IT'S a frustrating time to be trying to get on the housing ladder.

But an even bigger housing crisis was facing Glasgow in the year after the Secomd World War.

A combination of neglected tenement slums and the bombs of the Luftwaffe meant many families were living in dire, overcrowded conditions.

The answer was a massive building progranmme aimed at getting families out of the city and in to modern new homes in the suburbs and countryside.

Success was varied, with new towns such as East Kilbride soon thriving, but other developments, notably high-rise flats, less of a hit.

Drumchapel has not been without its problems, but in this picture, taken in 1953, you can at least get a sense of the ambitious scale of the project.