David Leask

But GHA has now joined forces with other organisations and, as a group, they look way beyond city limits.

Glasgow Housing Association has developed a "family" of business interests across the Central Belt.

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the official transfer of housing stock from the city council to the organisation.

But GHA does so already as part of something bigger, the Wheatley Housing Group.

This business, which was set up last year, is now parent company of GHA, Cube Housing Association and other businesses.

Glasgow Housing Association was in and out of the wars even before it formally took over more than 80,000 of the city's old council homes in 2003.

That transfer was months behind schedule as the sheer scale of the country's biggest ever conveyancing exercise became apparent.

Then came what many insiders now regard as the inevitable politicking of a major new player appearing in Glasgow's establishment.

A girl pushing a baby buggy across derelict land against a backdrop of crumbling homes. Boys with nowhere to play standing in a filthy, vandalised close.

Glasgow used to deliver these images on every corner. Not any more.

Exactly a decade after the city's 2003 housing stock transfer much of Glasgow is unrecognisable.

Former city council leader Charlie Gordon today laughs about London news photographers who expected to come up with depressing pictures of Easterhouse or Drumchapel.