I used to go to the Cranhill church as a child as I had lived in 29 start point street and moved to 126 fastnet block (masonettes). The hexagonal church building seems to have been demolished also and the church has moved into what used to be the hall. I think there is footage of my mother singing in the church and it matches up with the time that my family lived there. I remember Mr Reid the minister very well as he would also come around the schools to take assemblies. The footage of Milncroft school is very interesting but it closed in 1978 or 79 and joined with Lamblash. I am happier to see that most of the old housing stock has been ripped down but would like to see the area being regenerated.
I lived in skerryvore place then we moved to lamlash crescent where my mum still lives. We went to st maria gorettis church and saint Elizabeth seton primary before going to saint Andrews secondary. When they were pulling down the old tenements my mum refused to move for three years because there was ten of us in a three bedroom house and the council kept offering her houses the same size or in two cases even smaller. We were in the paper a couple of times as nuisance neighbors which was pretty ironic since we had no neighbors. Every house on skerryvore place, skerryvore road and bellrock street had already been demolished. The council resorted to a few extreme measures to get rid of us like removing the bulbs from the street lights outside and the ones in the close. We were right up the top floor and for children as young as we were it was terrifying walking up all those stairs in the pitch black
@@starrchild254 The council made the area a ghetto. They moved all of the troublesome families into it and also junkies. The design of the flats and masonettes made them easy prey for house breakers. The masonettes were taken down after a 13 year old died of a heroin overdose. The last remnants of the area left is the water tower, high rise flats, the church and chapel, and startpoint street, etc; and the park. I believe the flats are planned for demolition. When the flats are brought down, it should mean that the area can then be redeveloped and that might mean that it will be a far more desirable area to live in. I remember, when I lived there in the late 70's, everybody wanted out. All of my school friends were moving out to areas like East Kilbride. Once you got into the area, it was very hard to get out of it if you moved home there.
@@undertheradar001 do you remember the fire in the marionettes? The family who died were my oldest nieces family. Her great aunt and her cousins and they found out they were insulated with straw. I don't know if you remember Michelle mcgarroll on the news. My nieces mum told me and her cousins to tell the police that our stepdads molested us because 'we would get compensation' she knew this because she did it to her own dad. We were 13 at the time and as much as I HATED my stepdad I refused but the cousin went through with it. I told the police that she was lying andvthat Deborah had told her to say it but the only person who believed me was my mum because ten years earlier she told my mum about a girl she was in care with telling her about how she was molested by her dad and got money then two weeks later came out saying the same story word for word. Long story short claires stepdad died in prison branded a paedophile. I don't know when you were last in cranhill but it's a whole different place these days
@@starrchild254 I am so sorry to hear about what happened. You can get some very dangerous people. I understand fully that children need to be protected, but also understand the system can provide financial incentive to falsely accuse. That destroys lives every bit as much as abuse can. I am a dad myself. I lived in the masonettes and my bedroom was above the veranda next to the toilet at the upstairs front. It had black mould growing up the walls and needed about 3 applications of anti mould paint a year. It would not surprise me that they were insulated with straw because they were freezing. You would wake up in winter with thick ice inside of the windows and see your breath. I was in fastnet block; right next to where they were building the motorway (by st Mordon's school). The working would go on all night and all day. You could never get a proper night's sleep there. I remember seeing 2 suicides from Soutra court. One from floor 9 and the other from floor 15. That was from the living room window at the back of the masonette. I really hope, after they demolish the flats, that the area will be better to build on and that it will be nicer and far more desirable to live in than it was.
It was commissioned by Robert Reid, who was the parish church minister. It is now owned by the national film archive. Mr Reid was an excellent minister. He really loved the kids and the church was alike an oasis in the desert.
Shame so much of this is taken up by Robert Reid the minister......my next door neighbour found him so repulsive that he threw him out of their house.......a man with a giant ego
Loved 221 bellrock st had my first sniff of glue there I was only 7 😂
You must be so proud.
@@McSynthyes that’s the scheme fur you🖕
All changed Days from then, just saying from Glasgow 😎🇬🇧
My family came from here
I used to go to the Cranhill church as a child as I had lived in 29 start point street and moved to 126 fastnet block (masonettes). The hexagonal church building seems to have been demolished also and the church has moved into what used to be the hall. I think there is footage of my mother singing in the church and it matches up with the time that my family lived there. I remember Mr Reid the minister very well as he would also come around the schools to take assemblies. The footage of Milncroft school is very interesting but it closed in 1978 or 79 and joined with Lamblash. I am happier to see that most of the old housing stock has been ripped down but would like to see the area being regenerated.
I lived in skerryvore place then we moved to lamlash crescent where my mum still lives. We went to st maria gorettis church and saint Elizabeth seton primary before going to saint Andrews secondary. When they were pulling down the old tenements my mum refused to move for three years because there was ten of us in a three bedroom house and the council kept offering her houses the same size or in two cases even smaller. We were in the paper a couple of times as nuisance neighbors which was pretty ironic since we had no neighbors. Every house on skerryvore place, skerryvore road and bellrock street had already been demolished. The council resorted to a few extreme measures to get rid of us like removing the bulbs from the street lights outside and the ones in the close. We were right up the top floor and for children as young as we were it was terrifying walking up all those stairs in the pitch black
@@starrchild254 The council made the area a ghetto. They moved all of the troublesome families into it and also junkies. The design of the flats and masonettes made them easy prey for house breakers. The masonettes were taken down after a 13 year old died of a heroin overdose. The last remnants of the area left is the water tower, high rise flats, the church and chapel, and startpoint street, etc; and the park. I believe the flats are planned for demolition. When the flats are brought down, it should mean that the area can then be redeveloped and that might mean that it will be a far more desirable area to live in. I remember, when I lived there in the late 70's, everybody wanted out. All of my school friends were moving out to areas like East Kilbride. Once you got into the area, it was very hard to get out of it if you moved home there.
@@undertheradar001 do you remember the fire in the marionettes? The family who died were my oldest nieces family. Her great aunt and her cousins and they found out they were insulated with straw. I don't know if you remember Michelle mcgarroll on the news. My nieces mum told me and her cousins to tell the police that our stepdads molested us because 'we would get compensation' she knew this because she did it to her own dad. We were 13 at the time and as much as I HATED my stepdad I refused but the cousin went through with it. I told the police that she was lying andvthat Deborah had told her to say it but the only person who believed me was my mum because ten years earlier she told my mum about a girl she was in care with telling her about how she was molested by her dad and got money then two weeks later came out saying the same story word for word. Long story short claires stepdad died in prison branded a paedophile.
I don't know when you were last in cranhill but it's a whole different place these days
@@starrchild254 I am so sorry to hear about what happened. You can get some very dangerous people. I understand fully that children need to be protected, but also understand the system can provide financial incentive to falsely accuse. That destroys lives every bit as much as abuse can. I am a dad myself. I lived in the masonettes and my bedroom was above the veranda next to the toilet at the upstairs front. It had black mould growing up the walls and needed about 3 applications of anti mould paint a year. It would not surprise me that they were insulated with straw because they were freezing. You would wake up in winter with thick ice inside of the windows and see your breath. I was in fastnet block; right next to where they were building the motorway (by st Mordon's school). The working would go on all night and all day. You could never get a proper night's sleep there. I remember seeing 2 suicides from Soutra court. One from floor 9 and the other from floor 15. That was from the living room window at the back of the masonette. I really hope, after they demolish the flats, that the area will be better to build on and that it will be nicer and far more desirable to live in than it was.
The dog rolling in the school playground 😄😄
My mother is in that video @5 mins 29 secs. She is the woman in dark blue with the black hair in the centre of the shot singing.
I was married in this church Sept 14. 1968
I stayed in 271 bellrock st 😊
Can I ask who made this and who owns it? I do some work with Cranhill Parish Church and Development Trust, do you know if they have seen it?
It was commissioned by Robert Reid, who was the parish church minister. It is now owned by the national film archive. Mr Reid was an excellent minister. He really loved the kids and the church was alike an oasis in the desert.
10:57 Iain, the lammy :)
the boll cut cru ll
think im in this :)
Shame so much of this is taken up by Robert Reid the minister......my next door neighbour found him so repulsive that he threw him out of their house.......a man with a giant ego
Great footage of Glasgow and the church of Scotland 🇬🇧❤️🤍💙
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