Growing up in Glasgow was so different from growing up in the rest of the UK, the rest of the world even - there really was nothing else like it, that's why today we wanted to celebrate a Glaswegian childhood by going back through 50 old photographs.
It was a very rough and tumble upbringing for most of us - regardless of which generation you came from. Childhood was a lot shorter - for a lot of Glaswegians school was a very brief period in their lives - entering the world of hard work and graft years before kids these days.
Many of us would have grown up in a tenement, others in towers, but wherever we grew up there was always a sense of community - always a new group of weans looking to go out and play.
Whether you were building a den or climbing some kind of structure you shouldn't be - we always found something to do in the city streets.
Take a look below as we explore the social history of a Glaswegian childhood in the 20th century.
Many of us would have grown up in a tenement, others in towers, but wherever we grew up there was always a sense of community - always a new group of weans looking to go out and play.
![A child looks at a baby in a pram from the window of a tenement block in the Gorbals area of Glasgow - the building has long since been demolished.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2023/03/31/09/GettyImages-3425129.jpg?crop=3:2&width=800)
45. Gorbals baby in a pram
A child looks at a baby in a pram from the window of a tenement block in the Gorbals area of Glasgow - the building has long since been demolished. | Getty Images
![A boy playing with dogs in a road of tenement housing in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. The tenements which had formerly occupied the site were among the worst slums in Britain and there had been campaigns to redevelop the area for many years before work finally began in the late fifties.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/02/29/20/09/GettyImages-3425132.jpg.jpg?crop=3:2&width=800)
46. Boy with dogs
A boy playing with dogs in a road of tenement housing in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. The tenements which had formerly occupied the site were among the worst slums in Britain and there had been campaigns to redevelop the area for many years before work finally began in the late fifties. | Getty Images
![The Buchanan family pictured at home in their new flat in the Gorbals area of Glasgow.(Photo by Albert McCabe/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2023/03/31/09/GettyImages-3270958.jpg?crop=3:2&width=800)
47. New flat feeling
The Buchanan family pictured at home in their new flat in the Gorbals area of Glasgow.(Photo by Albert McCabe/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) | Getty Images
![A group of children walk past a thirty story tower block at Birnie Court after it was demolished, on May 5, 2013 in Glasgow, Scotland. This was the second of eight of the Red Road tower blocks to be demolished, the remaining six high rises, built in the 1960s, are to be removed by 2017.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/02/29/10/48/GettyImages-168101592.jpg?crop=3:2&width=800)
48. Lost living-space (2013)
A group of children walk past a thirty story tower block at Birnie Court after it was demolished, on May 5, 2013 in Glasgow, Scotland. This was the second of eight of the Red Road tower blocks to be demolished, the remaining six high rises, built in the 1960s, are to be removed by 2017. | Getty Images