I'm a taxi driver in Glasgow and even today some of these guys who were involved with the different gangs and are now "old men" still carry blades of some sort! (Just incase) ;)
I remember a group called scheme well known back in day from cranhill Glasgow was hard going growing up but wouldn't change it I've learned so much being brought up in Glasgow and the people are friendly it's drink and drugs that the problem no jobs prospects
With regard to the woman saying working class teenagers are treated the same as middle class. The middle classes in Glasgow will not give the working class the steam off of their piss. They are completely invested in those who have moved to Glasgow from other countries and those who are actually from here can bounce. Those in charge of the funding and allocation in many cases have a tenuous link to Glasgow and indeed Scotland, they go from city to city and in some cases country to country following the money and changing those cities to how they like them which is absolutely nothing what they looked like twenty years previous demographic wise. This applies across politics, the media, academia, publishing, the Arts, entertainment etc. Treacherous barstewards.
7:02 that police totally took that wee guy in an gave him a cheeky slap! From fighting and struggling to needs 2 guys jus te carry him to the pig van! That's what the police should still be able to do.
Aye, they seemed to bundle him through a set of doors then drag him back out after a few seconds. What's the betting he was given a bit of a vicious kicking, dragged away and sent on his way with a few cracked ribs and a couple of black eyes and no further action taken? Perhaps in most cases that type of rough justice worked, but how many times did it result in life changing injuries and death? Is it right that the Police should have the power to tackle violence with violence and act like thugs themselves. Just look at what that type of rough justice did to Liddle Towers....
hellfiregrowler well ye see this is the age old argument how to dish out 'justice' appropriately the police these days are a completely different beast to the police of back then the red tape alone ties the hands. Yes some police officers are bully types but not all, I spent my entire youth thinking the same old shite everyone thought "fuck the police, they're all cunts" and it was after growing up and realising the majority of them are just trying to do their job (and a difficult one too) so I think yes the police should be able to trade violence for violence, and I think the majority of situations iv heard of the police these days have dealt with the situation with professionalism because it's their job if they don't.
I respect your opinion and a very fair one too. I agree most Coppers are not pricks but sadly there still are a fair few that are, just look at policing at the football. They are, as you say earning a crust to feed their families so are no different to any other working man and woman and we would be in a very bad way without an effective law and order system. Although most people on the receiving and of police brutality have probably "asked for it" or "deserved" it, I just feel a system where its acceptable for the Police to be able to beat people leads us into the realms of an oppressive police state we all agree (I imagine) would be a regressive step and a threat to our own civil liberties.
hellfiregrowler I grew up in a fairly isolated town in south west Scotland in the 80's and 90's I myself know of people and have been the recipient of a swift dig in the ribs by a pissed off police officer iv known of people receiving the dreaded mattress punishment were they'd truncheon ye threw a mattress (apparently leaves less of a bruise) and I can tell ye we did deserve it. However I've also lived in Glasgow for 10 year or so in my adult life and dealt with the police on a few different occasions and it was a very different experience altogether due to the fact I wasn't a wee fanny and I dealt out as much respect as I was given and I was promptly and proverbialy slapped on the wrist and told te bugger off as they had better things to do. And I promptly buggered off on my way, happy and not arrested. Now you can view the same stereotyping through a few different professions bouncers and bar staff for instance or even the armed forces on occasion, are viewed as being bully types or angry and short tempered now iv worked as both bar staff and in the military and I know a good few door staff and away from work they or I are usually very friendly people but while working arguably deal with more fannys than your other types of work. So it makes you a bit bitter and short because drunk people or angry idiots are very volatile people and are very very difficult do deal with, so I doth my cap to all these professions for every day they don't slap some titt for standing shouting profanities right in your face. So let's not give them too hard a time, because you can always say "I'd deal with it this way" however until your face to face with these issues on a daily basis you never truly know how you would actually deal with it.
nowadays people carry tramontana blades or lock back knifes , but you do get the odd guy with a short machete a hammer or an axe and something razor sharp to open up your face if the manage to knock you out.....
not even close giving that in the early 2000s glasgow had just over 3 times as many stabbings per capita this is why london turned to glasgow to ask for help before it possibly gets out of hand but saying that londons getting better already!
is that joe devline they interviewed ? i know him from when he lived on roystonhill also know were he got his razors? friend of mine in the day worked at a barbers down town and he threaten him to get him them. moved to canada 2 yrs later 1976 was in the big glen on royston rd visiting my mum who walks in but him said hi next day in sunday mail see he has been arrested for murder??? anybody who lived in the toonheed garngad have a million stories they can tell some good some bad some funny it was glasgow in the day when i left glasgow in 74 my first wife came from blackhill now there lots of stories? went back 29 yrs with new wife meeting my bro at drummond bar on gordon st i think and a guy get stab just just before we get ? welcome home ???????
Soz for butting in, but Joe Devlin is alive and well after serving a life sentence? After watching the above video I thought out of all the lads he would be the one dead by now!
6:56 the coppers drag a kid (just smacked another kid) back into the club - a few seconds later, he's dragged back out again in cuffs completely unconscious. Those were the days!!
Yeah I bet you love it when your rights get violated by the police. You probably purposely speed to get pulled over so you can get your rocks off by consenting to search.
What a great thing TH-cam is showing these social history documentaries. Where else would you get it,this was shown 50 years ago on television and has probably never been repeated on television,but TH-cam and other social media and the internet in general you can watch it anytime to your hearts content. I wonder have any of the people shown in this Razor gangs episode seen themselves on TH-cam as the 17 year olds are all about 67 years old now.
Such intelligence and decency from Mr. Webster - real action is what we need right now - self management and mutual aid. His observations on the wilful destruction of community which was later completed by that vicious, treacherous, uppity, chav Thatcher as root cause of the problems shown here and prolific today was sadly prophetic.
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Mr Orange Yeah I get you there. I could grasp what they were saying, but it wouldn't be the first time I've saw documentaries covering the same situation, but up to date in the 2000's, that have had to put subtitles up probably for the English, but I've never had a problem understanding them, apart from the odd "what the hell did he say there?" Yes had that. Well nice to have commented back to you. Have a nice day. Cheers...Paul. (Auld Skool) Well if approaching 52 in November says it, fair enough, it's only a number, I feel and look 35! That does my head in, I mean at least get close!...Paul.
haha nice one fella,sectarian bollox they are Scots not Irish,They want to be Irish but sadly they never will as they are Scots,as for the little shit at 1.30 he couldn't knock his granny off the piss pot,hard bastard with a blade mind
I was a junior doctor in Glasgow Royal infirmary in 1978 to 1979 . I say many razor and knife wounds . The worst time by far was Saturday evening after a Celtic Rangers match . I would see as many as 12 to 15 razor and stab wounds . We even had a clinic solely for patients who had been stabbed . GRI’S proudest boast a “ Stab injury returns clinic . I think it’s miles better now . D
@desmondmccann782 I think I read somewhere that the Southern General was a world renowned head injury hospital, because they saw so many cracked and broken heads. I think they devised the Glasgow coma scale which has been used globally.
The rest of the world was taking massive amounts of decent Acid, getting into peace and love, listening to Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix. Meanwhile in Scotland :-)
Those guys the unspeakables with their blue vans were the worst criminals around, mostly fitting up innocent kids. You know it big Cyril McWanker was one of the worst.
The vast majority of these gangs were NOT divided by religion. YES there were some ie. The Billy Boys but as one person has already said most were just where you happened to live on a Scheme. There could even be 3 or 4 gangs in the same Scheme. That's not to underestimate the issues in the West of Scotland with sectarianism, which was horrendous and ingrained in society.
Personal choice and taking responsibility for one's actions is key. My ex grew up in Glasgow in a run-down area. He scurried around like a little alley cat in the backstreets and through holes in fences to avoid the violence. When he was sixteen, he persuaded his parents to emigrate to Canada, citing economic reasons, as they earned only enough money for rent and groceries. But the real reason, which he never told his parents, was that he was being pressured to join a gang. When he came to Canada in 1966, he was still on high alert against attack, but he soon realized that it was a lot more peaceful and nobody wanted to pick a fight with him.
Personal choice and responsibility? You mean his mum and dad had the financial wherewithall to move 3,000 to another country? There were areas in Glasgow back then where the average life expectancy was around 50. Personal choice?
@@gab99 Yes, personal choice. His family was poor. For weeks on end, all they had to eat was chips and eggs. Sometimes they had no coal to heat their home. But little miracles happened for them to supply their needs. Ian's father was a farm labourer, working for a man who bought estates, improved them, then sold them. Later, Jan worked as the custodian of a church in Glasgow. He couldn't read or write, as he was dyslexic. But my mother-in-law was a woman of faith. God told her many years before that He was going to send her as a missionary to some Indians and showed them to her in a vision. She was willing to go to India, but she thought those people God showed her were odd-looking Indians. It turns out that her mission field was in Canada to the Cree tribe in Alberta. It was God who moved on Ian to want to leave Scotland. It's always good to have the kids on board with a decision to move to another country. It seemed like there was no way in they would be approved for immigration due to his parents' health issues, but Ian's mother figured it was worth a try. Their health problems did not show up on the medical tests. They sold their furniture. One way or another, the money came in for the family to afford the fare on the Empress of Canada. A job was obtained for Ian and his father the day after they arrived in Canada, on a stud farm, which was terrific because Ian loved animals and had always taken good care of his pets. He was a hard worker, too. His boss wanted to pay for him to train to be his farm manager. Ian did not want to be obligated to the man his whole life, though, so he turned down that opportunity and worked in a mill, then in construction, and eventually as an iron worker before he retired. Ian and his father gave up their job on the stud farm because God told his mother that they were going to move and their new job would pay only half what Ian and his father presently earned. So, his father gave notice and their boss tried to persuade them to not leave. They got packed up and, three days from the end of the month, they still did not know where to go. But Ian's father got a phone call that day from a man in Alberta who owned a turkey farm and said he was desperate for help. He was shocked when Jan said that they were ready to go. It was as Mary said; they were paid only half of what they previously earned. But their new home was right next to a Cree reservation. The chief and his wife were Christians and gave Mary permission to visit the natives on their reserve. She ministered there for many years. Everyone has the opportunity to be reconciled to God through Jesus Christ and ask Him for help with what they need. He is willing, able, and eager to help. The Bible gives guidelines for how to ask and what to ask for.
I’m ex forces from 80 s I know how to look after myself all these people want is a tribe a pack a sence of belonging and a faith in directions catch them young and spare them the misery God bless all. We all want to belong
Ha ha my dad was in an Easterhouse gang and joined the Royal Highland Fusiliers in 1963. He was a total madman, he would nick anything that wasn't tied down.
Kids that join gangs always blame it on poverty, but most people that grow up in poverty don't get involved in it. It's less about poverty and more about the adrenaline rush and trying to look big in front of your mates.
So true , we were taught to pick up litter if we see it and say please and thankyou, just because ya poor doesn't mean you can't be kind and not a messy gobby anti social headbanger,one family can ruin an entire neighbourhood 😅
Like how when whites are in these conditions the narrative is that they're just thugs, when blacks are in these environments suddenly you lot start talking about sociology of it all.. funny how that works.
There are some entertaining moments in this video: 6:33 - one punch knockout. 8:53 - the dumbass says anyone can safely walk, or walk safely, down any street in Glasgow, somehow I don't think that was the case. 14:04 - my favourite part of the video - wanker.
When i served in the army when i passed p coy we had about 5 scottish lads on the course and all of them passed theyre just headstrong people who get on with it and dont give up ,i bet the Brigade alone was about 30% scottish
For all their patronising style, documentaries like this showed something that most people didn't really know much about. Today, our documentary makers seem to afraid to talk to people who are violent or who have markedly different lifestyles. Understanding suffers as a consequence.
One of the great things about Scotlands youth today is that as a whole they just don’t have that violence in them. I know they still have their headbangers, but in my experience the things shown here were still prevalent through the 1970’s. Somethings changed for the better.
Great documentary! Thank you! ..... Wouldn't it be interesting, to see how these young people, got on, in their future lives??? I think the makers of the show, should try to track down the surviving ones, and do a documentary on what happened next! .... A bit like the uk '7 UP,' series, where a group of 7 year old kids, were filmed in, i think 1963, then every 7 years, right up to the present day! xx
I was in barlinnie prison back then, but now here in Australia at 68 I am planning on starting my life at 70 going up to the tropics hunting and fishing,using my 2 pensions $40k+ margin loan @80%=$200k+ write monthly options 10-30% a year=$220-260k jogging, lift weights, work out....oh and over 170k stalkers over the years, now that's another amazing story.
Even with half a century's hindsight, it's still impossible to generalise a single cause of Glasgow's problems. Need to bear in mind that the gangs weren't newly formed in 1967: they'd been on the go for many decades before, and had mainly been spawned by sectarian divisions, reflected in the housing/ living situations of the working class. Interesting wee film, thanks for the upload...
I read a book about the Dieppe battle in WW2. The author states that a number of the Commando's were recruited from Glasgow razor gangs. Sometimes violent men are needed to fight violent men.
When you wore a tie and collar if you were in a gang. Could do with subtitles though. I like the bit where the kid hits the copper, a bus goes by, and then the kid's seen being dragged off unconscious "Fell down the stairs M'lud."
That's nothing ! Teds were still a thing in Fife up till recently. Middle aged guys with quiffs and winkle pickers was a common sight in some pubs. Probably still is...?
Quite scary watching this but need to bring these lads back to this era and sort out the bam pots we have nowadays not praising these guys but don't think they were muggers they were only doing at the time what was right as they fought the different gangs from alover , they would not atack old guys walking home from pub which happens nowadays ,they never had computers nothing never bring these people down,it was a different world then when you look at what's going on in this world now these guys were only sorting out who wanted to to chalenge and fight it was the way it was in all city's in the UK back then ,these guys were hard now a days they are scum slashing and frowning acid in faces of I nocent people bring these lads back to sort them out cheers lads ,
My mate's granddad used to working in the Glasgow shipyards, he used to put razor blades in his jacket lapels so if anyone grabbed them they would immediately let go and he would hit them with his flat cap that had a lead weight sewn into the back of it.
For most of the 70s my mother used to take my brother and I from our house outside London to Easterhouse to visit her friends at New Year. Imagine the fun the local thugs had hunting down the English boys, it was scary. We learned how to run fast...
@@keithbald5066 see this is why we all hate each other cause yees are all fannies I hes talking pish but then ye need ay come oot way some pish about brexit sorry but Marcus said it best ye dont care about the collar around yer neck just whos hawding it pipe doon n dont be wan ay they greeting face "remainer" pricks
Looking back I would suggest that much of the social troubles in Glasow back then (and today) was down to the crude hatred between the Glasgow Rangers (Protestant) and Glasgow Celtic (Catholic) football fans (tribes)!!
50 years later in Southern England I hear 40 - something folks whining how their delivery of super-expensive tiles for their en suite will take 3 days to appear - to enhance the hideously over priced designer sanitary ware from a bathroom boutique- and how the fellas whom actually fits the things are too expensive . That’s Misery in today’s deprived society where I live. ....☹️
I’m from paisley and don’t get me wrong it’s not this bad however it’s still bad schemes fighting drug dealing drinking canny hang aboot a scheme ur no fae for that long and I grew up doing it all but I think there’s no way of ending it in Glasgow/paisley it’s when u grow up ur uncles , cousins and of all yer da geez u that mentality of fighting and protecting a scheme
Glaswegian's in general are lovely people. The knife culture has and always will be part of Glasgow. I find this depressing. Although the Gallowgate is almost finished, I find it so depressing that there you still see young people with facial scars, after being cut from one side of their mouth to the next. Glasgow is a big beautiful city with impressive architecture of black and yellow sandstone. I wish the knife crime would stop and the drug problem was tackled.
Bullshit. Gangs are dead in Glasgow. There is a tiny minority everywhere, but Glasgow is an example to every other city how to deal with it. Glasgow has turned into one of the safest cities in the world.
@@brianmchugh7679 feels safe as fuck mate. Been coming to Glasgow a hell of a lot over the last six or seven years. I have friends that lived in Govanhill although they’ve moved to Paisley now. Glasgow centre feels safer than Manchester City centre where I come from for sure. Love Glasgow and will move up someday. The missus loves it also
To tackle the drug problem we need to target poverty and corruption in government. A recent post in the Edinburgh Scotsman had given praise to a multi million concert hall development in the new town area of the city. In the Edinburgh evening news reports of a Leith community center being closed due to lack of funding along with Nicola Sturgeon stating millions in aid to the Ukraine. With funding like that for what those corrupt politicians see as more necessary appropriation of funds how on earth can we make sure our children and society prosper. At least in the 70/80s there had been community centers. Keep the poorer people in poor education, separate society and keep the peasants scared of eachother and not focused on governmental crimes
Broke down in Queenslie in the 80s as a teenager… it was nearly 11pm 🕚, asked a girl with a pram if there was a phone box and she laughed out loud and said I might get one in Easterhouse next door but not in Queenslie 😳 I walked up to a few dozen kids hanging about and nobody spoke to me when I asked questions, they must have thought I was crazy. Flagged down a paddy wagon 👮♀️and they told me to get in the back, they took me to the AA depot that was nearby and I was relayed home to Edinburgh 😅. I hear the area is alright now 🤔
I ran about with the Cumbie from the Gorbals in Glasgow in the Sixties I was up to all sorts and fought with the Shamrock and the Tongs and a whole lot more, I got stabbed and was slashed by a bottle, it was just part of growing up then,changed days thank God lol
I am in teaching. Brought up the hard way in London. Moved away to get a better opportunity. I feel for these people. This video is a great insight into how life was for a minority. Obviously, the will to survive meant sticking together. The politicians sound shady! But how did many turn out eventually in life? Does life like this still exist in places like this? You say it ( the slashing & stabbing ) was part of growing up...Was there not another way? I imagine a lot of wasted lives as well as a lack of choice in life back then, thanks to the politics to a certain extent. Good to know that some people made it in life but pity not all have. A lesson learnt here in this video.
50 years on, still the same old problems. They built a multi million pound shopping complex called the Fort right next to Easterhouse. Do you think people from Easterhouse got given jobs to work there? Did they fuck. Its sick because there's already a shopping centre in Easterhouse called the Shandwick centre. People of the housing scheme have fond memories of the Shandwick, but it needs some money to regenerate it. They wouldn't do that though, not when they can plow even more money into the Fort, which is always extending. Its just another case of corporate greed. Don't ever forget that the only reason Easterhouse was built was so that they could ship all the 'poor' folk to the absolute edges of the city, to make way for the rich & fat cats. Research that if you don't believe me. That's why its mostly all fields & farmland. The same thing happened when they built Castlemilk on the other side of the city, which is very reminiscent of Easterhouse, by looks & the problems they share. They both lack adequate housing, they both have gang fight problems, poverty & drugs. Its all been going on for decades. The truth is that they don't give a shit & it'll never change. That's not pessimism, its just straight up truth.
@@colinhathaway9493 It's worth a read if you like your literature "fiction based on real life", but apart from running around carving people's faces up the worst thing the protagonist does (if my memory serves me well) is piss in the sink. Of course, for the 1930s that was utterly scandalous!
@@LOLCAMz Why then, has Glasgow's Violence Reduction Unit been praised for their success & is now being considered by the Metropolitan Police in London ?
My grandfather grew up in Glasgow. I think it conditioned him to fight through to Normandy. He married a direct descendant of rob roy. On the subject of anger my grandmother would beat the snot out of these teens.
Once i worked alongside two retired CID Officers. They're insights and recollections regarding this era were fascinating. Thank you for furthering my knowledge with this upload.
Criminals In Deed. Hope you got your "cut" of their take. You weren't likely to get promoted to DC back then unless you were willing to do as criminals would.
These Schemes were such a soulless and insulting gesture...so much needed to be done, so much still needs to be done: namely, a return to meaning and creativity for ALL...if people have meaning in their lives, community truly thrives.
Well, many estates and housing were focused around the work, which gave meaning and money, and so other enterprises sprung up around them. Many of the jobs went from the 60s onwards, especially in the 80s, when the working class died a death, as their estates were blitzed too around the same time. There are many Likely Lads in the UK singing ooo what happened to you, whatever happened to me, and what became of the people, we used to meet. It was though Britain died. Thatcher did say there was no such thing as community. If there was, there certainly isn't now, thanks to her. The t_rd of a maniac.
The people who hand in their weapons in during an amnesty aren't the people we need to worry about. They truly dangerous people don't hand in their weapons
I was in the quality street gang in Manchester .They called me Norman the nutmeg nutter . Scar face Tommy the raspberry ripple was my right hand man ..Hazel nut mad Annie had a tatoo of me on her forehead . Eddie the eclair enforcer made sure we all paid our annual subscription charge on time . Shotgun charlie the cauliflower eared caramel from moss side made sure the parking wardens put no parking tickets on our vehcles . Fatty Freddie the flick knife fudge didn't like you talking about the size of his belly
During the late 70s ❤I remember seeing guys fighting with samurai swords. That was the worst, seeing people fighting was very normal. Moved to England in 1980 it all stopped,although it took some years for me to relax around new people and to trust strangers.
I met a Scots guy some 25 yrs ago, and he had been in sword fights with a gang. He was greatly surprised that he was sill alive. He was about 50 back then, so he would have been fighting in the 60s, 70s and 80s. He said they would just surprise attack a pub and wade in with their swords. He also stated that there were a no of occasions when he thought he would die.
I've seen Glasgow hooligans machete somebody to death on TH-cam, knives and machetes are the thing now, or is this a while ago? You can see many people who have 'Glasgow-grins' and all kinds of wounds from knive fights/attacks there. Wow... Tough town.
Glasgow is worse now under a SNP government. Labour and SNP would loathe the day Glasgow was back to work. I hope Glasgow once known as the worlds 2nd capital can reinvent itself for the best.
Good to see that politicians were blaming residents for their own circumstances and lack of community facilities. Nothing has changed still no youths clubs or community centres.
Wee Joes' logic is pure gang mentality " if ( the guy we just plunged) he is lying screaming on the ground he's not dead so he's ok and no need to worry" … " if he is screaming he's ok" …
this documentary has everything, great clothes and style, well meaning community activists, sociological perspectives, violent police, left snd right wing arguments, a guy with a cigarette holder who owns a night club and finally celebrity. More seriously though, violent crime with weapons is sometimes presented as a race issue, its clearly more a poverty thing.
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I was once in a 'Razor Gang'. Unfortunately due to cuts, we had to disband
daniel titmus sounds like you had a close shave 😩😩
you weren't the sharpest blade in the tool box maybe?
I heard you were not too sharp
Wow Quite a Hairy situation you'd put yourself in
Wow and just in the nick of time
I'm a taxi driver in Glasgow and even today some of these guys who were involved with the different gangs and are now "old men" still carry blades of some sort! (Just incase) ;)
Some people are proud of this,!!!!!!! enough said
I remember a group called scheme well known back in day from cranhill Glasgow was hard going growing up but wouldn't change it I've learned so much being brought up in Glasgow and the people are friendly it's drink and drugs that the problem no jobs prospects
My family is from Cranhill too
Watching documentaries likes this is very educational......"the best a man can get" really.
Strange days for sure.
PEACE.
With regard to the woman saying working class teenagers are treated the same as middle class. The middle classes in Glasgow will not give the working class the steam off of their piss. They are completely invested in those who have moved to Glasgow from other countries and those who are actually from here can bounce. Those in charge of the funding and allocation in many cases have a tenuous link to Glasgow and indeed Scotland, they go from city to city and in some cases country to country following the money and changing those cities to how they like them which is absolutely nothing what they looked like twenty years previous demographic wise. This applies across politics, the media, academia, publishing, the Arts, entertainment etc. Treacherous barstewards.
7:02 that police totally took that wee guy in an gave him a cheeky slap! From fighting and struggling to needs 2 guys jus te carry him to the pig van! That's what the police should still be able to do.
Aye, they seemed to bundle him through a set of doors then drag him back out after a few seconds. What's the betting he was given a bit of a vicious kicking, dragged away and sent on his way with a few cracked ribs and a couple of black eyes and no further action taken? Perhaps in most cases that type of rough justice worked, but how many times did it result in life changing injuries and death? Is it right that the Police should have the power to tackle violence with violence and act like thugs themselves. Just look at what that type of rough justice did to Liddle Towers....
hellfiregrowler well ye see this is the age old argument how to dish out 'justice' appropriately the police these days are a completely different beast to the police of back then the red tape alone ties the hands. Yes some police officers are bully types but not all, I spent my entire youth thinking the same old shite everyone thought "fuck the police, they're all cunts" and it was after growing up and realising the majority of them are just trying to do their job (and a difficult one too) so I think yes the police should be able to trade violence for violence, and I think the majority of situations iv heard of the police these days have dealt with the situation with professionalism because it's their job if they don't.
I respect your opinion and a very fair one too. I agree most Coppers are not pricks but sadly there still are a fair few that are, just look at policing at the football. They are, as you say earning a crust to feed their families so are no different to any other working man and woman and we would be in a very bad way without an effective law and order system. Although most people on the receiving and of police brutality have probably "asked for it" or "deserved" it, I just feel a system where its acceptable for the Police to be able to beat people leads us into the realms of an oppressive police state we all agree (I imagine) would be a regressive step and a threat to our own civil liberties.
hellfiregrowler I grew up in a fairly isolated town in south west Scotland in the 80's and 90's I myself know of people and have been the recipient of a swift dig in the ribs by a pissed off police officer iv known of people receiving the dreaded mattress punishment were they'd truncheon ye threw a mattress (apparently leaves less of a bruise) and I can tell ye we did deserve it. However I've also lived in Glasgow for 10 year or so in my adult life and dealt with the police on a few different occasions and it was a very different experience altogether due to the fact I wasn't a wee fanny and I dealt out as much respect as I was given and I was promptly and proverbialy slapped on the wrist and told te bugger off as they had better things to do. And I promptly buggered off on my way, happy and not arrested. Now you can view the same stereotyping through a few different professions bouncers and bar staff for instance or even the armed forces on occasion, are viewed as being bully types or angry and short tempered now iv worked as both bar staff and in the military and I know a good few door staff and away from work they or I are usually very friendly people but while working arguably deal with more fannys than your other types of work. So it makes you a bit bitter and short because drunk people or angry idiots are very volatile people and are very very difficult do deal with, so I doth my cap to all these professions for every day they don't slap some titt for standing shouting profanities right in your face. So let's not give them too hard a time, because you can always say "I'd deal with it this way" however until your face to face with these issues on a daily basis you never truly know how you would actually deal with it.
who will bring justice when police break laws?
This Week documentary, Thames TV 1968.
Did he say 'Hatchet's' ? Instead of using fist's wtf that's insane
yes hatchets, now its moslty machetes.. in my day it was bayonets, and butchers knives…
It's accurate.
nowadays people carry tramontana blades or lock back knifes , but you do get the odd guy with a short machete a hammer or an axe and something razor sharp to open up your face if the manage to knock you out.....
very interesting church bloke was a diamond
20.50 Joe's wearing gloves so as not to leave his fingerprints on the glass.
Peaky Blinders brought me here
The middle class woman at around 22 mins was living in a fantasy world
"London is a new Glasgow" we can say now :P
not even close giving that in the early 2000s glasgow had just over 3 times as many stabbings per capita this is why london turned to glasgow to ask for help before it possibly gets out of hand but saying that londons getting better already!
No wonder drink consumption is 5 times higher.
The whisky tastes like nectar - The life giving drink of the Gods
(Englishman)
is that joe devline they interviewed ? i know him from when he lived on roystonhill also know were he got his razors? friend of mine in the day worked at a barbers down town and he threaten him to get him them. moved to canada 2 yrs later 1976 was in the big glen on royston rd visiting my mum who walks in but him said hi next day in sunday mail see he has been arrested for murder??? anybody who lived in the toonheed garngad have a million stories they can tell some good some bad some funny it was glasgow in the day when i left glasgow in 74 my first wife came from blackhill now there lots of stories? went back 29 yrs with new wife meeting my bro at drummond bar on gordon st i think and a guy get stab just just before we get ? welcome home ???????
gord drummond .that's big Joe your spot on the big man is out after is lifer .back in the Garngad
joe devline looks like a young John Forgeham who played the villain Brindley in the old 1983 TV series Give us a break
Soz for butting in, but Joe Devlin is alive and well after serving a life sentence? After watching the above video I thought out of all the lads he would be the one dead by now!
Ma pal stabbed a cunt in springhall when we wur 15 but both a them ur deed noo
I was in quite a nice gang, we only used safety razors. It was called the Gillette GIIs, not the greatest but at the time, the best a man could get.
A wiz in ra dinky toy gang.🤣🤣🤣
You were obviously a cut above the rest😊
Hampered by Woke ideology.
I was in the Philips Posse. We could only operate within range of a shaver socket.
Health and safety 1st then the glaswiegen smile
Cemetery’s are full of tough guys.
So are the jails
Mugs game.
Full of soft guys too. Everyone dies, eventually.
@@markhemming318 if we die eventually,why we born?
@@stayrospaparunas3062
Google the question.
6:56 the coppers drag a kid (just smacked another kid) back into the club - a few seconds later, he's dragged back out again in cuffs completely unconscious. Those were the days!!
Yeah I bet you love it when your rights get violated by the police. You probably purposely speed to get pulled over so you can get your rocks off by consenting to search.
He fell lol
That was nothing. Compared to what you were getting back at the cop shop if you were unlucky enough to be arrested lol
@@jasonm7973 comparing speeding to punching someone in the face???
Jason M is obviously a pink and fluffy lefty bless!! ‘Mummy the nasty Policeman roughed me up a bit.. Waaaaah!!’ 😂😂😂
What a great thing TH-cam is showing these social history documentaries. Where else would you get it,this was shown 50 years ago on television and has probably never been repeated on television,but TH-cam and other social media and the internet in general you can watch it anytime to your hearts content. I wonder have any of the people shown in this Razor gangs episode seen themselves on TH-cam as the 17 year olds are all about 67 years old now.
Paul Dunne
Was that you?
jayboy009 No i was born two years later in 1970.
Fuck up
da phuk What are you trying to say to me?
still goes on today
"Pontificating from vacuums of inexperience" - beautifully put and the hobby of most of us these days!
@@jamesmcindoe5190 - you are a big tube
Such intelligence and decency from Mr. Webster - real action is what we need right now - self management and mutual aid. His observations on the wilful destruction of community which was later completed by that vicious, treacherous, uppity, chav Thatcher as root cause of the problems shown here and prolific today was sadly prophetic.
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great documentary - never understood a fucking word
Mr Orange Yeah I get you there. I could grasp what they were saying, but it wouldn't be the first time I've saw documentaries covering the same situation, but up to date in the 2000's, that have had to put subtitles up probably for the English, but I've never had a problem understanding them, apart from the odd "what the hell did he say there?" Yes had that.
Well nice to have commented back to you. Have a nice day. Cheers...Paul. (Auld Skool) Well if approaching 52 in November says it, fair enough, it's only a number, I feel and look 35!
That does my head in, I mean at least get close!...Paul.
Paul Glancy - I lived in falkirk and then Stirling for 4yrs,. So I'm only kidding mate
haha nice one fella,sectarian bollox they are Scots not Irish,They want to be Irish but sadly they never will as they are Scots,as for the little shit at 1.30 he couldn't knock his granny off the piss pot,hard bastard with a blade mind
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I was a junior doctor in Glasgow Royal infirmary in 1978 to 1979 . I say many razor and knife wounds . The worst time by far was Saturday evening after a Celtic Rangers match . I would see as many as 12 to 15 razor and stab wounds . We even had a clinic solely for patients who had been stabbed . GRI’S proudest boast a “ Stab injury returns clinic . I think it’s miles better now . D
@desmondmccann782 I think I read somewhere that the Southern General was a world renowned head injury hospital, because they saw so many cracked and broken heads. I think they devised the Glasgow coma scale which has been used globally.
There was also a notable rise in incidents of domestic violence on days of Celtic/Rangers matches.
The rest of the world was taking massive amounts of decent Acid, getting into peace and love, listening to Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix. Meanwhile in Scotland :-)
😂😂😂
Meanwhile in scotland smack and blades are rampant and the natives are restless 🙈💁
@John Barber ha ha yes
@@OdinSmilesRavensLaugh72051 he cracked a good joke. You ruined it.
@@andymclaughlin22 Matter of opinion
That sergeant was out of touch when he said anyone could walk anywhere....this was bollocks
He was clearly under orders to play it down. Couldn't mention 'gangs'!
wungabunga Nothing changes😂It’s like they do these days, relabel things, so they sound more inoffensive!
Those guys the unspeakables with their blue vans were the worst criminals around, mostly fitting up innocent kids. You know it big Cyril McWanker was one of the worst.
He was clearly told to play it down.
He wasn’t out of touch at all he was straight up lying 😂
The vast majority of these gangs were NOT divided by religion. YES there were some ie. The Billy Boys but as one person has already said most were just where you happened to live on a Scheme. There could even be 3 or 4 gangs in the same Scheme.
That's not to underestimate the issues in the West of Scotland with sectarianism, which was horrendous and ingrained in society.
Personal choice and taking responsibility for one's actions is key. My ex grew up in Glasgow in a run-down area. He scurried around like a little alley cat in the backstreets and through holes in fences to avoid the violence. When he was sixteen, he persuaded his parents to emigrate to Canada, citing economic reasons, as they earned only enough money for rent and groceries. But the real reason, which he never told his parents, was that he was being pressured to join a gang. When he came to Canada in 1966, he was still on high alert against attack, but he soon realized that it was a lot more peaceful and nobody wanted to pick a fight with him.
He didn't play ice hockey then?
Personal choice and responsibility? You mean his mum and dad had the financial wherewithall to move 3,000 to another country? There were areas in Glasgow back then where the average life expectancy was around 50. Personal choice?
@@gab99 Yes, personal choice. His family was poor. For weeks on end, all they had to eat was chips and eggs. Sometimes they had no coal to heat their home. But little miracles happened for them to supply their needs.
Ian's father was a farm labourer, working for a man who bought estates, improved them, then sold them. Later, Jan worked as the custodian of a church in Glasgow. He couldn't read or write, as he was dyslexic. But my mother-in-law was a woman of faith. God told her many years before that He was going to send her as a missionary to some Indians and showed them to her in a vision. She was willing to go to India, but she thought those people God showed her were odd-looking Indians. It turns out that her mission field was in Canada to the Cree tribe in Alberta.
It was God who moved on Ian to want to leave Scotland. It's always good to have the kids on board with a decision to move to another country. It seemed like there was no way in they would be approved for immigration due to his parents' health issues, but Ian's mother figured it was worth a try. Their health problems did not show up on the medical tests.
They sold their furniture. One way or another, the money came in for the family to afford the fare on the Empress of Canada. A job was obtained for Ian and his father the day after they arrived in Canada, on a stud farm, which was terrific because Ian loved animals and had always taken good care of his pets. He was a hard worker, too. His boss wanted to pay for him to train to be his farm manager.
Ian did not want to be obligated to the man his whole life, though, so he turned down that opportunity and worked in a mill, then in construction, and eventually as an iron worker before he retired.
Ian and his father gave up their job on the stud farm because God told his mother that they were going to move and their new job would pay only half what Ian and his father presently earned. So, his father gave notice and their boss tried to persuade them to not leave. They got packed up and, three days from the end of the month, they still did not know where to go. But Ian's father got a phone call that day from a man in Alberta who owned a turkey farm and said he was desperate for help. He was shocked when Jan said that they were ready to go. It was as Mary said; they were paid only half of what they previously earned.
But their new home was right next to a Cree reservation. The chief and his wife were Christians and gave Mary permission to visit the natives on their reserve. She ministered there for many years.
Everyone has the opportunity to be reconciled to God through Jesus Christ and ask Him for help with what they need. He is willing, able, and eager to help. The Bible gives guidelines for how to ask and what to ask for.
hope his kids persuade him to come back before they are forced to change gender
I’m ex forces from 80 s I know how to look after myself all these people want is a tribe a pack a sence of belonging and a faith in directions catch them young and spare them the misery God bless all. We all want to belong
The Army recruited a lot of great soldiers from Easterhouse .
Ha ha my dad was in an Easterhouse gang and joined the Royal Highland Fusiliers in 1963. He was a total madman, he would nick anything that wasn't tied down.
"The Spur from Bridgeton" Big mistake, the Spur are from Barrowfield!
"They are handing in their weapons"- cuts to young guy walking with a huge axe!
Kids that join gangs always blame it on poverty, but most people that grow up in poverty don't get involved in it. It's less about poverty and more about the adrenaline rush and trying to look big in front of your mates.
not dat n e 1 perfect but I think it gos down 2 environment.
So true , we were taught to pick up litter if we see it and say please and thankyou, just because ya poor doesn't mean you can't be kind and not a messy gobby anti social headbanger,one family can ruin an entire neighbourhood 😅
My cousin was the leader aff of
the Car - D. ..at least , that's what he told me..?
Like how when whites are in these conditions the narrative is that they're just thugs, when blacks are in these environments suddenly you lot start talking about sociology of it all.. funny how that works.
Cutting edge stuff here.
A wee bitty edgy !!
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I grew up on the southside in the 70s, Castlemilk same problems though we didnt have to suffer Frankie Vaughn.
Shame on you, you missed all the singing and dancing! Come to the Cabaret old chum, come to the Cabaret.
There are some entertaining moments in this video:
6:33 - one punch knockout.
8:53 - the dumbass says anyone can safely walk, or walk safely, down any street in Glasgow, somehow I don't think that was the case.
14:04 - my favourite part of the video - wanker.
Weren't you killed off by the Brigton Derry Billy Boys?
Can you imagine if someone at 8.53 decides to attack him, and his police mates. You was saying , sir?
When i served in the army when i passed p coy we had about 5 scottish lads on the course and all of them passed theyre just headstrong people who get on with it and dont give up ,i bet the Brigade alone was about 30% scottish
Aye many Jocks in 1 Para 😂🪂✌️
For all their patronising style, documentaries like this showed something that most people didn't really know much about. Today, our documentary makers seem to afraid to talk to people who are violent or who have markedly different lifestyles. Understanding suffers as a consequence.
Back when 17 year olds looked like still game characters
One of the great things about Scotlands youth today is that as a whole they just don’t have that violence in them. I know they still have their headbangers, but in my experience the things shown here were still prevalent through the 1970’s. Somethings changed for the better.
Great documentary! Thank you! ..... Wouldn't it be interesting, to see how these young people, got on, in their future lives??? I think the makers of the show, should try to track down the surviving ones, and do a documentary on what happened next! .... A bit like the uk '7 UP,' series, where a group of 7 year old kids, were filmed in, i think 1963, then every 7 years, right up to the present day! xx
Great comment, yeah, would be interesting 👍
I suspect many of them would have been in jail or dead . Stupid gang culture.
@@Actingskint Sadly, i think you may be right. xx
I was in barlinnie prison back then, but now here in Australia at 68 I am planning on starting my life at 70 going up to the tropics hunting and fishing,using my 2 pensions $40k+ margin loan @80%=$200k+ write monthly options 10-30% a year=$220-260k jogging, lift weights, work out....oh and over 170k stalkers over the years, now that's another amazing story.
@@bigups737 That's amazing! Have fun!
Even with half a century's hindsight, it's still impossible to generalise a single cause of Glasgow's problems. Need to bear in mind that the gangs weren't newly formed in 1967: they'd been on the go for many decades before, and had mainly been spawned by sectarian divisions, reflected in the housing/ living situations of the working class. Interesting wee film, thanks for the upload...
I always thought it was because Glaswegians were thick as shit.
I blame the weather
Skirts on men and cold knackers cant help.
Glasgow Gallus...the problem is Scots. If Scotland wasn't full of them there wouldn't be a problem
Edward Longshanks said that
14:06 kid shouting out "WANKER"! lmfao brilliant.
I don't think that's what he's saying
I think it was.
🤣 I think that's exactly what he said mate!
Yes!!!!!!....LOL
I read a book about the Dieppe battle in WW2. The author states that a number of the Commando's were recruited from Glasgow razor gangs. Sometimes violent men are needed to fight violent men.
Spot on 🏴
Limmy trained me to understand all of these words
Same though
They be wuds, nay 'words', ya dafty
Phar-macy?
When you wore a tie and collar if you were in a gang. Could do with subtitles though.
I like the bit where the kid hits the copper, a bus goes by, and then the kid's seen being dragged off unconscious "Fell down the stairs M'lud."
Bloody hell..the mods were alive and kicking still in 1968 Glasgow !!
That's nothing ! Teds were still a thing in Fife up till recently. Middle aged guys with quiffs and winkle pickers was a common sight in
some pubs. Probably still is...?
@@2msvalkyrie529 Finding winkle pickers can’t be easy. Thats not fashion lethargy, getting left behind, that’s dedication.
@@trsrctab7019 SHAWLAND TONGS, .RULE. PAL...YER CLAIMED PAL
Quite scary watching this but need to bring these lads back to this era and sort out the bam pots we have nowadays not praising these guys but don't think they were muggers they were only doing at the time what was right as they fought the different gangs from alover , they would not atack old guys walking home from pub which happens nowadays ,they never had computers nothing never bring these people down,it was a different world then when you look at what's going on in this world now these guys were only sorting out who wanted to to chalenge and fight it was the way it was in all city's in the UK back then ,these guys were hard now a days they are scum slashing and frowning acid in faces of I nocent people bring these lads back to sort them out cheers lads ,
Young men, not scared to go into the Bar L.
Sad really. Last bit, I had cadets with good guys like this man and it saved me absolutely right.
I know barlinnie has ruined a lot a lives.
They got the community centre but never got rid of the crackpots ☹
There were 90,000 people living in the Gorbals alone a small area district close to the city centre.
My mate's granddad used to working in the Glasgow shipyards, he used to put razor blades in his jacket lapels so if anyone grabbed them they would immediately let go and he would hit them with his flat cap that had a lead weight sewn into the back of it.
your mates grand daddy sounds like he is a right action man😁
A very old tall tale
god that police officer at 07,13 looks like the photofit for Bible John the 60s glagow serial killer.
I thought that when i seen him lol he looks so like the photofit you never know .
Bang on pal.
Jesus jonie. The resemblance is uncanny. I’ve always thought it was Peter Tobin right enough
17 years old , that's middle age in Scotland.
Peter Neijs lmao! Good one
Idiot
Peter Neijs ..
Peter Neijs Ah KNOW
8ightBitKid Eesturhoose
For most of the 70s my mother used to take my brother and I from our house outside London to Easterhouse to visit her friends at New Year. Imagine the fun the local thugs had hunting down the English boys, it was scary. We learned how to run fast...
Ben Dover aye fuck off ya bean don’t hear English names in Scotland it’s all Mac’s and Irish names
Where did u get that statistic from. Never heard so much pish, no doubt ur a brexit fanny 😁👍
@Ben Dover partly indian hahahahahahahahabababahahahahahahsbsbabsbabsbshshshahahahaha no way man aye mate jokes on us😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@keithbald5066 see this is why we all hate each other cause yees are all fannies I hes talking pish but then ye need ay come oot way some pish about brexit sorry but Marcus said it best ye dont care about the collar around yer neck just whos hawding it pipe doon n dont be wan ay they greeting face "remainer" pricks
@Ben Dover fact is your country is like half Muslim
14:07 Ah the traditional Glasgow welcome! :)
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I wonder what those youngsters are doing now? Retired old men of course but it'd be interesting to see them view this documentary now.....
Dead! Bloody fried foods.
@@goalltheway-pm8xs yeap fried potatoes kill more ppl than gangs
Looking back I would suggest that much of the social troubles in Glasow back then (and today) was down to the crude hatred between the Glasgow Rangers (Protestant) and Glasgow Celtic (Catholic) football fans (tribes)!!
50 years later in Southern England I hear 40 - something folks whining how their delivery of super-expensive tiles for their en suite will take 3 days to appear - to enhance the hideously over priced designer sanitary ware from a bathroom boutique- and how the fellas whom actually fits the things are too expensive . That’s Misery in today’s deprived society where I live. ....☹️
@@K_j_M Some people like Glasgow, others attack it. For the latter ones, it would be a good thing if they too buried the hatchet.
I’m from paisley and don’t get me wrong it’s not this bad however it’s still bad schemes fighting drug dealing drinking canny hang aboot a scheme ur no fae for that long and I grew up doing it all but I think there’s no way of ending it in Glasgow/paisley it’s when u grow up ur uncles , cousins and of all yer da geez u that mentality of fighting and protecting a scheme
Glaswegian's in general are lovely people. The knife culture has and always will be part of Glasgow. I find this depressing. Although the Gallowgate is almost finished, I find it so depressing that there you still see young people with facial scars, after being cut from one side of their mouth to the next. Glasgow is a big beautiful city with impressive architecture of black and yellow sandstone. I wish the knife crime would stop and the drug problem was tackled.
Bullshit. Gangs are dead in Glasgow. There is a tiny minority everywhere, but Glasgow is an example to every other city how to deal with it. Glasgow has turned into one of the safest cities in the world.
@@brianmchugh7679 agreed man you'll only find a handful of mouthy pricks sometimes but never any real gangs with real danger.
@@brianmchugh7679 feels safe as fuck mate. Been coming to Glasgow a hell of a lot over the last six or seven years. I have friends that lived in Govanhill although they’ve moved to Paisley now. Glasgow centre feels safer than Manchester City centre where I come from for sure. Love Glasgow and will move up someday. The missus loves it also
To tackle the drug problem we need to target poverty and corruption in government.
A recent post in the Edinburgh Scotsman had given praise to a multi million concert hall development in the new town area of the city.
In the Edinburgh evening news reports of a Leith community center being closed due to lack of funding along with Nicola Sturgeon stating millions in aid to the Ukraine. With funding like that for what those corrupt politicians see as more necessary appropriation of funds how on earth can we make sure our children and society prosper.
At least in the 70/80s there had been community centers.
Keep the poorer people in poor education, separate society and keep the peasants scared of eachother and not focused on governmental crimes
@@colinhathaway9493 och aye the noo Jimmy
''I've never been stabbed, but I can imagine it being somewhat inconvenient.'' - Kevin Bridges 🤣🤣
You're a bright spark. Must have flourished at school.
@@markhemming318You should check out the comedian from Glasgow, he's referring to.
But he could avoid all that unpleasantness, in the current financial climate for a mere pound
Broke down in Queenslie in the 80s as a teenager… it was nearly 11pm 🕚, asked a girl with a pram if there was a phone box and she laughed out loud and said I might get one in Easterhouse next door but not in Queenslie 😳 I walked up to a few dozen kids hanging about and nobody spoke to me when I asked questions, they must have thought I was crazy. Flagged down a paddy wagon 👮♀️and they told me to get in the back, they took me to the AA depot that was nearby and I was relayed home to Edinburgh 😅. I hear the area is alright now 🤔
I ran about with the Cumbie from the Gorbals in Glasgow in the Sixties I was up to all sorts and fought with the Shamrock and the Tongs and a whole lot more, I got stabbed and was slashed by a bottle, it was just part of growing up then,changed days thank God lol
I am in teaching. Brought up the hard way in London. Moved away to get a better opportunity.
I feel for these people.
This video is a great insight into how life was for a minority. Obviously, the will to survive meant sticking together.
The politicians sound shady!
But how did many turn out eventually in life?
Does life like this still exist in places like this?
You say it ( the slashing & stabbing ) was part of growing up...Was there not another way?
I imagine a lot of wasted lives as well as a lack of choice in life back then, thanks to the politics to a certain extent.
Good to know that some people made it in life but pity not all have.
A lesson learnt here in this video.
A mind ma ma shoutin Cumbie ya Bass seemingly i shouted it masel oboot 3 year old
@@john5155 Yeah. Whatever you say, you must surely know!
Ain’t gotta a F-ing clue wotcha ona bout but I’m agreein’ wit yu’r anyways!
do you fight wae your fists? naw! says everything you need to know about that guy.
Coz every other cunt had weapons in that so there obvs no gonna use there fist mongo
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17 going on 50
Wonder how many years that blokes done since 68.
50 years on, still the same old problems. They built a multi million pound shopping complex called the Fort right next to Easterhouse. Do you think people from Easterhouse got given jobs to work there? Did they fuck. Its sick because there's already a shopping centre in Easterhouse called the Shandwick centre. People of the housing scheme have fond memories of the Shandwick, but it needs some money to regenerate it. They wouldn't do that though, not when they can plow even more money into the Fort, which is always extending. Its just another case of corporate greed. Don't ever forget that the only reason Easterhouse was built was so that they could ship all the 'poor' folk to the absolute edges of the city, to make way for the rich & fat cats. Research that if you don't believe me. That's why its mostly all fields & farmland. The same thing happened when they built Castlemilk on the other side of the city, which is very reminiscent of Easterhouse, by looks & the problems they share. They both lack adequate housing, they both have gang fight problems, poverty & drugs. Its all been going on for decades. The truth is that they don't give a shit & it'll never change. That's not pessimism, its just straight up truth.
1960's Political Correctness - bouncer = dance floor supervisor; gang violence = group disorder. And so the mess started.
I stayed in shanwick street easterhoose, loved my stay there saw a lot of gang fights as well.
Who remembers reading "No Mean City" about like in the Gorbals? I read it in the 70s as a kid but never knew it was written in 1935.
Aye.
Yep. The Razor King.
Where's oor Peaky Blinders show? Teddy boys kickin' aboot wi razor sewn in the lapels of their blazers.
Never read it but my dads mentioned it to me
@@colinhathaway9493 It's worth a read if you like your literature "fiction based on real life", but apart from running around carving people's faces up the worst thing the protagonist does (if my memory serves me well) is piss in the sink. Of course, for the 1930s that was utterly scandalous!
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Looks pretty rough back then, and a decade later along came heroin and made it even more bleak.
N E D S
Brilliant piece of history. Thank you for uploading.
1968 saw hundreds of born 'n' bred Scotsmen stabbing one another in Glesga
2018 saw hundreds of non English immigrants stabbing one another in London.
They needed jobs and recreational facilities
Andrew Hall same as the people In London !!
And then ecstacy came along in the late 80s and the chibbing changed to cuddles.
😂 spot on mate
Lmao
Then crack and smack came along in the 90's the those cuddles quickly shifted back to chibs 😂😂😂😂
my grandad was born nd lived in the gorbals, he managed to move out nd now lives in East London, got bare respect for the man
Fk me bet he wishes he was back hame
Talk properly then.
@@JustDaniel6764 alright grandad
He'd probably have chibbed ye for talking like that.
Interesting documentary, great to see progress that Glasgow has made.
Progress??
Nothing has changed in Glasgow
Aye google Moodiesburn see how the progress is working
@@justintime1307what a complete lie
@@LOLCAMz Why then, has Glasgow's Violence Reduction Unit been praised for their success & is now being considered by the Metropolitan Police in London ?
It's like that old joke." Have you seen the new Viagra eye drops." , They make you look hard.
My grandfather grew up in Glasgow. I think it conditioned him to fight through to Normandy. He married a direct descendant of rob roy. On the subject of anger my grandmother would beat the snot out of these teens.
It’s amazing how many Americans of Scottish heritage think they are descended from Rob Roy 😂
@@Paratus7 Elanor Macgregor married George mearns. She was born in Aberdeen my dad was in the blitz they came to Australia. Direct descendant.
I've got something to say, Its better to burn out than fade away...My Scotland.
Max Marshall the chive never sleeps
I went to Glasgow once for a good time it was great I came home in stitches !
The worst place I ve ever been to
@Moky
Come tae Glesga
We'll set aboot ye
Better than a close shave with those razors!
I was leader of the Wilkinson Swords
Once i worked alongside two retired CID Officers. They're insights and recollections regarding this era were fascinating. Thank you for furthering my knowledge with this upload.
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Criminals In Deed. Hope you got your "cut" of their take. You weren't likely to get promoted to DC back then unless you were willing to do as criminals would.
These Schemes were such a soulless and insulting gesture...so much needed to be done, so much still needs to be done: namely, a return to meaning and creativity for ALL...if people have meaning in their lives, community truly thrives.
Aye.
The highland clearances😢😢😢😢
Well, many estates and housing were focused around the work, which gave meaning and money, and so other enterprises sprung up around them. Many of the jobs went from the 60s onwards, especially in the 80s, when the working class died a death, as their estates were blitzed too around the same time. There are many Likely Lads in the UK singing ooo what happened to you, whatever happened to me, and what became of the people, we used to meet. It was though Britain died. Thatcher did say there was no such thing as community. If there was, there certainly isn't now, thanks to her. The t_rd of a maniac.
Work and money play a key role in a thriving society.
The people who hand in their weapons in during an amnesty aren't the people we need to worry about. They truly dangerous people don't hand in their weapons
At war politicians want you to be a roaring lions..
In peace they want you to be neutered kittens!
I’d be intimidated if I knew what the fuck they were saying.
You should do a then N now with some of these guys ✌️💚🇬🇧
I was in the quality street gang in Manchester .They called me Norman the nutmeg nutter . Scar face Tommy the raspberry ripple was my right hand man ..Hazel nut mad Annie had a tatoo of me on her forehead . Eddie the eclair enforcer made sure we all paid our annual subscription charge on time . Shotgun charlie the cauliflower eared caramel from moss side made sure the parking wardens put no parking tickets on our vehcles . Fatty Freddie the flick knife fudge didn't like you talking about the size of his belly
During the late 70s ❤I remember seeing guys fighting with samurai swords. That was the worst, seeing people fighting was very normal. Moved to England in 1980 it all stopped,although it took some years for me to relax around new people and to trust strangers.
I met a Scots guy some 25 yrs ago, and he had been in sword fights with a gang. He was greatly surprised that he was sill alive. He was about 50 back then, so he would have been fighting in the 60s, 70s and 80s. He said they would just surprise attack a pub and wade in with their swords. He also stated that there were a no of occasions when he thought he would die.
I remember seeing gangs fight with hatchets, swords, golf clubs, and chains. Just a typical Saturday night ….😢😢😢😢
I've seen Glasgow hooligans machete somebody to death on TH-cam, knives and machetes are the thing now, or is this a while ago? You can see many people who have 'Glasgow-grins' and all kinds of wounds from knive fights/attacks there. Wow... Tough town.
No. This was last week.
Funny how even in 1968 the term 'bouncer' was classed as outdated and you still hear it being said today, 50 years later 🙈
Things come and go and return and go
It BOUNCED back very quickly, did it not.
What is the current term…Door Steward ?
Glasgow is worse now under a SNP government.
Labour and SNP would loathe the day Glasgow was back to work.
I hope Glasgow once known as the worlds 2nd capital can reinvent itself for the best.
Could you elabourate under an SNP government,your actually talking pure crap.Tell me about "Loathe the day Glasgow was back at work" Ye nutter
Shut up hun
Glasgow can be the number one when free of England
Top cat the vet wants tae put yup doon numpty
Good to see that politicians were blaming residents for their own circumstances and lack of community facilities. Nothing has changed still no youths clubs or community centres.
More fun at a Glasgow chibbing than an Edinburgh wedding
STILL GAME LOL HAHAHA
Edinburgh had many mental gangs. Niddrie Terror Mental Drylaw Broomhouse Suicide Squad Young Leith Team Gillie Team Gracie Team Clerie Jungle TCR
Not unique to Glasgow.... was common in southern Italy 🇮🇹 in the 1800’s and early 20th century.... forerunner to the modern mafia
The lady at 14:54 could be straight from a Monty Python sketch.
Deviant by the look of it Glasgows answer to Mrs Brown 😂😂
Wee Joes' logic is pure gang mentality " if ( the guy we just plunged) he is lying screaming on the ground he's not dead so he's ok and no need to worry" … " if he is screaming he's ok" …
Joe isn’t right in the heed.
this documentary has everything, great clothes and style, well meaning community activists, sociological perspectives, violent police, left snd right wing arguments, a guy with a cigarette holder who owns a night club and finally celebrity. More seriously though, violent crime with weapons is sometimes presented as a race issue, its clearly more a poverty thing.