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Nine-year-old Annie McGuire and seven-year-old Elizabeth Martin were among thousands of women and girls admitted to the Glasgow Lock Hospital for Unfortunate Females, one of a network of Lock hospitals built across Britain and its colonies in the 19th century, between 1846 and 1947.

The two women and five men were convicted of a range of offences last year which the trial judge said plunged ‘the depths of human depravity’.

A still potent vision of a Glasgow family in poverty at the end of the 19th century, clinging on to hope

Venue’s return after delays and soaring costs will usher in ‘exciting phase’ in Scottish theatre, says artistic director