Courtesy of Scottish Screen Archive

It is a paradox that while Glasgow earned the notoriety for the UK's worst housing conditions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it simultaneously boasted a larger proportion of urban parkland than any other city in the UK per head of population, earning the nickname 'the Dear Green Place'.

This was one of a series of nine films in the Glasgow Civics Series made for classroom teaching in the late 1940s. A text book accompanied the films, for teaching civics (modern studies) at secondary level.

Kenneth Broom

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