“They were only supposed to last 40 years anyway” said Andy, demolition contractor and Sighthill resident, as we viewed the city from the rooftop of the Fountainwell Terrace block. “It was a great place to grow up, as a child but now it’s a wee bit different.” Disappearing Glasgow

”When I started documenting Dalmarnock, much of it was a ghost town. Deindustrialization in the 1960s and 1970s had left the area in ruins. Once a thriving community, and the engine room of Glasgow’s industrial might, its population decreased from 50,000 in the 1950s to around 2000.” Chris Leslie, Disappearing Glasgow