Gowkthrapple (Wishaw)

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Gowkthrapple is an area in Wishaw. It is effectively a slum, a plot of council houses and flats given to young parents, unemployed and general scum. New housing estates up at the top end of the area, near the Garrion Business Estate and Clyde Valley High, are more modern and are given to more "trustworthy" people. The council had, up until a few months ago, put off knocking down the large tower blocks, but now some action is being taken to destroy them and build new houses, and eventually replace all the flats with houses, although all the same people will get the houses that had the flats, so there will be no real improvement. It is known locally as "Gowky" and, by the more critical, "Smackhead Central."