I lived in Scotland for 2 years . Really enjoyed my time there in Greenock , Gourook , Dunoon , Glasgow and Edinburgh - such peaceful places compared to living in Chicago , wish I could go back.
My home town ❤🏴 So many good memories back in the day. Miss Burger King etc. So much has changed now including the Oakmall. I remember GAME etc as a kid and had Santa’s Grotto and you put your letters in. Was beautiful and should bring it back ❤
Greenock is a town that's been through very tough times for years . Yes, it's not very attractive ; there are lots of yobs / smackheads in the town and on a miserable winter's day it can look pretty bleak . BUT ...the town and it's people have a Spirit and a History that you can actually feel in the air . Greenock might be down.....but it will never be out ! ( And I'm not from Greenock before you ask !! )
You've made a nice film of a dreadful town. I worked there for years and it's a dump- the only place I've ever been where your neighbour from across the close might mug you. Two types of people live there: Those who leave as soon as they can, never to return- and those who will never ever leave. Man, I know the place.
Hello C. How are you? Not good by the sound of it.... I just wondered - how old are you? I was 20 when I escaped from Greenock after living there for my entire life. You CAN get away but it's not easy. You have to make sacrifices in your day to day life. This is how *I* did it: I was on the dole for more than two years. Every week in the year before I left, I put a very small amount of money aside - usually £1.00 or £2.00 (don't forget this was 1980/81!) and, after a year, I boxed up my vinyl (to keep it safe in the brick storeroom we had in the tenement) - which I came back for 2 years later- and, with my saved money and my giro for that week, got on a bus and headed for East Anglia. When I got there I rented a TINY room (10 feet long and 4 foot wide which contained a small table and a single bed and NOTHING ELSE!) for five quid a week!. I got a job washing dishes at a local pub and worked for months while living in that tiny room until I'd saved enough for a deposit on a flat. Got the flat, then got a much better job etc and that's how I did it. Better job meant better accommodation and better accomodation made it easier to apply for better jobs. I'm 63 now and have *-never* gone back (except for a brief reunion with old friends in 1983 and 1997). I escaped and YOU CAN TOO. Don't give up - set your eyes on the grand prize: *Freedom*. Good luck, C. and all the best,
Lived here my whole life horrible place completely derelict if i gad enough money would leave for good tomorrow norhing in it constant rain frey awful place
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I lived in Scotland for 2 years . Really enjoyed my time there in Greenock , Gourook , Dunoon , Glasgow and Edinburgh - such peaceful places compared to living in Chicago , wish I could go back.
Thank you for this 😊 I grew up on Inverkip Rd but left 30 years ago.. those cobble stones bring back memories 🏴❤️🔥
Lived here most of my days absolute toilet just full of scum and junkies trying my hardest to get out but rent prices elsewhere are shocking.
Home💙lived in Glasgow nearly 3 years, nothing better than visiting mum n dad and going to the Splash Cafe
fucksake need the credit card for in there
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@@Dic-yy1rj £5 for a frozen hotdog
@@MrMickSweeney nah man burgers are better. Its a cafe ffs not clarigies
Wieww.... Greenock... Love it.. I Live there for 3 years... A very nice Town... Please tell me where can find more videos... Thanks
The building you can see on the left at the top of Argyle St at 2:48 (Old Babylon Nightclub) is now demolished.
Thanks
Before the nightclub, it was a bingo hall mecca. Before that, it was a cinema ABC
I used to live in greenock but my perents moved to boring Elgin i wish we never left
My home town ❤🏴 So many good memories back in the day. Miss Burger King etc. So much has changed now including the Oakmall. I remember GAME etc as a kid and had Santa’s Grotto and you put your letters in. Was beautiful and should bring it back ❤
I was born in Greenock
Didnt film any of the historic parts of the town
Nice view and I like the music please tell the name of the song I really want to use the music one of my videos( is it no copyright?)
thanks, song called catch the wave by Velvet Moon. its on website epidemic sound.
3:05 nice but hard to read the captions before they disappear.
I’ve never been to Greenock but it’s a bit out of the way for people travelling north , they have a lot of railway stations and cobbled streets
If never left lol
yip its not really a tourist town dave.
Only Glasgow and Edinburgh have more stations. Unusual for such a small town
Greenock is a town that's been through very tough times
for years . Yes, it's not very attractive ; there are lots of
yobs / smackheads in the town and on a miserable winter's day it can look pretty bleak . BUT ...the town and it's people
have a Spirit and a History that you can actually feel in the
air . Greenock might be down.....but it will never be out !
( And I'm not from Greenock before you ask !! )
Nothing wrong with greenock it’s a great wee town.
Wing wahh fr the best Chinese yous should try it
You've made a nice film of a dreadful town. I worked there for years and it's a dump- the only place I've ever been where your neighbour from across the close might mug you. Two types of people live there: Those who leave as soon as they can, never to return- and those who will never ever leave. Man, I know the place.
How did ye get out of here alive? I hate living here.
Hello C. How are you? Not good by the sound of it.... I just wondered - how old are you? I was 20 when I escaped from Greenock after living there for my entire life. You CAN get away but it's not easy. You have to make sacrifices in your day to day life. This is how *I* did it: I was on the dole for more than two years. Every week in the year before I left, I put a very small amount of money aside - usually £1.00 or £2.00 (don't forget this was 1980/81!) and, after a year, I boxed up my vinyl (to keep it safe in the brick storeroom we had in the tenement) - which I came back for 2 years later- and, with my saved money and my giro for that week, got on a bus and headed for East Anglia. When I got there I rented a TINY room (10 feet long and 4 foot wide which contained a small table and a single bed and NOTHING ELSE!) for five quid a week!. I got a job washing dishes at a local pub and worked for months while living in that tiny room until I'd saved enough for a deposit on a flat. Got the flat, then got a much better job etc and that's how I did it. Better job meant better accommodation and better accomodation made it easier to apply for better jobs. I'm 63 now and have *-never* gone back (except for a brief reunion with old friends in 1983 and 1997). I escaped and YOU CAN TOO. Don't give up - set your eyes on the grand prize: *Freedom*. Good luck, C. and all the best,
Lived here my whole life horrible place completely derelict if i gad enough money would leave for good tomorrow norhing in it constant rain frey awful place