THIS is the kind of scene that helped to make Glasgow the Dear Green Place. Row upon row of allotments, all close to the city's Southern Necropolis.
The plots, known as Caledonia Gardens in the Gorbals, were carefully tended and had a wide variety of garden produce and flowers.
Those who rented the sites also had their sheds to keep tools and other items needed for their work on the soil. Indeed, the same things are still very much the same now for those lucky enough to still have allotments in the city.
The allotments, previously known as Albert Gardens, had been opened in 1854 but, sadly, Caledonia Gardens were coming to the end of their life. In 1961, the year of this picture, Glasgow Corporation decided the plots had to go because the five acres were to be part of the Hutchesontown-Polmadie redevelopment.
They were to be replaced by new multi-storey flats.
They, too, have long since been demolished.
Fortunately, allotments have made a comeback in the area in the interim, with the Oatlands Gate Allotments now in operation after being opened in 2011.
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