Explore Gorbals Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Gorbals plaques & local Gorbals history / heritage content through street plaque schemes (including Blue plaques, English Heritage & National Trust) plus Walkfo’s millions of audio plaques in Walkfo’s Audio Travel Guide to Gorbals.
About Gorbals
By the late 19th century, it had become densely populated; rural migrants and immigrants were attracted by the new industries and employment opportunities of Glasgow. At its peak, during the 1930s, the wider Gorbals district had swollen in population to an estimated 90,000 residents. This gave the area a very high population density of around 40,000/km².
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plaques Walkfo has converted physical plaques into audio files triggered by GPS on a phone when you pass close by on foot, bike, bus or car. You hear Gorbals history information & more at the places where they happened, with up-to-date content created by our AI, sourced from trusted history resources such as Wikipedia, local Gorbals plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Gorbals’s physical Gorbals plaque schemes with additional, more detailed information than the writing on the physical plaque. With millions of audio places / virtual plaques created across the whole of the UK, you can explore Gorbals the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Gorbals plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 409 unique history facts in Gorbals plus 74 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Gorbals history map for you to explore.”