This looks like another example in Glasgow, of what is most likely a listed building, being opened to the elements so that it decays to they point where it can be declared dangerous, the protection rescinded and the building demolished. The developers can than get going on making a big fat profit, with yet another piece of brute architecture, and further demoralise, what was once a magnificent and beautiful city.
Reminds me of our club up Sauchie above NICOS we were given in 1988-1994 the chance to do the first floor out of 3-massive floors to this huge old building,and the people/students packet our club named RAIN. Like this we had to strip it all back new dance floor to lighting & painted with Matt black & mambo - men in illuminious paint back on 1988-1992. Love these old listed places & should remain where they are just renovate inside for flats & sand blast outside. They still get used in movie like Hobbs & Shaw used the arches & George's Square. It was the self same guy Private Clubs & Boozers all over Glasgow that owned the Sub-club to Ashton Lane ... Just reminds me of when my brother got the keys to upstairs to get started on this old Victorian Building much like this as many were bond houses for keeping stuff that came off the big boats on the River Clyde. Fascinating watching your class footage with everything still intact .... WOW .... GREAT SUB 👌
Your exploring reminds me of my exploring of factories that where left to rot in maryhill, two next to taggerts called the c walker and a coffee factory, this was late 80s I loved it ✌🏼✊🏻🤍
New to the channel. Only found this because I was talking to someone in work about the signage further up Oswald Street for the Typewriter Repair Co. I used to go through Oswald Street regularly with various Saturday jobs in the city centre when I was young. So sad to see more heritage go. I did a bit of digging on the company that put forward the development bid. A shell company full of other company's. All property developers looking to increase portfolios and profits. Most from down south. Seems sickening to me that our city's heritage is chucked away for the profit of those who never lived here. That's Glasgow City Council for you though I guess. Mind you, so much more has been lost. And the warehouse itself was built over the original Smithfield and small allotments etc. Love the channel. Will subscribe sir.
Interesting, thanks for your personal input and feedback. Totally agree, the internal games within the shadows that manage city infrastructure, old and new, is too sickening to actually digest... a tangled web. The silver lining for us is knowing and seeing the inner workings in plain sight today, whereas those in the past would have been shoved pillar to post, not even a spare moment to wonder and head scratch... I will have to look into the previous structure as you mention, very interesting as I hadn't come across that in my research! Thanks for following the Channel my friend much appreciated ✌️
58 Oswald Street. You can check it in Street View on Google maps, you can still see it. I find that entire area, and the old village of Grahamston that's under the station fascinating. There was supposedly a fording point close to here when the Clyde was naturally wider and shallower, where various ancient armies crossed. Mental when you think about it. I regularly nosey around the online maps at the National Library of Scotland. 2 books that might interest you sir: Lost Glasgow and Lost Villages of Glasgow.
@@davemcdave2169 Thanks again m8! Very fascinating the ancient armies crossing the shallow Clyde - incredible imagery paints in the mind of these lesser told ancient times, of Glasgow and surrounding areas. Yes Grahamston is particularly interesting in regards to its mystic and open discussions around it, though I feel there's much-much more to be known of and it would be a privilege to be granted such information. I've heard from reputable people that there's many layers to the City infrastructure which is captivating... I would love to see the apparent old street of shops underneath Union Street 🔍
I saw another UA-cam where the older guy narrating it is disgusted by the trees growing out the India Street building. He implied that this was a sign that the building was being let to rot and I agree with him. I am so sick of seeing "modern" square or rectangular "carbuncles" take the place of these beautiful old properties simply because they have been left to rot! I would like to say that this was only GCC but the NHS does the same with older hospital buildings after "someone" has stripped the interiors first of all. 😡💔🏴
@@liliasgordon3565they’re demoralising us, slowly chipping away at our history, our culture, etc. replacing the demographics, telling us it’s not ok to be White and Scottish in our own country. Telling us it’s not ok to want to be around and only look out for our own people. It’s a slow burn and we won’t even realise how bad it’s got until it’s too late.
Truly, it's not right. Used in its day then left to rot. No appreciation for those who got us here through hardworking dedication. Just cut and run after moving the factories and warehouses out of the Cities.
I'm getting more and intrigued with the mudflood.... The old factory wall that at the end of Duke street just before high St, it previous window arch's run pavement level the further along run under the pavement. I'm seeing more of the same about the city.
I know the exact bit you are mentioning and made a clip of it actually, same on Washington Street in Anderston you can see below street on the building. Tons of places in Glasgow it's showing, from Bath Street to Finnieston, Queens Terrace, all over the place. Got some vids lined up ✔️👍
What they did to the "College Bar" on the High Street is absolutely criminal. One of only a small number of medieval buildings left in the city. It wasn't left to rot but razed to the ground by deliberate arson. It was they only way they could remove the small businesses that were thriving in an area the City Council deemed an eyesore and had already touted in the Glasgow Times as potentially beautiful should these businesses allow them to develop it. 🤬😡💔🏴
The College Bar situation deeply saddens me to this day, I had never been inside though unfortunately for me, what a waste of a medieval relic! Tragic. I was actually talking about this to a friend an hour ago... who lit the match and how do they sleep at night 💰 to think that this is a gig in the covert operating world 🚫
Fair bit of metal scrap in that joint and the aluminium kegs could be a nice little earner if they are the older type without a stamp on them .Probably £15 to £45 a pop depending on type of metal , And I seen other items that sell on the open market for at least £60 a pop and there were quite a few of em . But my scraping days are done and just hope the good gear does not get crushed when the demolition starts ?
Very interesting, good eye. Thanks for your insights 👍 its very apparent that there's many valuable materials in there, heffty industrial stuff all the way down to finer details as you say, all artisan manufactured. Wonderfully built and positioned to a precise point, the underground area. I don't take anything but this is actually the place I was tempted to take a thing stuck to the wall of the toilet cubicle, it was a sign saying Victorian something and is of genuine old world era. It was unfortunately corroded but brand new is around £60+, very cool little feature that isn't actually in video but in photos I think ✌️
above river island on argyle st entrance sports direct used to be argyle market but before that a department store cant remember the name of it it was three floors and like a maze vaguely remember it curious what happened to it must be 45yrs ago
Jesus, I started watching this cos the name caught my eye. Then you got to the gym level... And after a minute I'm like, 'wait a fkin minute' ... My old Muay Thai class was in a gym near the top floor on Oswald St in the late 90s/early 2000s... It was such a cool place to train... Was this place opposite the car park? Edit: Holy shit just got to you opening a window and it WAS where I trained. We used to put the ropes up round the columns to make a ring every so often. Damn. I'm a little heartbroken realising and seeing this, what it's become. I was only thinking abt this place a few days ago, when listening to Rock Superstar by Cyprus Hill- that was our warm up music. God, I'm old. And the state of the building makes me very sad.
Yeah buddy unfortunately the building will be demolished soon, now after meetings have taken place to decide its fate which is quite uncommon considering that it's in a conservationist location with its connection to Glasgow history and Broomielaw/River Clyde - Industrial history. The gym areas I found to be very cool and wondered about all the different lives that have walked through here and spent time throughout the buildings history, from recent times the gym and Papis member club to its original functionality, incredibly old in comparison to most of the buildings around it. Glad that you got something from it m8! All the best 👍
@@Urban-Expeditions cheers for the info. I'm feeling kinda weirdly haunted now, my memories of it are snapshots but bright & pristine and now I've seen it as is... I feel like there was a room off to the back left but something, a door or mirror, was obstructing the entrance?... But I could be wrong. I missed the first minutes of the video cos my phones not working right so it was a genuine gut punch((!)) when I realised where you were. I never saw any of the other floors, they were private. I never even realised how old it was or what it had been when I attended... Guess you don't when you're 20. I also worked in Cardinal Folly's/The Temple/The Shack nightclub on Pitt St in the early 2000s, a stunning Greek Thomson church building that burnt down... So many lovely Glasgow buildings, now memories. Good work on the video, I've subbed. Thanks again.
This was an amazing explore. I know you had to have had the urge to turn around because it felt like someone was behind you at least a couple of times in there. I even felt it and I’m in the comfort of my living room 😂 I’d love to see inside all these old buildings before they become shitey foreign student accommodation 🙄
If walking from Ibrox to Town you'll walk past this exact building ✔️ hundreds of rangers fans were walking past when I went in. Any places of interest you know?
F##k goin solo man 🫣🫣you need a co-pilot bro. Im from Glasgow and would go on one or a few or whatever. Im 50 just turned 50 on 6 march🫣🫣am single n need to get out ma flat. No joke. I know this sounds bit mental. Lol on yer comments like Taaakkke meeee waayyyyyy ye !! 😀😀gen up. Cos your on your todd. The offer is there mate👍🏻👍🏻
Yes, decided very recently. I did hope that the building could be salvaged, even if only partially such as with the frontage/facade. I wonder what justifications were used to come to such a drastic and sudden decision?... it is most certainly one of the oldest buildings around that small area.
This looks like another example in Glasgow, of what is most likely a listed building, being opened to the elements so that it decays to they point where it can be declared dangerous, the protection rescinded and the building demolished. The developers can than get going on making a big fat profit, with yet another piece of brute architecture, and further demoralise, what was once a magnificent and beautiful city.
Glasgow was never beautiful 😂😂
@@JimMcDonaldSoItIs That rather depends on your perception of beauty.
Brown envlopes are the snake rats favourite pass time
You should go into the library and get have a look at old Glasgow books. The architecture we've lost thanks to Glasgow City Council is criminal.
It will most likely end up being another hideous block of student housing.
Reminds me of our club up Sauchie above NICOS we were given in 1988-1994 the chance to do the first floor out of 3-massive floors to this huge old building,and the people/students packet our club named RAIN. Like this we had to strip it all back new dance floor to lighting & painted with Matt black & mambo - men in illuminious paint back on 1988-1992. Love these old listed places & should remain where they are just renovate inside for flats & sand blast outside. They still get used in movie like Hobbs & Shaw used the arches & George's Square. It was the self same guy Private Clubs & Boozers all over Glasgow that owned the Sub-club to Ashton Lane ... Just reminds me of when my brother got the keys to upstairs to get started on this old Victorian Building much like this as many were bond houses for keeping stuff that came off the big boats on the River Clyde. Fascinating watching your class footage with everything still intact .... WOW .... GREAT SUB 👌
I love your passion about this ✊🏻✌🏼🤍
Absolutely loved this , so much history 😊
Cracking Explore mate👌🏻
Cheers my man and thanks for the development intel 👍
Your exploring reminds me of my exploring of factories that where left to rot in maryhill, two next to taggerts called the c walker and a coffee factory, this was late 80s I loved it ✌🏼✊🏻🤍
New to the channel. Only found this because I was talking to someone in work about the signage further up Oswald Street for the Typewriter Repair Co. I used to go through Oswald Street regularly with various Saturday jobs in the city centre when I was young. So sad to see more heritage go. I did a bit of digging on the company that put forward the development bid. A shell company full of other company's. All property developers looking to increase portfolios and profits. Most from down south. Seems sickening to me that our city's heritage is chucked away for the profit of those who never lived here. That's Glasgow City Council for you though I guess. Mind you, so much more has been lost. And the warehouse itself was built over the original Smithfield and small allotments etc. Love the channel. Will subscribe sir.
Interesting, thanks for your personal input and feedback. Totally agree, the internal games within the shadows that manage city infrastructure, old and new, is too sickening to actually digest... a tangled web. The silver lining for us is knowing and seeing the inner workings in plain sight today, whereas those in the past would have been shoved pillar to post, not even a spare moment to wonder and head scratch...
I will have to look into the previous structure as you mention, very interesting as I hadn't come across that in my research!
Thanks for following the Channel my friend much appreciated ✌️
58 Oswald Street. You can check it in Street View on Google maps, you can still see it. I find that entire area, and the old village of Grahamston that's under the station fascinating. There was supposedly a fording point close to here when the Clyde was naturally wider and shallower, where various ancient armies crossed. Mental when you think about it. I regularly nosey around the online maps at the National Library of Scotland. 2 books that might interest you sir: Lost Glasgow and Lost Villages of Glasgow.
@@davemcdave2169 Thanks again m8! Very fascinating the ancient armies crossing the shallow Clyde - incredible imagery paints in the mind of these lesser told ancient times, of Glasgow and surrounding areas. Yes Grahamston is particularly interesting in regards to its mystic and open discussions around it, though I feel there's much-much more to be known of and it would be a privilege to be granted such information. I've heard from reputable people that there's many layers to the City infrastructure which is captivating... I would love to see the apparent old street of shops underneath Union Street 🔍
Such a cool warehouse. Today the roof of the historic India Building collapsed not far from here. Gla council leave stuff to rot
I saw another UA-cam where the older guy narrating it is disgusted by the trees growing out the India Street building. He implied that this was a sign that the building was being let to rot and I agree with him. I am so sick of seeing "modern" square or rectangular "carbuncles" take the place of these beautiful old properties simply because they have been left to rot! I would like to say that this was only GCC but the NHS does the same with older hospital buildings after "someone" has stripped the interiors first of all. 😡💔🏴
@@liliasgordon3565they’re demoralising us, slowly chipping away at our history, our culture, etc. replacing the demographics, telling us it’s not ok to be White and Scottish in our own country. Telling us it’s not ok to want to be around and only look out for our own people. It’s a slow burn and we won’t even realise how bad it’s got until it’s too late.
Did you get back out the same way you got in 😂 looks like a tight squeeze
Yeah 😅 it's thrilling but definitely a tight squeeze 🕳
@@Urban-Expeditions do you know if it’s been patched up or if it’s still accessible 😁
Tragic and poignant how this place has ended up
Truly, it's not right. Used in its day then left to rot. No appreciation for those who got us here through hardworking dedication. Just cut and run after moving the factories and warehouses out of the Cities.
I'm getting more and intrigued with the mudflood.... The old factory wall that at the end of Duke street just before high St, it previous window arch's run pavement level the further along run under the pavement. I'm seeing more of the same about the city.
I know the exact bit you are mentioning and made a clip of it actually, same on Washington Street in Anderston you can see below street on the building. Tons of places in Glasgow it's showing, from Bath Street to Finnieston, Queens Terrace, all over the place. Got some vids lined up ✔️👍
@@Urban-Expeditions it is all very strange!
@@Urban-Expeditions il keep an eye out on those other addresses u mentioned there, nice one!
It's not a factory, it's part of the old High Street Goods Yard
What they did to the "College Bar" on the High Street is absolutely criminal. One of only a small number of medieval buildings left in the city. It wasn't left to rot but razed to the ground by deliberate arson. It was they only way they could remove the small businesses that were thriving in an area the City Council deemed an eyesore and had already touted in the Glasgow Times as potentially beautiful should these businesses allow them to develop it. 🤬😡💔🏴
The College Bar situation deeply saddens me to this day, I had never been inside though unfortunately for me, what a waste of a medieval relic! Tragic. I was actually talking about this to a friend an hour ago... who lit the match and how do they sleep at night 💰 to think that this is a gig in the covert operating world 🚫
😊 that was Epic!! ❤
Glad you enjoyed it 😊 lots more to come 🔎
The Club At Papa V's, 11 Oswald Street 🙂
Wot would you do if u stumbled across treasure I’ve often wondered
Al keep an eye out buddy 🔎
....so many nooks and crannies!! 👻
Fair bit of metal scrap in that joint and the aluminium kegs could be a nice little earner if they are the older type without a stamp on them .Probably £15 to £45 a pop depending on type of metal , And I seen other items that sell on the open market for at least £60 a pop and there were quite a few of em . But my scraping days are done and just hope the good gear does not get crushed when the demolition starts ?
Very interesting, good eye. Thanks for your insights 👍 its very apparent that there's many valuable materials in there, heffty industrial stuff all the way down to finer details as you say, all artisan manufactured. Wonderfully built and positioned to a precise point, the underground area. I don't take anything but this is actually the place I was tempted to take a thing stuck to the wall of the toilet cubicle, it was a sign saying Victorian something and is of genuine old world era. It was unfortunately corroded but brand new is around £60+, very cool little feature that isn't actually in video but in photos I think ✌️
above river island on argyle st entrance sports direct used to be argyle market but before that a department store cant remember the name of it it was three floors and like a maze vaguely remember it curious what happened to it must be 45yrs ago
Interesting!
Amazing old building surprised so dry suppose why lasted so long
Jesus, I started watching this cos the name caught my eye. Then you got to the gym level... And after a minute I'm like, 'wait a fkin minute' ... My old Muay Thai class was in a gym near the top floor on Oswald St in the late 90s/early 2000s... It was such a cool place to train... Was this place opposite the car park?
Edit: Holy shit just got to you opening a window and it WAS where I trained. We used to put the ropes up round the columns to make a ring every so often.
Damn. I'm a little heartbroken realising and seeing this, what it's become. I was only thinking abt this place a few days ago, when listening to Rock Superstar by Cyprus Hill- that was our warm up music. God, I'm old. And the state of the building makes me very sad.
Yeah buddy unfortunately the building will be demolished soon, now after meetings have taken place to decide its fate which is quite uncommon considering that it's in a conservationist location with its connection to Glasgow history and Broomielaw/River Clyde - Industrial history.
The gym areas I found to be very cool and wondered about all the different lives that have walked through here and spent time throughout the buildings history, from recent times the gym and Papis member club to its original functionality, incredibly old in comparison to most of the buildings around it.
Glad that you got something from it m8! All the best 👍
@@Urban-Expeditions cheers for the info. I'm feeling kinda weirdly haunted now, my memories of it are snapshots but bright & pristine and now I've seen it as is... I feel like there was a room off to the back left but something, a door or mirror, was obstructing the entrance?... But I could be wrong.
I missed the first minutes of the video cos my phones not working right so it was a genuine gut punch((!)) when I realised where you were.
I never saw any of the other floors, they were private. I never even realised how old it was or what it had been when I attended... Guess you don't when you're 20.
I also worked in Cardinal Folly's/The Temple/The Shack nightclub on Pitt St in the early 2000s, a stunning Greek Thomson church building that burnt down... So many lovely Glasgow buildings, now memories.
Good work on the video, I've subbed. Thanks again.
Ah Glasgow, where the Council can pull down A Listed Alexander Thompson buildings in the 1990's
Do you ever take a wee moment of where you've been?
Yeah, I've been here lots. Check credits for photos of moments captured.
This was an amazing explore. I know you had to have had the urge to turn around because it felt like someone was behind you at least a couple of times in there. I even felt it and I’m in the comfort of my living room 😂
I’d love to see inside all these old buildings before they become shitey foreign student accommodation 🙄
2:09 And some people will believe anything...
It's not their belief it was their personal feelings buddy. Just a hunch, not fully believed.
I've been here before
If walking from Ibrox to Town you'll walk past this exact building ✔️ hundreds of rangers fans were walking past when I went in. Any places of interest you know?
@@Urban-Expeditions go to the tunnel at the gallowgate at morrisons I'll send you a video on how to get there
@@Urban-Expeditions I've sent you a video on messenger mate
Moving camera too fast can't see stuff
My apologies, Photo Album of things of interest at the end 👍 for closer Inspection 🔍
F##k goin solo man 🫣🫣you need a co-pilot bro. Im from Glasgow and would go on one or a few or whatever. Im 50 just turned 50 on 6 march🫣🫣am single n need to get out ma flat. No joke. I know this sounds bit mental. Lol on yer comments like Taaakkke meeee waayyyyyy ye !! 😀😀gen up. Cos your on your todd. The offer is there mate👍🏻👍🏻
Needs wee bit a commentary mate. To keep the viewer i think 👍🏻👍🏻✌🏻
@@garymcphillie5442And maybe a bigger torch on flood and not spot can be hard on the eyes.
🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍💯🤍
more property developments and nada public spaces glasgow city council really are shite
👎🚫
It's getting pulled down
Yes, decided very recently. I did hope that the building could be salvaged, even if only partially such as with the frontage/facade. I wonder what justifications were used to come to such a drastic and sudden decision?... it is most certainly one of the oldest buildings around that small area.
It's called neglect.
Cheers Jim