Barrowfield

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Barrowfield is an area of east Glasgow in Camlachie, close to Celtic Park, home of Celtic Football Club . It is an area of working class housing enclosed by main roads and railway lines, which consequently developed a distinctive character. The original 1930s council housing scheme (built to accommodate those cleared from Glasgow's 19th century slums) became increasingly hard to let and were demolished in the 1990s to make way for more appealing houses.

In the 1950s the area went from being a normal working class suburb like most other areas of the city to becoming a place renounded for its gangs,namely "The Torch" and "The Spur" both these gangs terrorised each others patch and the area was so violent it took up until the 1980s before the fighting stopped,this was due to the gang leaders realising dealing drugs was more profitable, unfortunetly for the community this meant the Scheme had hundreds of drug abusers from all areas of Glasgow coming to the area to buy their "gear",because of this the area has a high mortality rate amongst the youth,largely due to its drug abuse and suicide. The area has since gone through a massive revamp however the drug problem still exist in plague proportions and crime is still high.

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