Born in Gilmour St Gorbals.1950.Stayed in single end,ma da and 7 boys,oldest brother stayed with granny. Eventually flitted to 3bedroom house in Carnwadric 1961. Hard times growing up but all survived to work hard and prosper.👍👍
Re The M8 being built . “Clearing of Glasgow slum property “. Charing Cross was certainly never a slum.The surrounding buildings were beautiful .Smashing a motorway through it all was a crime. I grew up a few minutes away at St George’s Cross .
I agree. I too grew up in the Charing Cross area long before the motorway was built. I always said they tore the heart out of Glasgow by doing that. But no doubt the planners' vision reflected the spirit of the times. As John Betjeman expressed it, "Let all things travel faster where motor car is master."
@@ZL54JK8 Cheers. I look at some of the old pics of that area before it was destroyed and it makes me want to cry. I grew up living in the flats above the CoOp building on St George’s Rd. What a time ,left when I was about 12 , but always consider it my childhood home.
Two comments by the Professor at the hospital made me smile. The first was his comment about Glasgow being a 'mixed city.' For those not familiar with the euphemism, he means Protestants and Catholics. Crazy to think of that term being used. Secondly, he also mentions Glasgow as having 'a large foreign population.' Given that this is early 1970s the foreign population in Glasgow at the time would have been absolutely tiny.
Thanks for this v interesting in knowing what came before me. I was born in 1970 and don't remember the m8 construction. My mum and dad had a flat in Craigie hall street, a tenement. In 75 we moved to Penilee with our own garden , toilet , kitchen. Growing up i knew of slum areas such as in Govan and near by. Growing up i didnt feel that i came from those areas and had a good childhood.
6-56 Paddy’s market . The most friendless replacement of Willa. Grew up in Glasgow and went to P M quite often. This is exactly how I felt about the place.
Is it? Why? Care to explain? I could easily say the apartheid school system is Scotland's shame. Or the drug death per head of population. Or the pathetic education system. Or the biggest rape of young boys in a certain sporting institution in world sports, a "club open for all". Shh, don't mention Jews. But I won't. Oops. Think I just did. Yeah, the Orange Order, if only they did not exist. Scotland would be "the best wee country in the world.
Born in Gilmour St Gorbals.1950.Stayed in single end,ma da and 7 boys,oldest brother stayed with granny.
Eventually flitted to 3bedroom house in Carnwadric 1961.
Hard times growing up but all survived to work hard and prosper.👍👍
Yer a fuckin liar
Re The M8 being built .
“Clearing of Glasgow slum property “.
Charing Cross was certainly never a slum.The surrounding buildings were beautiful .Smashing a motorway through it all was a crime.
I grew up a few minutes away at St George’s Cross .
I agree. I too grew up in the Charing Cross area long before the motorway was built. I always said they tore the heart out of Glasgow by doing that. But no doubt the planners' vision reflected the spirit of the times. As John Betjeman expressed it, "Let all things travel faster where motor car is master."
@@ZL54JK8
Cheers.
I look at some of the old pics of that area before it was destroyed and it makes me want to cry.
I grew up living in the flats above the CoOp building on St George’s Rd.
What a time ,left when I was about 12 , but always consider it my childhood home.
Two comments by the Professor at the hospital made me smile.
The first was his comment about Glasgow being a 'mixed city.' For those not familiar with the euphemism, he means Protestants and Catholics. Crazy to think of that term being used.
Secondly, he also mentions Glasgow as having 'a large foreign population.' Given that this is early 1970s the foreign population in Glasgow at the time would have been absolutely tiny.
They cc's 😂 great upload; a fine testament to the ever-evolving Glasgow City.
Thanks for this v interesting in knowing what came before me. I was born in 1970 and don't remember the m8 construction. My mum and dad had a flat in Craigie hall street, a tenement. In 75 we moved to Penilee with our own garden , toilet , kitchen. Growing up i knew of slum areas such as in Govan and near by. Growing up i didnt feel that i came from those areas and had a good childhood.
Perhaps a Glaswegian would have been better doing the closed captions?
6-56
Paddy’s market .
The most friendless replacement of Willa.
Grew up in Glasgow and went to P M quite often.
This is exactly how I felt about the place.
that's a real old fashioned narration from a distant past
Paddy’s market was full of rubbish being sold.
Aye nae bother Lord Snooty
@@ShenmueOutrun😂👏👏👏
Yer maw punted her mutton there 🙄
@andrewsmith Shut up ya pudding
Great vid...next read THE REAL GORBALS STORY amazon
“Whatever the intentions of the walkers with the long memories’’😂😂
Orange order are scotlands shame
what ye on about ya nut? the orange order originate in Ireland, and the republican rabble are Scotland's shame
Is it? Why? Care to explain? I could easily say the apartheid school system is Scotland's shame. Or the drug death per head of population. Or the pathetic education system. Or the biggest rape of young boys in a certain sporting institution in world sports, a "club open for all". Shh, don't mention Jews. But I won't. Oops. Think I just did. Yeah, the Orange Order, if only they did not exist. Scotland would be "the best wee country in the world.
Correct Scott
That would be the schooling system, not the OO
Religious schooling is Scotland's shame