PORT GLASGOW, INVERCLYDE, SCOTLAND. Lower Port Glasgow.

A Short film of Lower Port Glasgow -essentially the west end of the Port.
The paths I took as a child and the places I grew up in.
A lot has changed in the 30 odd years since i've lived here. For the better? Im not that certain it is. I've labelled all the places of interest and street names to help any ex pats of Port Glasgow get some bearings.
Thanks for watching, comments very welcome and as always please like subscribe and share if you want more content like this.

[@lauriemccallum8074]

I was brought up in poplar street, went to chapelton primary school in 1950s, this was in lillybank road. Remember railway line behind poplar street gibbshill. above that,
the violet plain, worked in yards as a welder when i left school.was part of fitting out squad which meant working on boats after they were launched. Inchgreen drydock and kingston basin as well as james watt dock. Left greenock in 1971, only been back for birthdays or funerals. Thank you for video, brought back so many memories.

[@droningonscotland]

Thanks for sharing your memories. I'm honoured that my video brings back those memories for you. I grew up in Chapelton so the old railway line was our playground. The 9 arches were blown up at the end of the sixties but the glen below was reshaped with the sandstone that came off the viaduct. Used to walk my dog down there as a teenager.

[@lauriemccallum8074]

My sister still lives in Mackie Ave. Remember when they blew the arches up. They came round Gibbshill telling everyone to keep windows open so they wouldn,t shatter from the blasts.Thanks for the memories. Keep the drone flying.

[@moraggeldard]

Lovely memories of my home town

[@afairdealfortaxidrivers4359]

Great video!.
I lived on a street called “Clyde Street”, which, had it still been there, would’ve been clearly in the video.
I remember a pane from our kitchen window broke when they blew up the nine arches!.
I was born, and grew up in the Glen area, many great memories!.
Thanks!.

[@droningonscotland]

Thanks so much for your comment. I lived in Chapelton as a child and although I was there at the time of the 9 arches being blown up by the army, I was too young to remember it. It is a shame that Clyde St and the Glen area of the past ended up being swallowed up by the main road and now whats left of it exists as a decent but not very interesting shopping outlet on the fringe of the town centre. I remember the Glen as a child, specifically a cafe of some sort that my parents would take me too when I was very young. Also the Lithgows social club and the chaos when the horns would go so.

[@FoobsTon]

​@@droningonscotland
I lived on the other side of Devol Glen. Spent plenty of time having adventures there. Wondered what it all looked like from above. Thanks for posting.

[@AngloAm]

My nan was from the wee port.

[@mack1media]

Seen my hoose in there too :) New subscriber.

[@droningonscotland]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@dontpanicblink]

was the glen yard where goliath crane was ? always remember it when my family would travel down ( late 70s to early 90s )to skelmorlie to see my gran and other family from my mum's side, came down from north east scotland farm land seeing the ship building heart land was always interesting for me and my brother and sister, i was born in rankin hosptial but we never lived in greenock my parents lived in skelmorlie for about 6 months in late 72 early 73 as my dad said if they moved a week or two earlier i would have been born in oldmeldrum or inverurie

[@droningonscotland]

Yeah, Goliath was indeed in the Glen yard, You can still see the tracks the crane travelled along if you look around 3:13 on the video.

[@dontpanicblink]

@@droningonscotland i guess the glen yard was more or less where port glasgow ended and greenock stared

[@droningonscotland]

@@dontpanicblink It ended further along at the Kingston yard