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A different world
THE REALITY CHECK II
Islay McLeod's photo essay from Springburn, a few minutes from Glasgow city centre
 It's the Sunday of a big Celtic game – crowds gather outside local pubs |
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 Once Springburn built railway locomotives for the world. Now it feels more like the end of the line |
 Yet some of the housing has been improved – well, modernised at least |
 Springburn leisure centre |
 But despite the facilities, it remains one of the poorest places in Britain |
 Nowhere poorer than in the notorious Red Road estate |
 Opposite that block, someone still cares – a man picking up weeds outside a pub |
 Evidence too of social activism, as Springburn campaigns to keep a primary school open |
 This too is Springburn – right at the heart of it |
 But across the road, there's this |
All photographs Copyright Institute of Contemporary Scotland, 2009
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