Hi Alex - Lecturer at Glasgow here in City Planning. Thanks for uploading these. They were actually part of the curriculum several years ago but were taken down, so thanks for sharing.
I grew up in the gorbals in the 80’s so it was a trip to see the old tenements as the area is completely different these days. My dad lived in the hutch e tenements for a while before I was born. We used to call them the dampy hooses for obvious reasons.
Thanks very much Alex. Can’t take all the credit. Most of the recent videos are professional programmes captured many years ago. I have been waiting to upload them for a few years and now the opportunity is here now and great others have got the time to watch them and making it all worthwhile
I was born in a Tenement,top floor, in Toonhied, 1948, these were well built buildings, solid stone, though poorly maintained by the Council, but kept as clean as possible by the residents, sweeping and chalking The Close. However they should have refurbished these buildings rather than pulling them down and replacing them with ugly high rise soulless places. I have relatives that moved to Cumbernauld, East Kilbride, Drumchapel, Clydebank, Rutherglen and Bishopbriggs. I left there in 1966.
Excellent film. The overall wholesale destruction of the old Glasgow is sad to see. The old tenements were I think fairly sound building and could have been refurbished and communities maintained .
I trust that Dr MIsra was given a Knighthood for his pioneering work to use dominoes to divert teenagers away from glue and heroin? What a visionary! :) 29:11 - looks like Batman met his match
Try to remember that this was the time of the Cold War and a lot of people in the 1970s and 80s thought World War III was coming around the corner any minute so social housing wasn't built to last if a thermonuclear explosion was expected. I mean these buildings were really just tombs for the radiation sick and dying when the war happened and so planners didn't take into account deficiencies in the design and performance. You were put there to die quickly and not live long and happily as you might have thought.
Evening Alex, thank you for uploading these videos. My father Andy passed away almost a decade ago and it was fantastic to hear his voice again. Would you be able to point me in the direction of the source material these videos. Thanks Andrew
A group of youngsters from Bridgeton got taken on a day trip to Blair Drummond Safari Park. The minibus stopped in the lion enclosure to let them get a better look. A couple of them nipped out the back of the bus for a fag. The Park Ranger came racing up in his pickup truck, yelling at them to get back in their bus -" can you not see the lions?!" "Calm doon pal. We're naw gauntae touch yer lions"
And if you all look to your left ladies and gentlemen you may catch a glimpse of a poor person in their natural habitat. Note the track suit bottoms, or "trackies" and hooded top by which they can be identified
Fascinating documentary. Informative, thought-provoking, moving. Thanks for posting. Did the city build the nature reserve that Allen and Angela were advocating?
@@alexglass Found it, thanks. Cuningar Loop in Rutherglen. Looks like a fun park -- very outdoorsy. I left Glasgow for Toronto in '69. By '73, when I was back on vacation, everyone else was gone -- East Kilbride, England, etc. Glasgow in the '60s was right out of MacKinnon's film Small Faces. Thugs on the streets, spraying Tongs Ya Bas on every wall. Thugs in the classroom, 'teaching' us. I hear that after being the European City of Culture in 1990 and hosting the Commonwealth Games in 2014, it's no longer the Ninth Circle of Hell that traumatized so many of us. (In my case, for life, it seems.)
UA-cam's the only place you get to see fascinating content like this. The BBC and STV seem to want us to forget the past. Wonder why.
I'm sure they do. You know it.
They want others to believe we had White privilege & never struggled.
Hi Alex - Lecturer at Glasgow here in City Planning. Thanks for uploading these. They were actually part of the curriculum several years ago but were taken down, so thanks for sharing.
If you need a copy let me know
Interesting doc thanks
I really enjoyed this time capsule on saying that it was mixture of emotions happy and sad reflections .Thanks.
I grew up in the gorbals in the 80’s so it was a trip to see the old tenements as the area is completely different these days. My dad lived in the hutch e tenements for a while before I was born. We used to call them the dampy hooses for obvious reasons.
Brilliant upload mate. Man even as near back as the mid 90s (there was still a Posso, Black Hill, Valley in Maryhill) Glasgow has changed so much
Those gangs still exist. If you're unlucky enough to knock over one of their domino tables you're as good as dead.
2:25 is shot at the bottom of Craighall road, just next to the Forth & Clyde canal.
That wee auld lady with no pals left around 😭
Absolutely fantastic uploads - thanks :)
Cracking content in your uploads Alex.. compulsive viewing
Thanks very much Alex. Can’t take all the credit. Most of the recent videos are professional programmes captured many years ago. I have been waiting to upload them for a few years and now the opportunity is here now and great others have got the time to watch them and making it all worthwhile
People were uprooted in every town from the slums to high rise blocks and new council estates
I was born in a Tenement,top floor, in Toonhied, 1948, these were well built buildings, solid stone, though poorly maintained by the Council, but kept as clean as possible by the residents, sweeping and chalking The Close. However they should have refurbished these buildings rather than pulling them down and replacing them with ugly high rise soulless places.
I have relatives that moved to Cumbernauld, East Kilbride, Drumchapel, Clydebank, Rutherglen and Bishopbriggs. I left there in 1966.
Good video 👍 cheers
Excellent film. The overall wholesale destruction of the old Glasgow is sad to see. The old tenements were I think fairly sound building and could have been refurbished and communities maintained .
Of course they were, still so many standing today, disgusting the amount of perfectly good homes that were bulldozed.
ONE DAY THESE GLASGOW PEOPLE WILL WATCH YOU TUBE..AND SEE THEMSELVES ON UA-cam WATCHING GLASGOW BLIGHT
I trust that Dr MIsra was given a Knighthood for his pioneering work to use dominoes to divert teenagers away from glue and heroin? What a visionary! :)
29:11 - looks like Batman met his match
Those boy's glue sniffing reminded me of preisthill
Try to remember that this was the time of the Cold War and a lot of people in the 1970s and 80s thought World War III was coming around the corner any minute so social housing wasn't built to last if a thermonuclear explosion was expected. I mean these buildings were really just tombs for the radiation sick and dying when the war happened and so planners didn't take into account deficiencies in the design and performance. You were put there to die quickly and not live long and happily as you might have thought.
Evening Alex, thank you for uploading these videos. My father Andy passed away almost a decade ago and it was fantastic to hear his voice again. Would you be able to point me in the direction of the source material these videos. Thanks
Andrew
Hi Andrew if you want to message me privately we can arrange something. My email is alex.glass205@btinternet.com happy to help
I think that Town Planners and Architects should have be accommodated in the projects they design and approve for ...hmm 5 years
Jimmy Grimes on guitar!
🤣 It's like a safari!
A group of youngsters from Bridgeton got taken on a day trip to Blair Drummond Safari Park. The minibus stopped in the lion enclosure to let them get a better look. A couple of them nipped out the back of the bus for a fag. The Park Ranger came racing up in his pickup truck, yelling at them to get back in their bus -" can you not see the lions?!"
"Calm doon pal. We're naw gauntae touch yer lions"
Mr Gibb died in 2012 aged 69.
And if you all look to your left ladies and gentlemen you may catch a glimpse of a poor person in their natural habitat. Note the track suit bottoms, or "trackies" and hooded top by which they can be identified
On a lighter note, the millennium done is on at 16.59
Fascinating documentary. Informative, thought-provoking, moving. Thanks for posting.
Did the city build the nature reserve that Allen and Angela were advocating?
There is a park as far as I am aware. Maybe not on the same scale but still helps
Check out Cunningha Loop
@@alexglass Found it, thanks. Cuningar Loop in Rutherglen. Looks like a fun park -- very outdoorsy. I left Glasgow for Toronto in '69. By '73, when I was back on vacation, everyone else was gone -- East Kilbride, England, etc. Glasgow in the '60s was right out of MacKinnon's film Small Faces. Thugs on the streets, spraying Tongs Ya Bas on every wall. Thugs in the classroom, 'teaching' us. I hear that after being the European City of Culture in 1990 and hosting the Commonwealth Games in 2014, it's no longer the Ninth Circle of Hell that traumatized so many of us. (In my case, for life, it seems.)
@@joecrozier3236 it’s completely changed for the better in my opinion. There is still a dark side.
Fo sho
The dog at 4:09 is dead .
Good
No it’s not, it was 42 last week.
Every weegie in this film are deed. The average life expectancy in Glasgow is 45.
Was this 1981..
I am sure it was 1983
@@alexglass. How do you know.
@@johnmckee7640 sure it says it on the film
The Real Eastenders
They are looking at potential clients as if they are animals in a zoo.
More hardship in Scotland 🏴 it’s getting as bad as Birkenhead now it is up there