgow.

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Oscar Marzaroli

Oscar Marzaroli (1933 – August 26, 1988) was an Italian-born Scottish photographer of post-World War II urban Scotland.

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Owen Coyle

Owen Columba Coyle (born 14 July 1966) is a professional football manager and former player who is currently the head coach of Indian Super League club Chennaiyin.

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Paddy Connolly

Patrick Connolly (born 25 June 1970) is a Scottish football player and coach.

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Pat Crerand

Patrick Timothy Crerand (born 19 February 1939) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a right half.

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Philippa York

Philippa York (born Robert Millar on 13 September 1958) is a Scottish journalist and former professional road racing cyclist.

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Piers Gough

Piers Gough (born 24 April 1946) is an architect in the practice CZWG.

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Pinkerton (detective agency)

Pinkerton is a private security guard and detective agency established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born American cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co. and finally the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

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Politics of Glasgow

The politics of Glasgow, Scotland's largest city by population, are expressed in the deliberations and decisions of Glasgow City Council, in elections to the council, the Scottish Parliament and the UK Parliament.

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Pollokshaws

Pollokshaws (Powkshaws) is an area on the South side of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Gorbals and Pollokshaws are areas of Glasgow and burghs.

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Postmodern architecture

Postmodern architecture is a style or movement which emerged in the late 1950s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the international style advocated by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock.

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Power loom

A power loom is a mechanized loom, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution.

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Preston North End F.C.

Preston North End Football Club, commonly referred to as Preston, North End or PNE, is a professional association football club in Preston, Lancashire, England.

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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel; 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s.

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Pub

A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.

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Public art

Public art is art in any media whose form, function and meaning are created for the general public through a public process.

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Public housing

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local.

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Ralph Glasser

Ralph Glasser (3 April 1916 – 6 March 2002) was a Scottish psychologist, economist, advisor to developing countries and author of a highly praised autobiographical quartet.

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Rector (ecclesiastical)

A rector is, in an ecclesiastical sense, a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations.

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Red Dwarf

Red Dwarf is a British science fiction comedy series created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, consisting of a sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999, and on Dave since 2009, gaining a cult following.

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Reformation

The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.

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Regality

A regality was a territorial jurisdiction in old Scots law which might be created by the King or Queen only, by granting lands to a subject in liberam regalitatem, and the tract of land over which such a right extended.

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River Clyde

The River Clyde (Abhainn Chluaidh,, Clyde Watter, or Watter o Clyde) is a river that flows into the Firth of Clyde, in the west of Scotland.

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Robert Helpmann

Sir Robert Murray Helpmann CBE (Helpman, 9 April 1909 – 28 September 1986) was an Australian ballet dancer, actor, director, and choreographer.

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Robert Matthew

Sir Robert Hogg Matthew, OBE FRIBA FRSE (12 December 1906 – 2 June 1975) was a Scottish architect and a leading proponent of modernism.

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Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson (born 6 January 1955) is an English actor, comedian and writer.

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RuPaul's Drag Race UK

RuPaul's Drag Race UK is a British reality competition television series based on the American television series of the same name.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Kitts and Nevis, officially the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, is an island country consisting of the two islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis, both located in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands chain of the Lesser Antilles.

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Scots language

ScotsThe endonym for Scots is Scots.

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Scottish Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic (endonym: Gàidhlig), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland.

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Scottish Highlands

The Highlands (the Hielands; a' Ghàidhealtachd) is a historical region of Scotland.

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Shades of Grey: Glasgow, 1956–1986

Shades of Grey: Glasgow, 1956-86 is a book of photographs by Oscar Marzaroli with an essay by William McIlvanney.

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Southern Necropolis

The Southern Necropolis is a cemetery in the Gorbals district of southern Glasgow, Scotland.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.

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The Thick of It

The Thick of It is a British comedy television series created, written and directed by Armando Iannucci that satirises the inner workings of British government.

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Thomas Lipton

Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet (10 May 18482 October 1931) was a Scotsman of Ulster-Scots parentage who was a self-made man, as company founder of Lipton Tea, merchant, philanthropist and yachtsman who lost 5 straight America's Cup races.

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Tithe

A tithe (from Old English: teogoþa "tenth") is a one-tenth part of something, paid as a contribution to a religious organization or compulsory tax to government.

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Tommy Docherty

Thomas Henderson Docherty (24 April 1928 – 31 December 2020), commonly known as The Doc, was a Scottish football player and manager.

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Tour de France

The Tour de France is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race held primarily in France.

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Tradeston

Tradeston is a small district in the Scottish city of Glasgow adjacent to the city centre on the south bank of the River Clyde. Gorbals and Tradeston are areas of Glasgow.

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Ulster

Ulster (Ulaidh or Cúige Uladh; Ulstèr or Ulster) is one of the four traditional or historic Irish provinces.

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Urban renewal

Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities.

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Victorian architecture

Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century.

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West Street subway station

West Street subway station on the Glasgow Subway network serves the Tradeston and Kingston areas of Glasgow, Scotland.

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William "Jock" Ross

William George "Jock" Ross (born 5 August 1943) is a Scottish-born Australian outlaw biker, best known as the founder and the "Supreme Commander" of the Comanchero Motorcycle Club and for his involvement in the Milperra massacre of 1984.

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William Rae (bishop)

William Rae (died 1367) was a 14th-century bishop of Glasgow.

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Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.

Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club (commonly referred to as Wolves) is a professional football club based in Wolverhampton, the Black Country, England.

See Gorbals and Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.

1922 United Kingdom general election

The 1922 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 15 November 1922.

See Gorbals and 1922 United Kingdom general election

See also

Housing estates in Glasgow

Irish diaspora in Scotland

Jews and Judaism in Glasgow

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorbals

Also known as The Gorbals.

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