Edit What do you know about Calton?
Calton's most famous landmark is the Barras street market and the world famous Barrowland Ballroom, one of Glasgow's principal musical venues.
The area was a Burgh of Barony from 1817 to 1846, when it was annexed by the City of Glasgow.
The lands of Blackfaulds, on which Calton now stands, originally formed part of the lands of the Archbishopric of Glasgow, but were annexed to The Crown in 1587.
In 1705 the owner, John Walkinshaw, began to feu the lands of Blackfaulds (part of the Barrowfield estate) on which the old village of Calton was built, and in 1817 a charter was granted, erecting Calton into a Burgh.
During the area's time as an independent burgh, there were four Provosts of Calton: Robert Struthers (1817-1818), Nathaniel Stevenson (1818-1839), Robert Bartholomew (1839-1843) and Robert Bankier (1843-1846).
The area became known for its weaving industry.
On June 30, 1787, a meeting of weavers was held on Glasgow Green. Their wages had dropped because of the increased importation of cheaper foreign textiles.
Most of the workers decided to take strike action, although some accepted lower wages and carried on working.
The dispute came to a head on 3 September, 1787: when violence erupted after some striking weavers tried to seize materials from weavers who had carried on working.
The military was called in and a detachment of the 39th Regiment of Foot opened fire on the demonstrators. Six of the men killed at the scene were locally called 'martyrs' and some of them were buried in the Calton Cemetery off the main London Road.
The families of the men could not afford a headstone although, a century later, a memorial was raised to commemorate their actions.
Comedienne Janey Godley, in her 2005 autobiography Handstands in the Dark,wrote about the 14 years she spent running a Calton pub, the Weavers Inn (formerly the Nationalist Bar).
Her book details life there in the 1980s and 1990s, a time when the area became notorious for heroin abuse and when urban renewal began.
The area is also notorious for street prostitution
It is also an area of considerable poverty and multiple deprivation.
Calton has the lowest male life expectancy in Scotland.
Most of the affordable housing is owned by Housing Associations with a high percentage of tenants on housing benefit (For example Thenew Housing Association has approximately 75% of tenants on housing benefit).
Due to the revival of Glasgow city centre as desirable place to live, leading to rising demand for land and consequent overspill into surrounding areas, the Glasgow Green area has once again become a place for new luxury building development, as it was in the 19th century.
In the 1960s, an area of the Calton was known locally as Tongland, prominently marked out as such by graffiti.
I was born in the Calton 62yrs ago Sydney Street where the Wee Mans Pub was, went to St Mary's school. We used to sneek through the Meat market on our way home from school. If I remember right Wednesday was killer day. When I was home on holiday last yr I had a wee walk along the Gallowgate it always brings back happy memories of growing up in happier times I've been in Toronto for 42yrs now but get to come home every 2yrs for my Glasga fixx.
I was reading in the Times that Tommy Burns funeral is from St Marys chapel on Abercromby st, I was christened and went to school there, I hope the Times has photos of the funeral .
Please see today and tomorrow's Evening Times as well as the website, www.eveningtimes.co.uk
I want to thank the Times for the great coverage of Tommys funeral,from St Marys Chapel,The Glasga folk have done him proud ,the last time i saw that many people line the streets for a funeral was when Diana died,,
My sister just spent 2 weeks in Glasgow, she saw the funeral of Tommy Burns from St Marys Chapel, doon the Gallowgate walk into the Toon. Also doon the Barras, the Forge centre, she said there's no place like home [Glasgow]. Anne from Toronto,,