Built in 1954, Moss Heights made history by becoming the Glasgow Corporation's first experiment in providing high-rise homes for working families.
They were the pioneering tower blocks that would serve as the template for residential developments in Glasgow for decades to come. And the best bit? They're still standing.
Originally the hilltop site at Berryknowes Road in the south-west of the city had been earmarked for 180 new homes in traditional three-storey tenements, but housing director, Ronald Bradbury had other plans. He felt the time was right for Glasgow to look skywards and construct the first multi-storey development.
Compared to the dilapidated single-ends of yesteryear, this was very much a luxury development and at the cutting edge of social housing in Scotland at the time. In the early years, Moss Heights appeared to be a cut above the majority of Glasgow's post-war housing stock.They were seen as hugely desirable properties and until the 1980s, when there was a drop in demand, would-be tenants faced a lengthy waiting list to be in with a chance of securing one of the flats.
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