Glasgow: A City Made From Miracles!

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  • Glasgow is a city of miracles and has been since its birth. Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey looks at Glasgow history from its origins and finds that it's foundations are not only miraculous, but exotic.
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  • @ScotlandHistoryTours
    @ScotlandHistoryTours  День тому +5

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  • @torrance409
    @torrance409 5 годин тому +4

    I'm an elder ginger (though now mostly white) haired American who has visited many major cities around the world. Glasgow is my favorite city. What I enjoy is that Glaswegians actually speak to visitors and are interested in other people. I met a cab driver who told me all about his granny who had moved to the Stares and was then the oldest resident of Boston, Massachusetts. I must look like a local because visitors will ask me for directions, which I sometimes know. A wonderful place.

  • @PaulEcosse
    @PaulEcosse 5 годин тому +5

    Happy Birthday to Glasgow. 850 years old this year.

  • @annabellamarston448
    @annabellamarston448 12 годин тому +9

    Good morning Bruce from Jamaica. The burial by the Molindiner was one of the stories of Mungo that I was taught at primary school in Glasgow in the 1940s.We were also taught about the coat of arms and the rhyme about the symbols. I have heard that it is no longer taught in schools My grandad and other family members lived for 60 years in the building that carries the St Mungo mural. And many buried in St, Kentigern cemetary. It makes me feel connected .

  • @melissavancleave8686
    @melissavancleave8686 13 годин тому +13

    Goid morning. UA-cam always has Bruce front and center on Saturday mornings. Thank you Sir for another great video.

  • @alansmithee8831
    @alansmithee8831 15 годин тому +8

    A'reyt Bruce. A little bird told me there was something fishy with that story, but it rings a bell.

    • @ScotlandHistoryTours
      @ScotlandHistoryTours  15 годин тому +1

      A'reyt. Are you sure it's fish, it smelled more cheesey to me😜

    • @alansmithee8831
      @alansmithee8831 11 годин тому

      @@ScotlandHistoryTours 'Appen Wensleydale? Good on Christmas cake.
      images.app.goo.gl/vkbbx7hJWzbnJxMJ8
      images.app.goo.gl/L7Q6RyJspQHScqza7

  • @CorkScrewFacedCapital
    @CorkScrewFacedCapital 16 годин тому +3

    Lived in Glasgow a few years now, never knew any of this, very well done

  • @ninogaggi
    @ninogaggi 4 години тому

    Thanks for all your research, work and humour Bruce!

  • @Wee_Langside
    @Wee_Langside 11 годин тому +1

    I remember the rhyme, my dad was born in Govan and recited it most times we went to Glasgow.
    Thanks for another great bit of story telling Bruce.

  • @dayeti6794
    @dayeti6794 9 годин тому +1

    Great story. Thank you Brucey! 💙

  • @brikmoorhead4365
    @brikmoorhead4365 13 годин тому +3

    First King Lot put Tannis in a cart and rolled her down a hill, crashing into a large boulder and smashing into pieces. She was left untouched, and St Katherines spring in Shotts emerged from under her. Throwing her into the firth was second. Mungo built his mom a home called tannochside, and the gate into town from the west was called Tanney's gate. Tannis' younger brother, sir Gowain, was King Arthur's top Knight and has the most tales in the Aurtorian collections.
    Great stuff, thanks for getting me started.

  • @sandy7108
    @sandy7108 6 годин тому +1

    Thanks Bruce great video Glasgow at last

  • @raydriver7300
    @raydriver7300 6 годин тому +1

    You’ve got rather good at this story telling Bruce. Please don’t stop - I’ve become addicted 🌞

  • @charlottecomfort2446
    @charlottecomfort2446 8 годин тому +1

    Ahh ❤ the mural of Thenue in Calton is my favourite one, she’s just beautiful 😍

  • @brianconnaughton1734
    @brianconnaughton1734 5 годин тому

    Thanks for making this video Bruse

  • @BarryHWhite
    @BarryHWhite 7 годин тому +1

    i always thought St Enoch centre was named for Nohas Grandad !. Cheers Brucie boy, Saturday is always a schooldays.

  • @craigrobertson1039
    @craigrobertson1039 4 години тому +1

    According to Allison Galbraith's: Lanarkshire Folk Tales, it was Fergus of Kearnach (near St Ninians in Stirling) who had a Holy vision and waited for Mungo to swing by before snuffing it, leaving instructions to cart his body westwards into the badlands. They met 2 Christian monks (Telleyr & Anguan) who told them that he couldn't bury Fergus by the Molandear as it was a Druidic grove, but he did it anyway. And supposedly 'did away' with anyone who tried to practice the Old Religion there.
    Oh, and the chap that Queen Languoreth (Merlin's sister) had a fling with and gave her ring to, was the Laird o' Lee.

  • @tiffanyannhowe1712
    @tiffanyannhowe1712 15 годин тому +1

    Must be Saturday morning. Brilliant. Thank you Mr Fummey. 🖤

  • @etiennesharp
    @etiennesharp 15 годин тому +2

    Good to see the Antonine wall at Camelon/Tamfourhill. We used to play there as bairns and it only seems unreal now that we were arsing about in an ancient Roman fortification!

  • @murraywebster1228
    @murraywebster1228 16 годин тому +1

    Just watching some of your older videos and this popped up, good timing!

  • @macfiercesome
    @macfiercesome 5 годин тому

    Yer story telling jist gets better and better, Bruce, anithir stoattir, cheers.

  • @nicholahenry539
    @nicholahenry539 5 годин тому

    Hello Bruce thank you for sharing very interesting story. My granny on my mother’s side was born in Glasgow

  • @peterlaycock917
    @peterlaycock917 15 годин тому

    Thanks

  • @martinDUFC
    @martinDUFC 16 годин тому +6

    Fantastic! I moved to Glasgow from Dundee a couple of years ago and have always wondered where the phrase "Let Glasgow flourish" came from and why there is a fish on the citys coat of arms! When I think of Glasgow's history I think it as the city of empire etc. What a fantastic pre union..pre Scotland history the city has!

    • @MrScotty5877304
      @MrScotty5877304 14 годин тому +1

      I always assumed the fish was from the Clyde the most important part of the city. Without it Glasgow never would have been what it is now

  • @Satninsatnin
    @Satninsatnin 15 годин тому +2

    Love your wee videos, I really would have loved this type of Scottish history at school. Maybe I would have stayed at school instead of well you know just not going. I re-tell your stories to my grandkids they sit eyes wide open ingrossed in your facts. Thank you for sharing take care.

  • @shanegooding4839
    @shanegooding4839 14 годин тому +2

    The Folklore Scotland website gives a version of the dying man who was buried at the spot that became Glasgow. The sources they give for their info on St. Mungo are :- Jennifer Westwood and Sophia Kingshill 'The Lore of Scotland: A guide to Scottish legends' (2009), and Allison Galbraith 'Lanarkshire Folk Tales' (2021). Hopefully this jogs a memory for ya Brucey.😁

  • @gailsears2913
    @gailsears2913 12 годин тому

    Very interesting! Your memory and recall of names, dates, and places is amazing!

  • @TheLibraryChamber
    @TheLibraryChamber 12 годин тому +1

    Madainn mhath! (hope thats right!) Awesome as usual Mr. Fummey! I'm just facinated with that period of British history from about 300 to 800. That 500-year period is just frustratingly so very cool. My first intro was Robert Graves rendering of the Gododdin and The Quest for Merlin by Nikolai Tolstoy. That brief glimpse into that very fascinating North British Heroic Age hooked me.

  • @jimgillespie9739
    @jimgillespie9739 9 годин тому

    Always eager to watch your video and doubly happy its about my home city this week. Thanks Bruce

  • @AnnaAnna-uc2ff
    @AnnaAnna-uc2ff 4 години тому

    Thank you very much.

  • @gerrycoogan6544
    @gerrycoogan6544 13 годин тому +6

    By the grace of God, I was born in Glasgow (thanks, God) but I'd never heard the half of this history until now. For one thing, I had no idea that St. Enoch was a woman!
    Great episode, Bruce. Cheers!

  • @ianpattison841
    @ianpattison841 10 годин тому +1

    My grandmother, Nana, was a girl from County Clare who married a Northumbrian man who ran a shipyard on the Tyne that she took over when he died during WW1. She joked that the best thing out of Scotland was the road, but she loved the Glaswegians, probably due to her contacts there through shipbuilding. When I visit Scotland I always stay in or near Glasgow which I love, can not abide Edinburgh, full of entitled nobodies who like Londoners think the country owes them a living.

  • @Sammyandbobsdad
    @Sammyandbobsdad 5 годин тому +3

    But the real question. The noble Celtics or the vile Rangers?

  • @dominictoye4954
    @dominictoye4954 15 годин тому +2

    My primary school in Airdrie is called Saint Serfs

  • @R2Zmedia
    @R2Zmedia 14 годин тому +1

    My Mum spent 9 years of her childhood in Glasgow, I bet she knew that rhyme too.

  • @fijack4290
    @fijack4290 4 години тому

    Great story, Bruce. Pity you weren't my history teacher at school; I would have learned something! Tioraidh an dràsta.

  • @halorail
    @halorail 12 годин тому

    Great Job, thanks

  • @brucestuart7255
    @brucestuart7255 14 годин тому +1

    The story of Mungo and his funeral cart may have come from the book "Druid Sacrifice" by Nigel Tranter. Who was a brilliant story teller. Not sure where he got the story from - he may have used a bit of 'poetic licence'. Either way it's still worth a read.

  • @johnpuntenney4596
    @johnpuntenney4596 9 годин тому

    That was very informative, thanks Bruce. I heard of St Kentigern, but did not know about St Enoch.

  • @TheEggmaniac
    @TheEggmaniac 47 хвилин тому

    Was the market on Thursdays, in the new borough of Glasgow, called the Barras?

  • @rossdocherty163
    @rossdocherty163 7 годин тому

    Don't know this man, but fucking love him

  • @callumgordon1668
    @callumgordon1668 16 годин тому +2

    Can we name check Limekilns in Fife as where you started your video? A pretty wee place in its own right.
    Excellent summary of early medieval Britain.
    Traquair also very pretty and worth a visit.

  • @malcolmmccaleb2638
    @malcolmmccaleb2638 12 годин тому

    Like your videos, keep them coming?

  • @davidarchibald50
    @davidarchibald50 16 годин тому +1

    Aye Bruce. A great story of kings, princesses and priests. Their real personas are lost to time, but we have their legends, and that's enough, perhaps...well if ye must top me up once more...

  • @helenswan705
    @helenswan705 11 годин тому

    magic story!

  • @paulrennie3819
    @paulrennie3819 12 годин тому +1

    Surprised you didn't show the St Mungo up off High Street.

    • @charlottecomfort2446
      @charlottecomfort2446 8 годин тому

      Have you seen the mural of Thenue in Calton? it’s beautiful, my favourite one ❤

  • @jameselliott4640
    @jameselliott4640 13 годин тому

    It’s certainly true that many Glaswegians like myself of a certain vintage know the rhyme, but equally not many will know the full story unless they were lucky in the teachers they had of watch this excellent video. I wonder if children these days are taught about how my home city came to be? As always thanks 🙏 for your sharing of the knowledge.

  • @weegiewarbler
    @weegiewarbler 10 годин тому +1

    Trap-rain law. Not taripan... ? Lived across from it for yonks.

  • @marklittle8805
    @marklittle8805 11 годин тому

    I always thought Mungo was a nickname (my first reference to a Mungo is Mungo Park of Musselburgh; one of the first pro golfers). The things I learn. I need to get to Scotland....

  • @colinp2238
    @colinp2238 16 годин тому +1

    Hi Bruce. I have often thought about visiting Glasgow. I nearly did a few years ago to visit an old army buddy, but he succumbed to cance. My only concern these days is accessibility. Can you please tell me how I can research the sites that maybe available to me? I am considering hiring your talents for a day as I did in Ayr.

    • @ScotlandHistoryTours
      @ScotlandHistoryTours  15 годин тому +2

      If you're meaning accessibility I'm guessing that most modern tourist attractions will have that. I'm guessing websites will confirm. Look at the hop on hop off bus routes for an indicator of some of the groovy places to visit

    • @colinp2238
      @colinp2238 15 годин тому +1

      @ScotlandHistoryTours Thanks, I'll follow that up.

  • @shugharries
    @shugharries 10 годин тому

    Have ye read Finding Merlin, by Adam Ardrey, Bruce ? Makes some interesting points.
    Nae mention of Dunbar swimming pool car park, however 😄

  • @ppavery
    @ppavery 14 годин тому

    I read that story in one of Alistair moffets books I'm pretty sure

  • @riboid
    @riboid 5 годин тому

    Bruce, whats the suv you are driving? Ita nice. Kia?

  • @DH.2016
    @DH.2016 13 годин тому

    Another school day for me (and "like" emoji duly clicked) but, naughty boy, Bruce! Not saying it out loud but suggesting in the subtitles that the name of the Queen of Alt Clut was something else that rhymes with dagger! ☺

    • @ScotlandHistoryTours
      @ScotlandHistoryTours  11 годин тому

      🤣That was in originally, but we took it out in the editing. I just forgot to edit the subtitles. Well spotted. Now it's changed

    • @DH.2016
      @DH.2016 11 годин тому

      @@ScotlandHistoryTours 😄 (I thought that was the case)

  • @bobsteele9581
    @bobsteele9581 12 годин тому

    Another fantastic video Bruce.
    Anyway - now that we know all about Mungo, how about Mary and Midge? (If you know, you know 😉) 😂😂😂

  • @billmmckelvie5188
    @billmmckelvie5188 9 годин тому

    Aye and they've got Triffid cones for Horses. Looks like they're up to their necks in them!

  • @cennethadameveson3715
    @cennethadameveson3715 10 годин тому

    I was hoping the princess was going to be St Sauchie! Which begs the question what or where was Sauchiehall?

    • @glasgowjj0007
      @glasgowjj0007 8 годин тому

      The sauchie haugh or willow meadow from which the street derives its name was probably a low-lying area

  • @davidwatson7604
    @davidwatson7604 15 годин тому +1

    This is a comment for the Algo boost!

  • @garymacdonald7165
    @garymacdonald7165 12 годин тому +11

    Somebody pass this on to GCC because those muppets dont have a clue about the history of the "High street" and thats why theve turned it in to a total embarrassment!

    • @johnfitzpatrick4007
      @johnfitzpatrick4007 4 години тому

      Aye and Labour were a ray of sunshine when they were in charge.Put the country in debt to £32billion with ppi,and JackieBaillie paying out £2.5 milli to lawyers so that woman wouldn’t have equal pay.Reading too many colonial papers.

  • @leoniegray6404
    @leoniegray6404 13 годин тому

    Thank you . ❤ .

  • @gijgij4541
    @gijgij4541 8 годин тому

    So, if it hadn't been the Nordic's, sailing out of Dublin, sacking Alt Clut / Dumbarton Rock / Dumbarton Castle, driving things fifteen miles eastwards to what became Glasgae, Dumbarton would now be on everybody's map?
    Which, if you look at its location, history (crannogs, river Leven, capital of Strathclyde, glass making, building the Cutty Sark, Denny's, Flying Boats, experimental hovercraft, Westclox, Ballentine's whisky) and its glorious surroundings it should be, rather than the scruff hole-it has been for the last seventy years...

  • @kentait66
    @kentait66 14 годин тому

    💙Love the video!🫵😎👍
    💙Love "The Kingdom!"🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
    💙Love Culross...
    (🤭Had many a pint at The Red Lion!)🍻😂👍
    ... but "Glasgow's miles better!"☺️👍

  • @brianmchugh7679
    @brianmchugh7679 2 години тому

    13:02 You missed one mural (In the Calton)... ua-cam.com/video/Jull_2PwPvI/v-deo.html St Mungo's mum was called St Thenue, as well as St Enoch.
    ...Ah, you did go on to mention St Enoch, to your credit. 😀...you still missed the Mural though. 😉

  • @grahamfraser7918
    @grahamfraser7918 15 годин тому +1

    First video watched in a wee while and as always great one. Have to go back for a catch up 😂

  • @Sanctuary.Garden.D24
    @Sanctuary.Garden.D24 8 годин тому

    cuntais an-eolach ar an stair seo. Bruce. You should maybe write a book, brother. 🤔 Great history channel this is. Glasgow is a amazing City.. 💯👍

  • @RoberttheFox0001
    @RoberttheFox0001 11 годин тому

    well, who doesn't love miracles?

  • @jamesrussell5709
    @jamesrussell5709 40 секунд тому

    Every person in Scotland today must surely acknowledge that John Knox formed the Scotland we know today. To all Scots, Catholic or Protestant, everyone christians. Emperor Consntantine or John Knox , the lord Jesus is our saviour. One word is true..the word of the new testemont.

  • @fionatinker23
    @fionatinker23 14 годин тому

    Ach, ye missed yer chance tae spread the wird: Haughmagandy 😅😅😂

  • @TheDude-r5y
    @TheDude-r5y 7 годин тому

    What's with the 13 dislikes...?~?~?

  • @adrianjones8060
    @adrianjones8060 6 годин тому

    Your Brythonic/ Cymraeg pronunciation would benefit from understanding how ‘u’ is pronounced in Welsh… it’s basically ‘ugh’ and you have to stick your tongue out when you say it .! Also LL is pronounced by blowing air though the side of your mouth…Allt Clud ( the hill of the Clyde) sounds a lot better this way. Rhydderch Haul ( haul means generous/ giving) of Glas Gae (the Blue Field) is a common ancestor to us too. Diolch yn fawr …diddorol iawn 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿