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Glasgow - The Housing Problem
The official opening of the Housing Exhibition in Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.
Overview
By the late 20s the city of Glasgow had become synonymous with poor housing and its associated ills, with a large proportion of the population living in Victorian slum tenements. The exhibition seen here - opened by the Duchess of Montrose in the presence of Lord Provost, Sir David Mason, at Kelvin Hall - was designed to promote the Council's initiatives to improve the homes and health of the local people.
Kelvin Hall, Glasgow's multi-purpose exhibition centre on the bank of the River Kelvin, had been open for one year at the time this newsreel was filmed. Its predecessor, an industrial hall built for the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition, had been destroyed by fire in 1925. The Duchess of Montrose was standing in for Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, who was unable to inaugurate the exhibition as planned on account of illness.
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