A widow had to flee her home as it started to crumble around her when this tenement in Oatlands partially collapsed in February 1960.
Workmen were preparing to demolish the building as Glasgow's Master of Works allowed families back in to retrieve what they could of their belongings the day after the incident in Gilmour Street.
Lillian Hill, 63, who lived on the top-floor, fled as her home started to collapse around her as she watched TV.
The wall just fell out as her niece and nephew Marion Dunn and James Kerr arrived to tell her to get out.
Workmen spent an afternoon removing furniture from eight homes affected, with the items being stored by the Health and Welfare Department until the tenants could be re-housed.
The families were staying with friends until new accommodation could be found for them.
The three houses below Mrs Hill's were unoccupied, after the people living there were rehoused just weeks before.
The property had been abandoned by its factor some time before and the residents paid no rent.
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