The Gorbals on the south bank of the River Clyde is one of Glasgow’s best known areas that has a rich history.
During its peak in the 1930s, the Gorbals had an estimated 90,000 residents but the area looks very different today with many of the high rise blocks which once dominated the skyline no longer standing.
Here are 16 famous faces who started off in the Gorbals.
1. Alex Harvey
Although there has been some debate about what Glasgow neighbourhood belongs to, he was born in the Gorbals in February 1935 and left school at 15. | Getty Images
2. Lorraine Kelly
Lorraine Kelly revealed that the first home she lived in when she was in a toddler in Glasgow was a single end in the Gorbals before the family then moved to Bridgeton. | ITV
3. Benny Lynch
Benny Lynch is one of the Gorbals most famous sons with the boxer's legacy, despite his sporting prowess, still being a divisive subject till this day. He began life in a Gorbals tenement flat in 1913 at 17 Florence Street as the son of John Lynch, railway surfaceman and Elizabeth Alexander. | Getty Images
4. Jim Kerr
Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr spent his early years growing up in the Gorbals around Florence Street before moving to Toryglen and attending Holyrood Secondary School. | AFP via Getty Images