In this new series, we’re exploring Govanhill’s heritage, street by street – starting with Butterbiggins Road. Once an 18th-century hamlet for travelling communities, Butterbiggins evolved from a rural outpost to an industrial hub, and later into the residential street we know today.

Archives exist as a means to connect us to our past, whether personal, social or connected to a particular place or movement. Preserving these stories provides a chance to learn from what’s gone before. In this article we explore the personal archive of a former Queen’s Park Camera member and share some of the local archives in the Southside.

Dr Kate Wilson explores how radical community media from the 1970s and 1980s, including Castlemilk Today, The Gorbals View and The Easterhouse Voice, served as organising tools for tenant struggles, helped working-class to challenge power, satirised urban policy, and showcased poetry from local writers.