It's been described as looking like an eerie scene from a post apocalyptic film, a beastly place where vandalism, drug addiction and prostitution were rife in every nook and cranny.
These days, the infamous run down Clune Estate in Port Glasgow is strangely quieter but that's only because the ghost town is finally being bulldozed into the ground.
Construction workers are now arming themselves with extra thick gloves and steel capped footwear to avoid needles and broken glass as they erase the landmark from sight.
Labelled the Scottish Chernobyl on account of its similarity to the abandoned Ukrainian town of Pripyat near Chernobyl, the Clune Estate had fallen into a spiral of decline.
After property values plummeted to almost nothing in the area following the decline of the shipyards in the 1990s, the few families that remained moved out and it became a drug and crime hotspot.
