I'm researching someone's family history and like to put in more than just names and dates. The family were Irish immigrants and lived in South Coburg St and Hospital Street in the Gorbals around 1890. I've read loads about the Gorbals and to me it seems the area has been twice 'round the circle' - decay, demolition, rebuilding, decay, demolition, rebuilding. I've also read about overcrowding due to the influx of immigrants, with large families living in one room.
What I can't quite fathom is what it would have been like in those two streets in 1890. I get the impression that the family would have been living in a tenement built after 1860 and that those tenements will now have been demolished. But had the process of decay already started again in 1890? Were the family relatively comfortable or were they living in overcrowded and insanitary conditions?
Can anyone set me straight on the history of those streets?
Brodie