My Papa Tommy Matthews was born in Broomloan Road in 1933. He sadly has dimmentia, but we are watching this just now and he has a wee happy tear in his eye, we have him back to his old self, even if it's only for the length of this show. Thank you so much for your fantastic video.
Please no bad comments. I was a missionary in Govan for nearly a year in 1984. I made lifelong friends. The neighborhood boys signed their union Jack and gave it to me. Tommy and Kingy and a few others. My heart I left on Govan. I lived off of Paisley Road West. Next to the church that is now a climbing club now. Miss old Govan
What an fantastic watch, just brilliant. Thank you so much. My Grandmother was born at 20 MacLean Street, Govan and my Grandfather 77 Nethan Street. How beautiful old Govan was and such a shame most of it has been demolished.
My father also born in mac lean Street and so was I. We moved to East Kilbride with his job in the building trade in 1960 & into a brand new house & garden with an inside toilet. !
Great video, thanks. I have fond memories of Govan in the 1960s. My aunty and uncle lived in McKechnie Street opposite the Lyceum cinema. I was often in the Lyceum cafe on Govan Road. My uncle was an electrician in Fairfield’s shipyard and I sometimes went to ship launching. Great memories.
The calibre of people from Govan and the like are a threat to the establishment, their neighbourhoods need to be continuously dismantled and the people dispersed. Real people. Love from Liverpool.
Grew up in Mc Kechnie Street in Govan. My Parents moved to Pollokshaws when I was 13. I Fucking hated it there, to make matters worse I had to go to a new secondary school where I knew no one. Still go to Govan. I am an Architect living in Florida but spend six months of the year for projects in Glasgow. This is a great publication, I am well aware of Govan,s trials and tribulations it is still my home.
Glad you've still got your Scottish sense of pride, it's dying out now as the snp turn Scotland into another faceless diverse shithole. I'm in Aberdeen and in the last ten or fifteen years it's changed beyond recognition as we're replaced by Eastern Europeans, Africans and middle Eastern Muslims.
Great place, grew up in G3 and now live in g52 , served my appreniship in govan too, so always been in and around Sunny Govan. Great graft and industry and also great depression . Its always changing and look forward to see what become of the graving docks , half of govan shopping centre carpark , and water row. Going to work as an apprentice FLT engineer around 1996 visiting Kvaerner amongst many other neuks and crannies around the area introduced me into the working life and earlier memories of the garden festival are still vivid and fond
I loved this I was a wee girl there from 1955 I went to broomloan rd school loved it I lived in govan rd I remember all the street names in this video I fell in the elderpark pond which made me a govinite the Glasgow fair was great one of the queens even stayed in our tenement me and my pal used to take the ferry to the art gallery's. My wee pal went to st Gerard's and we went there for night school baking but when the priests found out I was a protest and I was not allowed to go back we moved to central Scotland when I was 11 it broke my heart ,
I was born at 93 Golspie street in Govan I'm a Govanite. Lived there till aged 10 and moved to Pete Road on Polock. Left Glasgow for leeds when I was 17. So many great memories. Including the local flea pit. Thank you for this much appreciated.
My grandfather and his family came from Govan. When I discovered this info I shared it with a girl from Glasgow the dynamics of everything changed. She "looked down her nose " from then on. She said my people were gangsters and dock workers. I just laughed and laughed.......
I love Govan use to hang around with people Fae Govan then went with a guy Fae Copeland road Ibrox ,people are always so friendly & I always felt welcome when I visited Govan
A pint of heavy and a brandy and babysham chaser . I could never keep up and I was a good drinker back in the day . These lads were experts and left me for dead !!!!
Govan is my second home, the people are wonderful, once they adopt you like a three legged dog they never let you go . I feel as safe in the roughest parts of Govan as i do in my own town . I left a part of my heart there so i have less to carry every time i return . God bless you all,
I nearly fell over when I saw this photograph of the girl in the middle of this picture. She is the spitting image of my wife when we were courting. Problem is I left Govan when I was 16 in 1962 to live in the Manchester area almost 60years ago. I showed my wife the photo last night and she immediately said she looked like her. I keep looking at it and thinking I wonder who she is. Uncanny.
Shaw Street boy here, now living in Romania raising my wee boy My entire family on my mum's side can be traced to Govan back to the 1850s - online records don't go any further back than that - makes me sad that my boy won't be able to say the same about himself.
My granny stayed at govan cross just next to the prego chip shop after living in tenerife for 14 Years we had to come home I los remember the gazelle bar in linthouse and summerton rd swimming baths ther was a pub called the rose shire and watsons bar fond memories
Many of those old buildings look "GRIM" , an aggressive pressure washing & spruce-up could have helped preserve many of them. The curved & rambling avenues and streets are quaint.
The only thing that makes me sad is when i hear a Glasgow accent and i mention it and they ask where i know and i talk about Govan and the voices drop , "ow its a rough place now " i hear that so much , everywhere has its ""rough" places but you can still meet and here the voices of the locals , give each other a chance fok , be proud of who you are and where you come from.
I live in Paisley but my mate Wattie worked in 'the yards' as a welder for most of his working life until he retired fairly recently. I'd never been to Govan until about a year ago but I've been back plenty of times since. If like me you are a 'tourist' in Govan, take a trip to Watson's the butcher in Shaw Street for a hot pie (hold the poke under yer chin to catch the grease) and take a a walk to the Govan Old Church (truly awesome), You MUST see the Govan stones inside, and check out the Pearce Institute, Brechin's bar, a walk in Elder Park and tale in the nice architecture. If you like a wee walk, you can walk along old Govan Road past the old graving docks with their colourful graffitti .... Old Govan Road, it's a lang walk. The old red sandstone town hall is now a fancy Film studio. Govan V Linthouse..... Naw! Please don't start World War Three. Me, I love a wee jaunt to God's country, Govan and my pal Yvonne bought ne two Watson's pie's yesterday, so I'm 'pure sorted'..
I WAS BORN AND BROUGHT UP IN GOVAN AND THANKFULLY HAD PARENTS WHO TAUGHT ME THAT ALL MEN ARE EQUAL, I DO HOPE PEOPLE REALISE THIS IS YOUR OPINION,AND NOT THE ATTITUDE OF ALL GOOD GOVAN PEOPLE
Never even try and lose it , always be proud of who you are and where you come from . It would break my heart to lose my accent. It's the ones that have nothing to identify them , they could come from anywhere.
My mother was born in Blackburn street. Father in Copland road. Chrissie and John Lee. Moved to Renfrew to move into railway tenement. Ten of them stayed in Copland road. Imagine. Susan lee
The Govan Graving Docks are still there ( I was there on Monday 2nd Nov 2015), so how can the 'BBC/Science centre stand on their site ? -- search UA-cam for 'Govan Graving Docks' by Martin McCarthy that was filmed last year.
Ma good uncle was born and raised in Govan worked in Fairfields Yard to the late 90s and moved from Hutton Drive to the Tyne ,mainly where the work was for a fitter and good grafter. Not only working in the Fairfield he also used the Club and was a great compare but like most passed away with asbestosis and very sad for a man so good at what he did and yet the best and funniest man on earth ...Jimmy Nicol God Bless
Does anyone know about the basement in the Old Govan Arms? I know people went to it up to at least 5 years ago. Don't know whether to belive them or not
Lived in Govanhill now known as Govanhell....used to be a great place...ffs who is responsible??? eastern europeans and asian landlords to be honest......
Govan Wine Alley - more revisionism - why did Govan people hate Wine Alley - even in 60s I remember it - 'outsiders' - btw. contrary to the nonsense talked now, It had NOTHING to do with anti-Irish anti-catholic anything. Govan was taken over (& Partick) in 1913 by Glasgow. A large green area to the east of the Govan railway sidings, was zoned for Housing. Glasgow would at last build Houses in Govan, they built the Wine Alley - then filled it with Glaswegians. - another nonsense modern 'fake' story about Our area, 'Plantation' was known as Plantation, long before any family with Slave connections, bought the land. But don't let truth get in the Way of an agenda
@@l3awjawz another Myth - that Plantations (KP) name has anything to do with Slavery, it was named that long before Family that had ties to West Indies, bought land It was called 'Plantation' because of trees for Coppicing, on the old military maps of area. long before 19th century
@@awilson5398 Cheers for the reply mate, though my question is about the Wine Alley, which many Govan locals appeared to stigmatise, even though their own neighbourhood had all the same problems.
@@l3awjawz I didn't know all of this. Can I ask you what u know or heard about Plantation. Do u know where abouts it is. I'm 66 my father born in mac lean Street I remember them talking about Plantation ? I might be wrong. Was it a park.
acomefae Govan even ma doctor wis called Dr Govan efter him it wis Maguire !!Happy Days In Sunny Go van oan ra Costa Dell Clyde !! An Old Govanite fae ra Winey
It's hard to believe now that Britain once was an industrial powerhouse , nobody will invest in Britain because of the Union anarchy of the past , but the rest of Europe still manufactures everything they have always done .
you need to DOWNLOAD THIS VIIDEO IN 720PP using a website called keepvid. this will transfer this video to a video file on your computer. then you can insert a disc and burn it onto the disc straight from the file
My Papa Tommy Matthews was born in Broomloan Road in 1933. He sadly has dimmentia, but we are watching this just now and he has a wee happy tear in his eye, we have him back to his old self, even if it's only for the length of this show. Thank you so much for your fantastic video.
Please no bad comments. I was a missionary in Govan for nearly a year in 1984. I made lifelong friends. The neighborhood boys signed their union Jack and gave it to me. Tommy and Kingy and a few others. My heart I left on Govan. I lived off of Paisley Road West. Next to the church that is now a climbing club now. Miss old Govan
Merrick gardens I lived on . Small world
What an fantastic watch, just brilliant. Thank you so much. My Grandmother was born at 20 MacLean Street, Govan and my Grandfather 77 Nethan Street.
How beautiful old Govan was and such a shame most of it has been demolished.
My father also born in mac lean Street and so was I. We moved to East Kilbride with his job in the building trade in 1960 & into a brand new house & garden with an inside toilet. !
I loved watching this, it brings back so many memories. Govanites we’re the best people!
Thank you so many stirred memories ❤️
Great video, thanks.
I have fond memories of Govan in the 1960s. My aunty and uncle lived in McKechnie Street opposite the Lyceum cinema.
I was often in the Lyceum cafe on Govan Road. My uncle was an electrician in Fairfield’s shipyard and I sometimes went to ship launching. Great memories.
The calibre of people from Govan and the like are a threat to the establishment, their neighbourhoods need to be continuously dismantled and the people dispersed. Real people.
Love from Liverpool.
Grew up in Mc Kechnie Street in Govan. My Parents moved to Pollokshaws when I was 13. I Fucking hated it there, to make matters worse I had to go to a new secondary school where I knew no one. Still go to Govan. I am an Architect living in Florida but spend six months of the year for projects in Glasgow. This is a great publication, I am well aware of Govan,s trials and tribulations it is still my home.
Glad you've still got your Scottish sense of pride, it's dying out now as the snp turn Scotland into another faceless diverse shithole. I'm in Aberdeen and in the last ten or fifteen years it's changed beyond recognition as we're replaced by Eastern Europeans, Africans and middle Eastern Muslims.
Great presentation. Love it. I'll take a another wee trip to Govan next week.
Great place, grew up in G3 and now live in g52 , served my appreniship in govan too, so always been in and around Sunny Govan. Great graft and industry and also great depression . Its always changing and look forward to see what become of the graving docks , half of govan shopping centre carpark , and water row.
Going to work as an apprentice FLT engineer around 1996 visiting Kvaerner amongst many other neuks and crannies around the area introduced me into the working life and earlier memories of the garden festival are still vivid and fond
Really liked it, i worked in shipyard and lived there in the 1980 's and 90 's
I loved this I was a wee girl there from 1955 I went to broomloan rd school loved it I lived in govan rd I remember all the street names in this video I fell in the elderpark pond which made me a govinite the Glasgow fair was great one of the queens even stayed in our tenement me and my pal used to take the ferry to the art gallery's. My wee pal went to st Gerard's and we went there for night school baking but when the priests found out I was a protest and I was not allowed to go back we moved to central Scotland when I was 11 it broke my heart ,
Worked in Govan as a social worker late 70’s till 87 great folk despite the poverty. Great photos and happy memories.
Did you meet the Nesbitts ?
Born in govan in 1962 , starting pulling it down in the mid 70 moved but always a govanite ❤ ripped the heart out of govan
I was born at 93 Golspie street in Govan I'm a Govanite. Lived there till aged 10 and moved to Pete Road on Polock. Left Glasgow for leeds when I was 17. So many great memories. Including the local flea pit. Thank you for this much appreciated.
I live 110
Simply "Thank you"❤
Linthouse resident for 10 years. This documentary is really great.
dae yi know chic ellis ?
Was married in 1971/ our first house was 12 drive road linthouse / the vital spark pub was my local
Me too. Greenloan Avenue.
My grandfather and his family came from Govan. When I discovered this info I shared it with a girl from Glasgow the dynamics of everything changed. She "looked down her nose " from then on. She said my people were gangsters and dock workers. I just laughed and laughed.......
I love Govan use to hang around with people Fae Govan then went with a guy Fae Copeland road Ibrox ,people are always so friendly & I always felt welcome when I visited Govan
Aye well ye should go way a guy and it will help u right oot .......coz ur better aff dainthat than anything else during g the week know ?
@@christhomson5542 ok no bother Kevin 😂
Aww - thank you for recommending this!! xxxmwahxxx
A pint of heavy and a brandy and babysham chaser . I could never keep up and I was a good drinker back in the day . These lads were experts and left me for dead !!!!
My dad may he rest in peace used too take me into the P.I for pie and beans everyday when I was a wee boy 😢😊 seems like yesterday
My family was from here fathers side , he passed in '16 a decorated British solder who come to the states in 1950
Great to see, thanks for that !
I don't recognise the city I grew up in anymore. All the industries around 40 years ago now gone. So sad.
bro, it's 20 20
Govan is my second home, the people are wonderful, once they adopt you like a three legged dog they never let you go . I feel as safe in the roughest parts of Govan as i do in my own town . I left a part of my heart there so i have less to carry every time i return . God bless you all,
Good to see govan getting new housing and regeneration born in the southen general so I have a soft spot for govan
I nearly fell over when I saw this photograph of the girl in the middle of this picture. She is the spitting image of my wife when we were courting. Problem is I left Govan when I was 16 in 1962 to live in the Manchester area almost 60years ago. I showed my wife the photo last night and she immediately said she looked like her. I keep looking at it and thinking I wonder who she is. Uncanny.
Enjoyed. I lived in 40 Harmony row from birth in 1955 until 1962 when we moved to Linwoid. Looking for photos of 40 Harmony row.
I WAS BORN IN TUECHIE IN 66 GOD BLESS.
@hillviewify teuch. 19 70 born and raised
My Grandfather was the Labour councillor for Govan in the 30s he was Baillie W G S Sharp a vert well respected man.
I would really like to try and find more info on some of the pictures. Want to see if any of my relatives are in them.
Shaw Street boy here, now living in Romania raising my wee boy
My entire family on my mum's side can be traced to Govan back to the 1850s - online records don't go any further back than that - makes me sad that my boy won't be able to say the same about himself.
My granny stayed at govan cross just next to the prego chip shop after living in tenerife for 14 Years we had to come home I los remember the gazelle bar in linthouse and summerton rd swimming baths ther was a pub called the rose shire and watsons bar fond memories
Does anyone know the name of this lovely piano piece at the beginning of the video?
Its Tappeing (piano Only) by Joseph Alexander
WHAT IS THE PIANO SONG ???
Many of those old buildings look "GRIM" , an aggressive pressure washing & spruce-up could have helped preserve many of them. The curved & rambling avenues and streets are quaint.
I'm gutted the new "redevelopment" is just the usual cookie cutter apartment blocks.
I wish the stuck with building new tenements
The only thing that makes me sad is when i hear a Glasgow accent and i mention it and they ask where i know and i talk about Govan and the voices drop , "ow its a rough place now " i hear that so much , everywhere has its ""rough" places but you can still meet and here the voices of the locals , give each other a chance fok , be proud of who you are and where you come from.
Neptune street was also called ''the Irish channel''
I live in Paisley but my mate Wattie worked in 'the yards' as a welder for most of his working life until he retired fairly recently. I'd never been to Govan until about a year ago but I've been back plenty of times since. If like me you are a 'tourist' in Govan, take a trip to Watson's the butcher in Shaw Street for a hot pie (hold the poke under yer chin to catch the grease) and take a a walk to the Govan Old Church (truly awesome), You MUST see the Govan stones inside, and check out the Pearce Institute, Brechin's bar, a walk in Elder Park and tale in the nice architecture. If you like a wee walk, you can walk along old Govan Road past the old graving docks with their colourful graffitti .... Old Govan Road, it's a lang walk. The old red sandstone town hall is now a fancy Film studio. Govan V Linthouse..... Naw! Please don't start World War Three. Me, I love a wee jaunt to God's country, Govan and my pal Yvonne bought ne two Watson's pie's yesterday, so I'm 'pure sorted'..
Was born and raised in Govan - my mum and dad were married in the Old Church as well.
I miss the place every day.
I WAS BORN AND BROUGHT UP IN GOVAN AND THANKFULLY HAD PARENTS WHO TAUGHT ME THAT ALL MEN ARE EQUAL, I DO HOPE PEOPLE REALISE THIS IS YOUR OPINION,AND NOT THE ATTITUDE OF ALL GOOD GOVAN PEOPLE
They should have taught you that some men are more equal than others
My Uncle John Rankin was M.P. for Govan some 90 years ago, later M.P. for Tradeston.
I was born in Drive Road - Elder Park was my playground
A Glaswegian accent is hard to loose
why would you want to
It’s predicted to disappear soon,just like the cockney accent,thanks to mass immigration
Never even try and lose it , always be proud of who you are and where you come from . It would break my heart to lose my accent. It's the ones that have nothing to identify them , they could come from anywhere.
All my Mothers family lived in Neptune St, aka the Irish channel.
My mother was born in Blackburn street. Father in Copland road. Chrissie and John Lee. Moved to Renfrew to move into railway tenement. Ten of them stayed in Copland road. Imagine. Susan lee
The Govan Graving Docks are still there ( I was there on Monday 2nd Nov 2015), so how can the 'BBC/Science centre stand on their site ? -- search UA-cam for 'Govan Graving Docks' by Martin McCarthy that was filmed last year.
I've been back twice in last month
Ma good uncle was born and raised in Govan worked in Fairfields Yard to the late 90s and moved from Hutton Drive to the Tyne ,mainly where the work was for a fitter and good grafter. Not only working in the Fairfield he also used the Club and was a great compare but like most passed away with asbestosis and very sad for a man so good at what he did and yet the best and funniest man on earth ...Jimmy Nicol God Bless
Well spotted A Wilson, BBC and Science Centre stand on site of Princes Dock not Graving Dock.
What is the Piano song at the beginning?
God bless govan 1916 club
Does anyone know about the basement in the Old Govan Arms? I know people went to it up to at least 5 years ago. Don't know whether to belive them or not
Will Ya No Come Back
Proud to be a govanite .
I Remember.......
Lived in Govanhill now known as Govanhell....used to be a great place...ffs who is responsible??? eastern europeans and asian landlords to be honest......
I live there cool
Govan Wine Alley - more revisionism - why did Govan people hate Wine Alley - even in 60s I remember it - 'outsiders' - btw. contrary to the nonsense talked now, It had NOTHING to do with anti-Irish anti-catholic anything. Govan was taken over (& Partick) in 1913 by Glasgow. A large green area to the east of the Govan railway sidings, was zoned for Housing. Glasgow would at last build Houses in Govan, they built the Wine Alley - then filled it with Glaswegians. - another nonsense modern 'fake' story about Our area, 'Plantation' was known as Plantation, long before any family with Slave connections, bought the land. But don't let truth get in the Way of an agenda
I've heard these claims before but never been sure what it was about. Do you know why inhabitants of the Wine Alley were viewed as outsiders then?
@@l3awjawz another Myth - that Plantations (KP) name has anything to do with Slavery, it was named that long before Family that had ties to West Indies, bought land It was called 'Plantation' because of trees for Coppicing, on the old military maps of area. long before 19th century
@@awilson5398 Cheers for the reply mate, though my question is about the Wine Alley, which many Govan locals appeared to stigmatise, even though their own neighbourhood had all the same problems.
@@l3awjawz I didn't know all of this. Can I ask you what u know or heard about Plantation. Do u know where abouts it is. I'm 66 my father born in mac lean Street I remember them talking about Plantation ? I might be wrong. Was it a park.
Iv left reply below if anyone can tell me more about plantation
GOVAN NO LONGER IS THERE
aye it is i work there and i came fae there
👍👍👍💚💚💚
The piano piece is by jerry lee lewis
acomefae Govan even ma doctor wis called Dr Govan efter him it wis Maguire !!Happy Days In Sunny Go van oan ra Costa Dell Clyde !! An Old Govanite fae ra Winey
Hope I see the cat on the building next to the shopping centre.
Does anyone remember the Fairfield dairy
I don’t
Great video, on yersel big yin
It's hard to believe now that Britain once was an industrial powerhouse , nobody will invest in Britain because of the Union anarchy of the past , but the rest of Europe still manufactures everything they have always done .
Can anyone tell me if its possible to burn this to a disc and how to do it
you need to DOWNLOAD THIS VIIDEO IN 720PP using a website called keepvid. this will transfer this video to a video file on your computer. then you can insert a disc and burn it onto the disc straight from the file
There old centenary looks better then our then nw
My parents moved us to
i lived in graigton rd fur 37 years
Really...?.
Rab C Nesbitt
Industries grow, prosper and at some point will fade away. They always have and always will. Nothing to do with Thatcher.
who is the pratt in the bunnet?what on earth does he think he looks like "gemmy"i bet.
Aye who cares mate seriously. fuck off away with you now.
ft9
who is that auld guy. stupid songs never heard that song about teaucarhill and I stayed there all mylife
Someone from Glasgow Heritage Group ??
B.
Worked in Blackmans
Stop shouting