Spent many a happy time in Drumchapel. My Gran lived in Heathcot Avenue, the very last flat, top floor (the church end) which faced down the hill and with a view of the whole of Glasgow. Mum and Dad got married in Drumry St Mary's COS just around the corner. My paternal Grandad lived in Linkwood Drive, and we spent every Sunday visiting our Grandparents. We used to live in Linnvale and Mum used to walk with me to Drumchapel shops and back, when I was pre-school age. Grans house was just a short walk up the path on the hill. Dentist was in Achamore Road and Alistair Gillies was one of the dentists (the Scottish singer). Wish i could go back in time for a day... Mum's passed away, as have all my Grandparents but Drumchapel will always be part of my life.
Well you shouldn't! Amazing people and aweful people are born everywhere. The real value of a person shows in what one does in their hardship,not with their velvet cushioned privilege.
@@Mich-xs5vz I just skipped randomly to 11 minutes in and one of the woman is saying ‘many of our homes resemble dungeons, with walls thick with mould and slime’ once again , a horrendous place to live and put people
I was born in Glasgow first home Drumchapel. When I was training as a nurse early 90s having left Scotland at 17. My first university was Canterbury, We saw this video in a lecture initially I was embarrassed butthen I got a surge of rage and it was a huge motivation to me. I very quickly became nurse manager and have lived in England, Canada and now Cyprus. I went on to gain another degree and masters degree. I was adamant that people’s attitudes to me coming from Drumchapel would not hold me back. We can’t help where we were born but we can educate and work ourselves out those places if we want.
I was born in Cowcaddens and grew up in Ruchazie have lived in South Nitshill and Priesthill. Now I live in Nitshill. I have always been proud of the places I live. They may not have been the best but places are more than building. The people are more important
Big believer that where you’re from isn’t where you’re going or who you are. You see what’s in front of you .. you have the ability to make choices... I grew up with all of that around me in drumchapel.. I decided I wanted to be better than what I seen on my way to school every day .. I didn’t want to graduate from school to pubs to a prison cell .. so I worked hard .. and got out.
@@rossm685 thanks .. I just try to be honest as possible .. life can be shit .. lord knows I’ve had my own hard times .. but I own my decisions 100%.. Hope you’re keeping well, and the best possible advice I was ever given ... do something that makes you smile everyday ...and if you can’t think of what to do .. make someone else smile”
@@staceylang6382 no probs and thankyou , you cant argue with honesty and truth it's all that matters if your real and true 👍 I'm glad you said you own your decisions 100% thats class and not many ppl got that or want to even admit that 👌 I'm kl thanks hope your doing ok yourself pal 🤞 thanks for the sound advice and hope your smiling ❤✌
I grew up in the drum, happy childhood memories living there, when you were a bairn you never saw the place as being deprived. When I look at some of those images all I can think of is my old home, it makes me smile :)
Grew up there myself Claire tho I think it was just people's perception of Drumchapel it was the problem. In my teen years I'd go to places like Airdrie and the neds there would find out you came from Drumchapel would stay away from you.
I lived in Drumchapel for around 10 years, Katewell Av, Achamore Rd. Got sober. 1981. The most depressing time of my life. I moved away. To Jersey then London. Started to educate myself again. When I lived there al I did was drink fight. Get jailed. All in that order.
I lived there from birth until I was 20. Never got the jail or in a fight .. there is a lot to be said for circumstance and influences. I had family members in your position.. I seen the choices they made and what it caused for them and the family.. I just made different choices.
Moved from Partick to the Drum in the fifties and it was a brilliant place but it never had anything for the young people like football pitches but when they built the community centre at Essenside we all went there for the indoor football and the dancing and loved it, I still go up and see friends that still live there and I will always say I came from Drumchapel.
I moved to Drumchapel in 1953 moved from the slums of Glasgow and I was four years of age and I absolutely loved it. The adventures I had there were totally amazing, growing up I had no problems getting work, I actually found having the toilet inside the house was such a novelty I loved it. I actually left for Manchester for new employment in 1973 and to be honest left all my mates a move I have regretted ever since, but that's the trouble people will not travel to work they want it on their doorstep.
Never be ashamed to say where you're from, living in Ballina Ireland for last 23 years, Grow up in Drumchapel and went to school in stonedyke and the went to waverley secondary happy 😊 memories
I grew up here .In the 60s everyone worked , went to new schools , great young teachers , better housing and real opportunity through education and work. Good people let down by its leaders .
did used to run wild in drumchaple when i was 5 years old ,glue sniffers at the corner ,stealing my sisters bike before she got home ,my dad stealing the neighbours giros ,getting covered in gloss paint n my ma going nuts ,nearly getting drowned in quicksand,fighting people with bottles ,catching bees with a jar ,going mad treks to farmland ,list goes on
Funniest guy I ever worked with was from Drumchapel. His name was Andy and I knew him around this time. Went to a party here in 90 and it was super scary. Three of us were black belts and even we left early lol
I used to work in pollock I remember a woman walking past with a crying little boy of about 3/4. She said to the boy, “f@ck up you little...”. Then about ten minutes later a mother and father walk past me with a baby crying in the pram. The mother stops and and says “the ween’s crying because there’s no coke in the bottle”. Fills the bottle up with coke and then gets on their way.
Grew up in Drumchapel Summerhill Road then Drumchapel Road in my teens. Tough place and grim at times but some great memories too. Sad to see it disappear but inevitable.
i have memorys of staying at inchfad drive when i was about 5-6 years old -went to st lawrences school in primary 1 and lived in a close and glue sniffers would sniff glue at the corner-im 39 now
I used to steal my sister's Barbie bike and play in a like cycle ramp place prob away now I also got my first Kik in the balls coming home from school for being cheeky wae somebody that il never forget lol still remember the boys name David Murray-i was only 6 years old at the time and we moved not long after to England-mad memorys from drumchaple though and I went to st Lawrence's school
Just the way the woman says this at the end. Heavy. "Monday night and I'm sitting here wi a wee quarter bottle and I'm eh... I'm 29 and mah lassies are big and there's... ... there's fuck all. Know what ah mean? And where's the hope and the dreams? You think...(unintelligible) that you're a bit different from everybody else... And you're no."
It's believed amongst local historian's that Merlin or more likely that of 'Merlyn' throughout the 6th Century is believed to have been raised from what is now known as Drumchapel. Although it is arguable that 'Merlyn' eventually wanted to see an end to the 6th century bloody savagery from the uprisings by calling a meeting at Tintagel Castle at the request of the warrior bear King aka King Arthuret. All this can be traced back to the time of St Mungo or formerly known as Saint Kentigern. A time infact when Glasgow was referred to as Glasgu which was deeply divided in a bloody civil uprising over the spread of Christianity in reference to Saint Columba's mission to convert the Picts of Loch Ness towards that of Christianity. This served as a major turning point concerning even that of the land of Strathclyde prior to Scotland being officially born until that was when King Kenneth McAlpin took to the reign to ward off the Vikings from the west coast of Scotland despite numerous Viking raids in Largs throughout this time period. Although throughout this time during the time of Arthur or Arthuret who found himself surrounded in a civil dispute possibly serving as mediator in trying to quell religous tensions over 6th century Christians and Pagans although this is however still widely historically speculative to definitively say for sure given all antiquitous and archaeological findings to verify for certain. Not to mention this was a time when Viking invasions weren't entirely uncommon throughout this time period in reference to that of King Roderick Hael of Strathclyde's reign were regional King's and war leaders could be pledged to attend a Royal alliance meeting known as the King's Knot (thought to be the official Arthurian round table located at Stirling) in order to discuss strategies and defences in protecting the land from Viking raids thus resolving heated religious tensions and skirmishes amongst neighbouring tribes and clans! Hey who would have thought that Merlyn was a Glesga lad, minus the traffic cone! 🧙♂️😉
my first school was st laurences ,only went until primary 1 and we moved away to england ,seen some kid hit another kid with a hammer when there and stolen cars getting burned out and the kids playing in a burned out car.mad days
@@mariecoyle1413 nobody said it wasnt but its still a scheme that's been notorious for drugs car theft and violence since the 80s especially for it being a tiny place.
Born in drumchapel 1987 lived there until 2012 moved back 2016 , best child hood invercanny drive , don't agree with this yes it was a mess but what scheme wasn't ? I grew up with amazing people family , I went on to have a good job I moved back in 2016 and wouldn't leave again like all places it has it's good and bad what saddens me is the way the shopping centre has been destroyed
Blocks are stark and oppressive like a prison. Horrible sense of dismal dread as they loom over from hilltops. Seemed to be a thing with 50s planners and architects, taking no account of exposure to wind and rain and ignoring the shelter the landscape might naturally provide. Partly why these blocks look so wrong, we know instinctively that humans don’t settle on hilltops unless building a fortress. Growing up on the outskirts of the east end of Glasgow in the 70s and 80s, everything I see here feels so familiar, but somehow worse.
ua-cam.com/video/H_1Qbn-Hj3A/v-deo.html I remember this little park just near lochgoin school when I was a kid.. I remember a giant alsation that ruled the slide haha it would stand at the top and bark like fuck slide down the shoot then straight back up the stairs again and reset lmao.. that was a good 45 years ago though when I lived in the drum also :P
Wasn't even that bad lived there from 1974-1993, lived on Belsyde avenue, it wasn't as bad as the media made it out to be, they're treating it as if it's a war torn country, it was just full of bored teenagers and grimy tenements flats, it was exactly old Easterhouse or castlemilk, I loved living in the drum, if you’d actually went there you’d find that it was full of nice people just trying to get on with life and make a living.
Spent many a happy time in Drumchapel. My Gran lived in Heathcot Avenue, the very last flat, top floor (the church end) which faced down the hill and with a view of the whole of Glasgow. Mum and Dad got married in Drumry St Mary's COS just around the corner. My paternal Grandad lived in Linkwood Drive, and we spent every Sunday visiting our Grandparents. We used to live in Linnvale and Mum used to walk with me to Drumchapel shops and back, when I was pre-school age. Grans house was just a short walk up the path on the hill. Dentist was in Achamore Road and Alistair Gillies was one of the dentists (the Scottish singer). Wish i could go back in time for a day... Mum's passed away, as have all my Grandparents but Drumchapel will always be part of my life.
Grew up in the Drum, worked in the Drum, never been ashamed to tell anyone about my past.
Some decent folk there and some bams too.
Well you shouldn't! Amazing people and aweful people are born everywhere. The real value of a person shows in what one does in their hardship,not with their velvet cushioned privilege.
What an awful looking place
@@ElonTusks what an awful attitude! Jog on, pal.
@@Mich-xs5vz I just skipped randomly to 11 minutes in and one of the woman is saying ‘many of our homes resemble dungeons, with walls thick with mould and slime’ once again , a horrendous place to live and put people
I was born in Glasgow first home Drumchapel. When I was training as a nurse early 90s having left Scotland at 17. My first university was Canterbury, We saw this video in a lecture initially I was embarrassed butthen I got a surge of rage and it was a huge motivation to me. I very quickly became nurse manager and have lived in England, Canada and now Cyprus. I went on to gain another degree and masters degree. I was adamant that people’s attitudes to me coming from Drumchapel would not hold me back. We can’t help where we were born but we can educate and work ourselves out those places if we want.
I was born in Cowcaddens and grew up in Ruchazie have lived in South Nitshill and Priesthill. Now I live in Nitshill. I have always been proud of the places I live. They may not have been the best but places are more than building. The people are more important
@Rab McDonald oh my dear you have no idea about my background bless you.
@@alexglass I have family in Nitshill, Mary hill, Clydebank etc. I am not ashamed of my roots at all.
Kent had and HAS its fair share of slum area, and Yorkshire and Swansea.
Created by Tory and Labour Housing Departments.
@@brianclark8159 and wrecked by the people who live there. Or did somebody else come in and do it
not just the Drum,schemes all over Scotland,sad to say!
Big believer that where you’re from isn’t where you’re going or who you are. You see what’s in front of you .. you have the ability to make choices... I grew up with all of that around me in drumchapel.. I decided I wanted to be better than what I seen on my way to school every day .. I didn’t want to graduate from school to pubs to a prison cell .. so I worked hard .. and got out.
Your an inspiration pal 👌 I hope someone young or old reads this and takes note coz I have 👍✌
@@rossm685 thanks .. I just try to be honest as possible .. life can be shit .. lord knows I’ve had my own hard times .. but I own my decisions 100%..
Hope you’re keeping well, and the best possible advice I was ever given ... do something that makes you smile everyday ...and if you can’t think of what to do .. make someone else smile”
@@staceylang6382 no probs and thankyou , you cant argue with honesty and truth it's all that matters if your real and true 👍 I'm glad you said you own your decisions 100% thats class and not many ppl got that or want to even admit that 👌 I'm kl thanks hope your doing ok yourself pal 🤞 thanks for the sound advice and hope your smiling ❤✌
@Stacey Lang Well done. That's the way it should be. It helps if your parents set you on the right track too, regardless of where you live.
Got out too…… Blairdardie 😂
I grew up in the drum, happy childhood memories living there, when you were a bairn you never saw the place as being deprived. When I look at some of those images all I can think of is my old home, it makes me smile :)
Grew up there myself Claire tho I think it was just people's perception of Drumchapel it was the problem. In my teen years I'd go to places like Airdrie and the neds there would find out you came from Drumchapel would stay away from you.
I lived in Drumchapel for around 10 years, Katewell Av, Achamore Rd. Got sober. 1981. The most depressing time of my life. I moved away. To Jersey then London. Started to educate myself again. When I lived there al I did was drink fight. Get jailed. All in that order.
I lived there from birth until I was 20. Never got the jail or in a fight .. there is a lot to be said for circumstance and influences. I had family members in your position.. I seen the choices they made and what it caused for them and the family.. I just made different choices.
I was the problem.i made the choice to get sober. But had to move away from the area.
@@staceylang6382 Im from the drum still stay in the drum , your spot on pal 👍✌👌
Moved from Partick to the Drum in the fifties and it was a brilliant place but it never had anything for the young people like football pitches but when they built the community centre at Essenside we all went there for the indoor football and the dancing and loved it, I still go up and see friends that still live there and I will always say I came from Drumchapel.
I moved to Drumchapel in 1953 moved from the slums of Glasgow and I was four years of age and I absolutely loved it. The adventures I had there were totally amazing, growing up I had no problems getting work, I actually found having the toilet inside the house was such a novelty I loved it. I actually left for Manchester for new employment in 1973 and to be honest left all my mates a move I have regretted ever since, but that's the trouble people will not travel to work they want it on their doorstep.
Not billy brander from drunkenly rd by any chance🤷♂️
Lived in Ledmore drive 1970 till 1980. Moved to England , thanks Mum ✅
lol
Never be ashamed to say where you're from, living in Ballina Ireland for last 23 years, Grow up in Drumchapel and went to school in stonedyke and the went to waverley secondary happy 😊 memories
Im going in Drumchapel! Used to Live in Yoker !
Ma mum grow up here in the 50s and 60s ... what a women 💙
I grew up here .In the 60s everyone worked , went to new schools , great young teachers , better housing and real opportunity through education and work. Good people let down by its leaders .
It's 1989 and she was glad to get ootay there and back to Maryhill, she says. Lol.
A didny understand that either Maryhill of all places she says lmao 🤣
did used to run wild in drumchaple when i was 5 years old ,glue sniffers at the corner ,stealing my sisters bike before she got home ,my dad stealing the neighbours giros ,getting covered in gloss paint n my ma going nuts ,nearly getting drowned in quicksand,fighting people with bottles ,catching bees with a jar ,going mad treks to farmland ,list goes on
Why a people still living like this 2023? My Sister and her children lived there in the 60s and had to move out because of violence.😢
Born n drumchapel still live in drumchapel inchfad drive many gd ppl here
Great place to grow up in.Made friends for life.Helped me to move all over the uk with confidence.
1954 to 1975 Katewell ave
Do you know my mum & 2 uncles - Patricia, William & James anderson?
Hi! Do you remember the McGreevys? Jean, Vivien and Elaine on Merryton Ave?
@@SittingBearProd yes Patricia was in class at Cleddans Primary
We kept in touch till friends reunited packed in
@@KATYTOWNSEND20 no Katy
@@jamiebrown7390 Thanks anyway!
Funniest guy I ever worked with was from Drumchapel. His name was Andy and I knew him around this time. Went to a party here in 90 and it was super scary. Three of us were black belts and even we left early lol
My childhood. I love it.
Can remember when the shows would be at the football pitches next to the boulie
Was born in the drum 👍
That's your problem.
@@dcunningham2175 what problem? 🤡
Stayed in the drum from 1980 till the early 90's 👊
Nearly 35 years on and nothing has changed much.
YOU SURE
I used to work in pollock I remember a woman walking past with a crying little boy of about 3/4. She said to the boy, “f@ck up you little...”. Then about ten minutes later a mother and father walk past me with a baby crying in the pram. The mother stops and and says “the ween’s crying because there’s no coke in the bottle”. Fills the bottle up with coke and then gets on their way.
Stayed I the drum for 50 years and it's nowhere near as bad as it was back then when this video was made
Grew up in Drumchapel Summerhill Road then Drumchapel Road in my teens. Tough place and grim at times but some great memories too. Sad to see it disappear but inevitable.
i have memorys of staying at inchfad drive when i was about 5-6 years old -went to st lawrences school in primary 1 and lived in a close and glue sniffers would sniff glue at the corner-im 39 now
Portglasgow and greenock where i grew up looked the same especially after the shipyards closed the schemes where half empty all over the toon . Crazy
Big Delboy hope your well mate 🙏🏻❤️
My aunt Jesse and uncle donny macky was from the drum and my sisters man lovely people .
She couldn't wait to get back to Maryhill 😆 😂
Mate your vids are pure top banana!! 👍🍌
Thank you 🙏
Lol she stayed in Maryhill, regardless where you went in Glasgow if you lived in council you were in poverty
Grew up in the drum fabulous place
I used to steal my sister's Barbie bike and play in a like cycle ramp place prob away now I also got my first Kik in the balls coming home from school for being cheeky wae somebody that il never forget lol still remember the boys name David Murray-i was only 6 years old at the time and we moved not long after to England-mad memorys from drumchaple though and I went to st Lawrence's school
My mother grew up in drumchapel somewhere heard it was a rough area maiden name Kerr
Just the way the woman says this at the end. Heavy.
"Monday night and I'm sitting here wi a wee quarter bottle and I'm eh... I'm 29 and mah lassies are big and there's...
... there's fuck all.
Know what ah mean?
And where's the hope and the dreams? You think...(unintelligible) that you're a bit different from everybody else...
And you're no."
Left in 1988 as did almost all my mates, you left if you could
A township, a total slum
woooooooowsers. Finally the UA-cam algorithm does a good job.
Mate we have the same second name-
It's believed amongst local historian's that Merlin or more likely that of 'Merlyn' throughout the 6th Century is believed to have been raised from what is now known as Drumchapel. Although it is arguable that 'Merlyn' eventually wanted to see an end to the 6th century bloody savagery from the uprisings by calling a meeting at Tintagel Castle at the request of the warrior bear King aka King Arthuret. All this can be traced back to the time of St Mungo or formerly known as Saint Kentigern. A time infact when Glasgow was referred to as Glasgu which was deeply divided in a bloody civil uprising over the spread of Christianity in reference to Saint Columba's mission to convert the Picts of Loch Ness towards that of Christianity. This served as a major turning point concerning even that of the land of Strathclyde prior to Scotland being officially born until that was when King Kenneth McAlpin took to the reign to ward off the Vikings from the west coast of Scotland despite numerous Viking raids in Largs throughout this time period. Although throughout this time during the time of Arthur or Arthuret who found himself surrounded in a civil dispute possibly serving as mediator in trying to quell religous tensions over 6th century Christians and Pagans although this is however still widely historically speculative to definitively say for sure given all antiquitous and archaeological findings to verify for certain. Not to mention this was a time when Viking invasions weren't entirely uncommon throughout this time period in reference to that of King Roderick Hael of Strathclyde's reign were regional King's and war leaders could be pledged to attend a Royal alliance meeting known as the King's Knot (thought to be the official Arthurian round table located at Stirling) in order to discuss strategies and defences in protecting the land from Viking raids thus resolving heated religious tensions and skirmishes amongst neighbouring tribes and clans!
Hey who would have thought that Merlyn was a Glesga lad, minus the traffic cone! 🧙♂️😉
Thanks for posting these videos!
Im Growing up in drumchapel, used to live in yokerl
my first school was st laurences ,only went until primary 1 and we moved away to england ,seen some kid hit another kid with a hammer when there and stolen cars getting burned out and the kids playing in a burned out car.mad days
Grew up in a place just like this.....The Renton
Renton is a lot smaller!!!
@@mariecoyle1413 nobody said it wasnt but its still a scheme that's been notorious for drugs car theft and violence since the 80s especially for it being a tiny place.
Born in drumchapel 1987 lived there until 2012 moved back 2016 , best child hood invercanny drive , don't agree with this yes it was a mess but what scheme wasn't ? I grew up with amazing people family , I went on to have a good job I moved back in 2016 and wouldn't leave again like all places it has it's good and bad what saddens me is the way the shopping centre has been destroyed
I loved it in the drum
It looks better then than it does know
I lived in the Drum in the 80's then I served in Belfast I thought I was still in the Drumchapel only difference was the bombings.
Lovely
She didn't say at 6.00 that she was happy to be on the bus back to Maryhill to get out of the Drum? There's no difference 😂
Im growing up in the drum, kinda nice. :)
Anyone know the location at 10:33 that shows a mural of skylines on the side of a tenement?
I grew up the hill then down in lillyburn then summerhill
lived inchfad drive 87 ,remember the glue sniffers at the corner
society by design,by the elite
Looks like Rob Beckett in the thumbnail
The Drum was a great back then lots of character you could leave a bike out side and it would be fine, not now tho.
Was there often 1979-1984 never had trouble. Grim, though.
Blocks are stark and oppressive like a prison. Horrible sense of dismal dread as they loom over from hilltops. Seemed to be a thing with 50s planners and architects, taking no account of exposure to wind and rain and ignoring the shelter the landscape might naturally provide. Partly why these blocks look so wrong, we know instinctively that humans don’t settle on hilltops unless building a fortress. Growing up on the outskirts of the east end of Glasgow in the 70s and 80s, everything I see here feels so familiar, but somehow worse.
ua-cam.com/video/H_1Qbn-Hj3A/v-deo.html
I remember this little park just near lochgoin school when I was a kid.. I remember a giant alsation that ruled the slide haha it would stand at the top and bark like fuck slide down the shoot then straight back up the stairs again and reset lmao.. that was a good 45 years ago though when I lived in the drum also :P
Have you got the footage where billy connolly goes back to visit drumchapel either late 80s or early 90s?
Unfortunately no but I am sure it will be out there somewhere. Hopefully it turns up
@@alexglass ua-cam.com/video/db7XTg7YqRs/v-deo.html&feature=share
@@ml6cut463 thank you so much that is brilliant
@@alexglass no thank you for all your great content👍
public service, jobs for the boys
Wasn't even that bad lived there from
1974-1993, lived on Belsyde avenue, it wasn't as bad as the media made it out to be, they're treating it as if it's a war torn country, it was just full of bored teenagers and grimy tenements flats, it was exactly old Easterhouse or castlemilk, I loved living in the drum, if you’d actually went there you’d find that it was full of nice people just trying to get on with life and make a living.
SNP will fix it 😄
Can’t do any worse than the joke Tory party. Charletons
Makes me think of the desolation of the reservations created for native Americans. The creators of this can not be proud
I don't like Drumchapel and I dont like the people
How open minded of you ..
Idiot
Agree it’s appalling. All speak slang and it’s hard to understand them. Glad I moved to Bearsden.
Funny people in the drum would give you there last 5er people in Bearsden would steal your last 5er
@@mmyjido9370 I’ve changed my tune, Bearsden folk are middle class wanks with a stick up their arses the people of the Drum have more soul.