As an exiled Scot for over 55 years, this video brings back many memories of a simpler, and most likely a far less stressful, society than the divisive and troubled one we have inherited today. As a 16-year-old junior salesperson in Burtons in 1961 - first in Argyle Street, and then in Sauchiehall Street. I have so many positive and happy memories of a much simpler society - a society, sad to say, now gone forever.
Sorry to say you are so very wrong, it’s not the society that’s gone for ever, it’s your youth and it’s your youth you hunger for, when you had not a care or responsibility in the world. Glasgow now is a far better place than back then, it’s cleaner for a start, racism and sexism is gone, sectarianism remnants are still evident but nothing like what it was back then. The young people of the city are amazing, not interested if you are Protestant or Catholic and every shop, bar,restaurant, cinema you enter no longer stinks of stale cigarette smoke. It’s a brighter cleaner better city now. Lament the loss of your youth not the old dark smelly segregated Glasgow
@@Steampunksaly Bill , is it rose coloured glasses cloud your judgement , or APPEASEMENT like that of your namesake , John has his positive memories of a time and place you obviously detested . yet champion a society that forgives the darkest of crimes by those welcomed and shown hospitality because they may have suffered poverty and other hardship . . for fear of being labelled prejudiced , yet you readily condemned a time and place when the majority unlike your dismissive description had many a care in the world and suffered greatly for their responsibilities Glasgow certainly is much cleaner , and it's young are to be commended for their rejection of violence , so often experienced by their forebears . endured if not relished . Sectarianism and Racism are abhorrent to say the least , traits I'm happy to say never suffered or shown by a large extended family . RACE BAITERS are a whole other level of hate , just as I can't imagine hating another human because of their skin colour , I'm totally dismayed though with anyone who feels hatred towards their own skin colour . it really is scrapping the proverbial barrel , when your person of choice to put on a pedestal , is bereft of humanity and moral decency towards other men and women ,Unfortunately Racism is as prevalent as sexism misogyny homophobia in Glasgow and worldwide , though now predominantly used by those less likely to be accused of being capable of such . I'm glad for you that you see such positivity in the City my birthplace , though because you don't see or perhaps refuse to see , doesn't mean what others see isn't Truly there . In June 2020, following the murder of George Floyd in the USA, Yousaf gave a speech to the Scottish Parliament as part of a debate to show solidarity with anti-racism.[24] In the speech, Yousaf listed 15 positions of authority in Scotland held by white people, in order to illustrate that there were few non-white people in positions of power. Video clips of the speech were widely circulated online by conservative commentators, who argued that this was to be expected in a country where (according to the 2011 census) 96% of the population was white, and mocked Yousaf's style of delivery, in particular his emphasis of the word "white". As a result, Yousaf was the target of over 6,000 posts on social media
I was born in 1948 in the Gallowgate. The pictures and the music accompaniment are spot on, not sad but more nostalgic. Right now, as of the 23rd October, 2020, in this mad, mad world, it has brought me a lot ok comfort. I am in Lagos, Nigeria right now and feel very homesick.
Marvellous video - as a young apprentice I walked the streets of this wonderful city - the people ,warm and friendly - don't let the images of renewal depress you - the people are Glasgow - not the bricks and mortar !
Thanks, Mr Todd. The colour photo of Hope Street at Sauchiehall Street, June 1961, took me back to my childhood. I would have been 10 years old in 1961. This is the world we have lost, when people had a real pride in themselves and their city, which was reflected even in the way people dressed.
Fantastic Video, I was born in 1959, Lived in Partick, I remember the Old Glasgow, We moved time Livingston in 1972, but still visited Glasgow every Weekend, I love Glasgow, Thanks for the Memories👍
I Actually had a lump in my throat while watching this. The music, memories of late family and places I’ve been to as a teenager. Great stuff. Thank you for a wonderful trip down memory lane!
Glad you enjoyed the video George. Have you checked out my FaceBook page The Glasgow Chronicles yet? The page has over 48,000 followers, with thousands of photos from Glasgow going back to the 1950s through to the 1970s? Also, there is a webpage of the same name, if you aren't on Facebook. Also, please check out my other videos here on TH-cam. Kind regards, Ian.
Watching this video has jogged ďeep parts of my memory.making me remember images and sounds which I hadn't even known I'd forgotten .... growing up in Glasgow from the late 1950s through the 1960s. A beautiful video.Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed the video Phillipe. Have you checked out my FaceBook page The Glasgow Chronicles yet? The page has over 48,000 followers, with thousands of photos from Glasgow going back to the 1950s through to the 1970s? Also, there is a webpage of the same name, if you aren't on Facebook. Also, please check out my other videos here on TH-cam. Kind regards, Ian.
Thanks for posting, takes me back. I'm really interested in the Glasgow Hurricane Low storm which brought death and destruction to Glasgow and surrounding area on January 14th 1968. I can vividly remember hundreds of buildings with green tarpollens covering the roofs. I thought I may have seen some evidence of the storm in the photos as it was such a major event and many photos probably exist. Although I was only 10 at the time it was a night which will remain with me forever. On hearing music which was in the chart at the time brings it all back. Unforgettable.
Great collection of vivid coloured images..I also see one of my first place of employment, at Sellyns in Trongate..those were the days..thanks for posting.
The third pic with no location is the Boundary Bar terminus at Hawthorn Street, Springburn. The tram is going to Shawfield: replaced by the 18 bus to Shawfield, later changing to Polmadie and Burnside - all exotic unknown destinations when I was a child. Like this post if, like me, you often wondered what the destinations on your local buses were like?
I was brought up in Springburn from 1967 to 1990 - folks still live there. Great to see so many from the old Springburn including the pic of the Princes cinema in Gourley Street. Before tonight the only memory I have of the view was from the very early seventies when I was four or five years of age.
Thanks for your comments DC. Have you read any of the novels in The Glasgow Chronicles series, whcih are available on Amazon? Springburn features a lot in the books, especially The Mattress and The Wummin. Regards, Ian.
Ha! Ha! Well spotted Robert. Glad you enjoyed the video. Have you been on The Glasgow Chronicles Facebook page? Lots of pics of bygone Glasgow. Regards, Ian.
You're more than welcome, Lynda. Thanks for taking the time to feedback to me. I've made several slideshows of old photos of Glasgow for my Facebook page, to complement the series of books I've written, The Glasgow Chronicles, so that folk who read them can hopefully get a sense of what Glasgow was like to grow up in, back in the day! Kind regards, Ian
it makes me a wee bit sad Ian as I met my ex husband in 68 and married 72 divorced 76. I wasv15 going on 16 when we met in Buchanan st. but I'm so glad the films are all there. Thank you for uploading. x
So I started trying to look up the streets in this wonderful slide show and match them with current Google Street maps thereof, and wow!! It's like the Soviets actually did drop a bunch of bombs on the place and they rebuilt it from the ground up. I can understand ridding the city of some of the truly unlivable areas, but they've truly destroyed so many charming shopping and living districts. Gross overreach in my opinion.
I vaguely remeber stock well street was under a railway bridge and it was all shops selling China and crockery etc.am I right or was it somewhere else I'm thinking of?!
They pult it all doon and built things 1000 times worse than was there before - and they are still doing it - they must feel real proud of their achievements when they die
Did the Trolley Buses have the nickname "The Silent Death" as they were so quiet. A few people were knocked down by them as they didn't hear them coming and stepped onto the road without looking..
Scotty Stirling not in Springburn! Seriously I agree. The pic of the viaducts being constructed at Garscube Road is def. pre 1970 as they were built as part of the Kingston Bridge works (Carnoustie Street Bridge working title) and before the multi storey flats were built at Cowcaddens, completed in 1971 as I stood in them as a 5 year old at the opening tennants’ ballot.
I'm not sure which part of the video you mean, but if it is 0:41 there was a church and a (church?) hall there. It isn't Barony Church/Hall which are further south. Proceeding north up Castle Street past Provands Lordship, on the left after Mason Street (now renamed Cathedral Street), purely from an old map which you can see at: maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=18&lat=55.8631&lon=-4.2369&layers=168&right=BingHyb it says F Church and also Hall. Might it have been a Free Church? The NLS site is fun to play with - you can bring up maps of varying ages side by side with current GoogleMaps and see exactly where old roads & buildings were.
Time 2:53 shows a photo of Pinkston Road with the infamous Stinky Ocean in the background, I had my beloved Raleigh Blue bicycle stolen and reputedly dumped into this sea of lime green chemicals never to be seen again, does anyone have an informed knowledge of where this ocean originated from?....remember vividly kids playing in it!!....could not have been healthy for them.
David: I remember the stinky ocean but methinks it wasnt so much of an "ocean" but just a pond of pollution and we used to roll old empty oil barrels down into it or throw big pieces of wood or anything into the murky smelly "water" so it would emanate that stink so we could all scream Ewwwwww... We didnt have much, or anything really, to play with and it most certainly wasnt healthy but we survived... amazing huh ??...
the stinky ocean was the spoil from the ICI chemical works that ceased production in about 1960 the original factory was owned by the TENNANT family of guinness fame it was established in 1850s at the st rollox works and was the largest chemical works in the world at that time after it was demolished they built the sighthill multi story flats in the 1969s which have now been demolished.. the monkland canal ran by the side of the works and is now part of the M8 motorway
Hi John, You may not know that Hong Kong bought these trams and they are still in use today. This might be of interest to you th-cam.com/video/xCF3qYZkeEI/w-d-xo.html
I thank the LORD HE made me a Scot (clan MacLaren) every day! In my heart and blood always; the glorious St Andrew's Cross, bagpipes stir my soul, Brave SCOTS who always defend their ladies, the most beautiful the LORD ever made!
Thank you I did the right thing by waking away iwas never allowed to be in my family truly evil for me but I'm still here and all the lies told to me when really should have been given to the welfare and but somewhere else instead of a flat in the Southside and iwas shunned by nearly all of my family I didn't ask to be born and all the rest got new lives my fault iwas born disabled and I am not to blame who ever made the arrangements for me got it wrong
As an exiled Scot for over 55 years, this video brings back many memories of a simpler, and most likely a far less stressful, society than the divisive and troubled one we have inherited today. As a 16-year-old junior salesperson in Burtons in 1961 - first in Argyle Street, and then in Sauchiehall Street. I have so many positive and happy memories of a much simpler society - a society, sad to say, now gone forever.
Sorry to say you are so very wrong, it’s not the society that’s gone for ever, it’s your youth and it’s your youth you hunger for, when you had not a care or responsibility in the world. Glasgow now is a far better place than back then, it’s cleaner for a start, racism and sexism is gone, sectarianism remnants are still evident but nothing like what it was back then. The young people of the city are amazing, not interested if you are Protestant or Catholic and every shop, bar,restaurant, cinema you enter no longer stinks of stale cigarette smoke. It’s a brighter cleaner better city now. Lament the loss of your youth not the old dark smelly segregated Glasgow
@@Steampunksaly Bill , is it rose coloured glasses cloud your judgement , or APPEASEMENT like that of your namesake , John has his positive memories of a time and place you obviously detested . yet champion a society that forgives the darkest of crimes by those welcomed and shown hospitality because they may have suffered poverty and other hardship . . for fear of being labelled prejudiced , yet you readily condemned a time and place when the majority unlike your dismissive description had many a care in the world and suffered greatly for their responsibilities Glasgow certainly is much cleaner , and it's young are to be commended for their rejection of violence , so often experienced by their forebears . endured if not relished . Sectarianism and Racism are abhorrent to say the least , traits I'm happy to say never suffered or shown by a large extended family . RACE BAITERS are a whole other level of hate , just as I can't imagine hating another human because of their skin colour , I'm totally dismayed though with anyone who feels hatred towards their own skin colour . it really is scrapping the proverbial barrel , when your person of choice to put on a pedestal , is bereft of humanity and moral decency towards other men and women ,Unfortunately Racism is as prevalent as sexism misogyny homophobia in Glasgow and worldwide , though now predominantly used by those less likely to be accused of being capable of such . I'm glad for you that you see such positivity in the City my birthplace , though because you don't see or perhaps refuse to see , doesn't mean what others see isn't Truly there . In June 2020, following the murder of George Floyd in the USA, Yousaf gave a speech to the Scottish Parliament as part of a debate to show solidarity with anti-racism.[24] In the speech, Yousaf listed 15 positions of authority in Scotland held by white people, in order to illustrate that there were few non-white people in positions of power. Video clips of the speech were widely circulated online by conservative commentators, who argued that this was to be expected in a country where (according to the 2011 census) 96% of the population was white, and mocked Yousaf's style of delivery, in particular his emphasis of the word "white". As a result, Yousaf was the target of over 6,000 posts on social media
@@Steampunksaly its society that has changed for the worse
I was born in 1948 in the Gallowgate. The pictures and the music accompaniment are spot on, not sad but more nostalgic.
Right now, as of the 23rd October, 2020, in this mad, mad world, it has brought me a lot ok comfort. I am in Lagos, Nigeria right now and feel very homesick.
Marvellous video - as a young apprentice I walked the streets of this wonderful city - the people ,warm and friendly - don't let the images of renewal depress you - the people are Glasgow - not the bricks and mortar !
Thanks, Mr Todd. The colour photo of Hope Street at Sauchiehall Street, June 1961, took me back to my childhood. I would have been 10 years old in 1961. This is the world we have lost, when people had a real pride in themselves and their city, which was reflected even in the way people dressed.
Fantastic Video, I was born in 1959, Lived in Partick, I remember the Old Glasgow, We moved time Livingston in 1972, but still visited Glasgow every Weekend, I love Glasgow, Thanks for the Memories👍
I Actually had a lump in my throat while watching this. The music, memories of late family and places I’ve been to as a teenager. Great stuff. Thank you for a wonderful trip down memory lane!
Glad you enjoyed the video George. Have you checked out my FaceBook page The Glasgow Chronicles yet? The page has over 48,000 followers, with thousands of photos from Glasgow going back to the 1950s through to the 1970s? Also, there is a webpage of the same name, if you aren't on Facebook. Also, please check out my other videos here on TH-cam. Kind regards, Ian.
Ian Todd Will do Ian. Thanks again.
Me too...left in 1978 for Canada....A lot to to remember...but never forgotten
Watching this video has jogged ďeep parts of my memory.making me remember images and sounds which I hadn't even known I'd forgotten .... growing up in Glasgow from the late 1950s through the 1960s. A beautiful video.Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed the video Phillipe. Have you checked out my FaceBook page The Glasgow Chronicles yet? The page has over 48,000 followers, with thousands of photos from Glasgow going back to the 1950s through to the 1970s? Also, there is a webpage of the same name, if you aren't on Facebook. Also, please check out my other videos here on TH-cam. Kind regards, Ian.
Lovely old cars 🚗
Thanks for posting, takes me back. I'm really interested in the Glasgow Hurricane Low storm which brought death and destruction to Glasgow and surrounding area on January 14th 1968. I can vividly remember hundreds of buildings with green tarpollens covering the roofs.
I thought I may have seen some evidence of the storm in the photos as it was such a major event and many photos probably exist. Although I was only 10 at the time it was a night which will remain with me forever. On hearing music which was in the chart at the time brings it all back. Unforgettable.
Yes, I remember that night very clearly also.
@@AlexMoody I was 3 years old but remember my dad climbing a ladder to get up to fix some shingles that came off the roof.
@@AlexMoody I don't remember the storm that night, I must have been sleeping like a 3 year old, out for the count. 😅😂🤣
Very 👍nice 🎶musick so well 👌done. You can feel the essense of by gone times and moments of lives. So peacefull. Thank you.
Great collection of vivid coloured images..I also see one of my first place of employment, at Sellyns in Trongate..those were the days..thanks for posting.
What a wonderful collection of photographs bringing my past back to life . Wish it was then as we navigate the present crisis.
I grew up during these times in Govonhill before going to Australia in 72. like going back in time. Thanks Iain.
Did you see that rubbish oan the streets - its still there
@@williamf4544 Lol !!
il bet the place was beautiful in 72.
Down memory lane.This is the Glasgow I remember.
Loved the video.
The third pic with no location is the Boundary Bar terminus at Hawthorn Street, Springburn. The tram is going to Shawfield: replaced by the 18 bus to Shawfield, later changing to Polmadie and Burnside - all exotic unknown destinations when I was a child. Like this post if, like me, you often wondered what the destinations on your local buses were like?
Brilliant . . Just jumping back to the future . .
Very enjoyable even though I was just a child back then!
Wonderful trip down memory lane
I was brought up in Springburn from 1967 to 1990 - folks still live there. Great to see so many from the old Springburn including the pic of the Princes cinema in Gourley Street. Before tonight the only memory I have of the view was from the very early seventies when I was four or five years of age.
Thanks for your comments DC. Have you read any of the novels in The Glasgow Chronicles series, whcih are available on Amazon? Springburn features a lot in the books, especially The Mattress and The Wummin. Regards, Ian.
Wonderful, thank you. Now you have 667 subscribers, I didn't like the number you had so I had to do it!
Ha! Ha! Well spotted Robert. Glad you enjoyed the video. Have you been on The Glasgow Chronicles Facebook page? Lots of pics of bygone Glasgow. Regards, Ian.
Magic, we left Kingston in '66 for the Highlands. Our little mongerel dug must have thought he was on another planet, hehe :D (happy days)
Keep making the videos Ian I keep coming back to them
You're more than welcome, Lynda. Thanks for taking the time to feedback to me. I've made several slideshows of old photos of Glasgow for my Facebook page, to complement the series of books I've written, The Glasgow Chronicles, so that folk who read them can hopefully get a sense of what Glasgow was like to grow up in, back in the day! Kind regards, Ian
it makes me a wee bit sad Ian as I met my ex husband in 68 and married 72 divorced 76. I wasv15 going on 16 when we met in Buchanan st. but I'm so glad the films are all there. Thank you for uploading. x
ps I grew up at st George's X.
Truly lovely.
So I started trying to look up the streets in this wonderful slide show and match them with current Google Street maps thereof, and wow!! It's like the Soviets actually did drop a bunch of bombs on the place and they rebuilt it from the ground up. I can understand ridding the city of some of the truly unlivable areas, but they've truly destroyed so many charming shopping and living districts. Gross overreach in my opinion.
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What have they done to the old buildings in and around our city, they wouldnt have got away with it in France or Italy.
Great memories !!!
Good pics
Brilliant video thank you for posting this :)
Great stuff buddy. You should slow the speed down a wee bit as I think the viewers would appreciate more time looking at these images.
It's easy enough to pause it.
@@ZL54JK8 Every 3 seconds though? Stopping and starting the music etc ruins the flow
@@annother3350 Yes, a fair point if the "flow" is the thing. My own view is that it's the pictures here that really matter, and I don't mind pausing.
I vaguely remeber stock well street was under a railway bridge and it was all shops selling China and crockery etc.am I right or was it somewhere else I'm thinking of?!
Nice film of glasgow from 1960 to the 1970s. Ì don't remember much of the 1960s as i was a child then.
At 2.53 the infamous Stinky Ocean at Pinkston and the Red Road flats centre
I remember we ha plastic token to pay our fairs my father was a docker in govan he got them from the dock get time
As described in my first Glasgow novel, Parly Road, John. Kind regards, Ian.
Pollokshaws Road, not Pollockshaws...nice views of Govanhill, from my earliest childhood. Thanks
They pult it all doon and built things 1000 times worse than was there before - and they are still doing it - they must feel real proud of their achievements when they die
Did the Trolley Buses have the nickname "The Silent Death" as they were so quiet. A few people were knocked down by them as they didn't hear them coming and stepped onto the road without looking..
Please slow the show down a bit, I like to look at the details in the photos. Thanks, ex KNIGHTSWOOD.
umm the picture of kay street has got to be the wrong year, 20p in the Galbraiths window didn't decimalization begin in1972.
Coins appeared in 1971 before the official launch Scotty.
Decimal coins put into circulation 1968. "D day" 15 February 1971.
Scotty Stirling not in Springburn! Seriously I agree. The pic of the viaducts being constructed at Garscube Road is def. pre 1970 as they were built as part of the Kingston Bridge works (Carnoustie Street Bridge working title) and before the multi storey flats were built at Cowcaddens, completed in 1971 as I stood in them as a 5 year old at the opening tennants’ ballot.
Great film... READ THE REAL GORBALS STORY NEXT BRILLIANT BOOK 👍
I am stuck what is that across the road from the hospital sand stone building? looks like a bell tower
I'm not sure which part of the video you mean, but if it is 0:41 there was a church and a (church?) hall there. It isn't Barony Church/Hall which are further south.
Proceeding north up Castle Street past Provands Lordship, on the left after Mason Street (now renamed Cathedral Street), purely from an old map which you can see at:
maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=18&lat=55.8631&lon=-4.2369&layers=168&right=BingHyb
it says F Church and also Hall. Might it have been a Free Church?
The NLS site is fun to play with - you can bring up maps of varying ages side by side with current GoogleMaps and see exactly where old roads & buildings were.
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Your jumping from photo to photo way to fast, my brain can't absorb the visuals on display
NITRO PLASTIQUE adjust the playback speed in settings
Time 2:53 shows a photo of Pinkston Road with the infamous Stinky Ocean in the background, I had my beloved Raleigh Blue bicycle stolen and reputedly dumped into this sea of lime green chemicals never to be seen again, does anyone have an informed knowledge of where this ocean originated from?....remember vividly kids playing in it!!....could not have been healthy for them.
David: I remember the stinky ocean but methinks it wasnt so much of an "ocean" but just a pond of pollution and we used to roll old empty oil barrels down into it or throw big pieces of wood or anything into the murky smelly "water" so it would emanate that stink so we could all scream Ewwwwww...
We didnt have much, or anything really, to play with and it most certainly wasnt healthy but we survived... amazing huh ??...
the stinky ocean was the spoil from the ICI chemical works that ceased production in about 1960 the original factory was owned by the TENNANT family of guinness fame it was established in 1850s at the st rollox works and was the largest chemical works in the world at that time after it was demolished they built the sighthill multi story flats in the 1969s which have now been demolished.. the monkland canal ran by the side of the works and is now part of the M8 motorway
Why oh why did they get rid of the trams now nearly every city wants to install the tram system again to make them look modern and forward thinking
Hi John,
You may not know that Hong Kong bought these trams and they are still in use today. This might be of interest to you th-cam.com/video/xCF3qYZkeEI/w-d-xo.html
There's no hustle and bustle these days
What’s interesting watching this not a pot hole in sight smooth road surfaces a thing of the past now folks sadly …
I thank the LORD HE made me a Scot (clan MacLaren) every day! In my heart and blood always; the glorious St Andrew's Cross, bagpipes stir my soul, Brave SCOTS who always defend their ladies, the most beautiful the LORD ever made!
To many brown envelopes in those days .
Is Pollockshaws anywhere near Pollokshaws?
Same name same place
Alex Zurlon It’s the same area, just a misspelling. Some people put a ‘c’ in Pollok accidentally
Thank you I did the right thing by waking away iwas never allowed to be in my family truly evil for me but I'm still here and all the lies told to me when really should have been given to the welfare and but somewhere else instead of a flat in the Southside and iwas shunned by nearly all of my family I didn't ask to be born and all the rest got new lives my fault iwas born disabled and I am not to blame who ever made the arrangements for me got it wrong
Just on the cusp of the city becoming ugly well done developers and the council.
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