AdvertisementIt was a desperately poor society where life expectancy was at 27, the lowest it had been since the Black Death. And these haunting archive photographs of Old Glasgow taken in the Victorian era between 1868 and 1871 documented the cramped and filthy conditions the poor lived in as they struggled to survive. The haunting archive photographs were taken in the Victorian era between 1868 and 1871‹ Slide me › A view of High Street in Glasgow, off which the slums were located, pictured in 1868 (left, compared to today, right). One of the major causes of the rapid overcrowding was large-scale immigration into the city for work in industry that especially involved the IrishBroad Close on High Street in Glasgow, pictured in 1868. The poor lived in alleyways known as closes and wynds, where several people would share a room with no light or toilet

Source: Daily Mail June 11, 2019 10:46 UTC