Loved seeing the yard workers, looked as though they were coming and going from Scott’s canteen, I worked in Scott’s training centre in 1981, so I could’ve been walking up that road, as I went to Scott’s canteen everyday!.
I served my time at Kincaids 75-79, remember getting 2 course meal and 1/2 pint milk for 23p in Scotts canteen,and going back at night if out on the p""", as they were open all night, left Scotland 79, went back several years ago, the sight broke my heart, where did we go wrong letting all the jobs and expertise disappear to other countries
Brilliant to see it again how I remember it as a wean. Scott's and Kincaid's is about the biggest shock value. Loved seeing the Reliant Robins and double deckers driving around Greenock again. Thanks for this.
great video, I left Greenock in the summer of 81 aged 22 and never got back for 7 years and totally different from this video great to see it as I remembered thanks for the memory Brian
Enjoyed that. Great piece of social history with the big sheds and cranes of Kincaids and Scotts and the crowds of men on the streets and coming out of the Knowe Road canteen Well done.
This is how I remember Port Glasgow to Greenock! The Esso Petrol station at 1:00. Fueled there many times. The Texaco Petrol station at 4:05 was where US service members could fuel using rations cards. There was a few bars around Scott's and Kinkaid's...can't recall the names any longer. Oh, yes...the Rotunda bar...even the Westburn or Rob Roy. I have had a pint in all. Greenock had a better look and more wealth in these days.
the wind in winter would funnel between scots and kincaids and it was brutal riding through on a motorbike ,blown about like an old crisp poke , happy days
Brilliant video, thanks for posting. I left Greenock not too many years after this was made, so much of it was exactly as I remembered. Not the same place now. I lost count of how many accidents I went to on the "Para Handy Chicane" outside Scotts - before they put a roundabout in, running the gauntlet of "yerd" workers erupting from the big gate, Greenock Fire Station (many a night spent there). So many memories of a more innocent time ( not necessarily better)
I went to Greenock a couple of years after this was filmed. It was a great place to be in the 80s. I still miss it and consider it my hometown although I live in ireland now. That drive has changed so much.
From Pottery Street onwards ye realise how much Greenock has lost ,a real eye opener. Id completely forgot that big Scotts yard where McDs is now. From the Port ,would love to see a video going the other way
Ma Granda worked in these yards for years, was a boiler-maker (plural plaques killed him) and Shop Steward etc', used to drink in the pub near where he was reared: "The Carnock Bar" on the corner of Dellingburn Street, Joe Roddy was his name, lived in Cardross Crescent with ma Gran. Loads of others used tae lowp the walls for a drink in The Oban, Sorenson's or Fred Flynn's (Crescent Bar). Video brings back auld memories, cheers for posting.
Rankins boy. I've no been back since ma nana died. Ma nana's you always had somewhere to stay. I had in the 80s like most of the people in my family. So if the town wasn't right it in the 80s during Maggie thatcher. Definitely once you couldn't just go catch the train on a Fri and stay till Sunday. Miss Greenock felt safe and I know people won't understand but when I was growing up someone always had an eye out for you. Mind I grew up as the only proddy in Gabriel st.
This is great, I lived in Kilmacolm 1979 to 1983 and we often visited Greenock! I vaguely remember some of these roads...if you have any videos from Kilmacolm as well from that period, please can you let me know? Many thanks!
hi Brian, i love this video. i want old Greenock back! do you happen to have a video driving the other way at all? through Port Glasgow, the way it was before it was ruined by roundabouts? Cheers!
my father grew up on ardgowan st in port glasgow in the 40"s and then worked for harland wolfe shipbuilders before coming to america in 1950 i looked on google earth and all there is is new houses on ardgowan are all the tenement buildings gone now?
Love how all of this is gone because of one wee cow in parliament who lost the Clyde it's main produce. Cheers Maggie doll. Just wondering where you found this vid because its really good.
classic video just shows ye what wee have left aftr maggie thatcher killed the ship buidling off :( torries are trying to kill of greenock and scotland
I’ll probably get bashed in the comments for this but the current town is a lot nicer than this. I always see people complaining about the town centre but it’s really just a big chunk of west blackhall street, west Stewart street, and the oak mall that brings it down. The end of west blackhall street, the waterfront area, and Cathcart street are beautiful areas with thriving businesses. Yes, Greenock might’ve been wealthier back then but it was definitely more of an eye sore and I know which one I prefer
It's amazing; the toon looks totally dated, but at the same time everything looks new-ish, and shiny. The town centre basically looks the same today, except it is now a worn and tired sh*tehole.
Not from there but a massive change, human life was normal then, as every where else, gone to scag now, says it all, would not let my dog shit here it's that bad
Loved seeing the yard workers, looked as though they were coming and going from Scott’s canteen, I worked in Scott’s training centre in 1981, so I could’ve been walking up that road, as I went to Scott’s canteen everyday!.
I served my time at Kincaids 75-79, remember getting 2 course meal and 1/2 pint milk for 23p in Scotts canteen,and going back at night if out on the p""", as they were open all night, left Scotland 79, went back several years ago, the sight broke my heart, where did we go wrong letting all the jobs and expertise disappear to other countries
So many memories in 8 short minutes. Thanks for this.
I'm 19 years old from the Port and it's nuts to see how much it's changed.
Same from Greenock and it looked mental back in the day. Lot less traffic lights unlike now lol
Brilliant to see it again how I remember it as a wean. Scott's and Kincaid's is about the biggest shock value. Loved seeing the Reliant Robins and double deckers driving around Greenock again. Thanks for this.
Wow, I had forgotten just how much Greenock and The Port had changed.
a certain woman prime minister wrecked greenock and scotland and we still have not recovered
thanks for posting this, I've lived here all my life but I remember this like it was yesterday. the good old days
great video, I left Greenock in the summer of 81 aged 22 and never got back for 7 years and totally different from this video great to see it as I remembered thanks for the memory Brian
Enjoyed that. Great piece of social history with the big sheds and cranes of Kincaids and Scotts and the crowds of men on the streets and coming out of the Knowe Road canteen
Well done.
Fantastic footage ... lots of memories. Thanks for uploading. x
This is how I remember Port Glasgow to Greenock! The Esso Petrol station at 1:00. Fueled there many times. The Texaco Petrol station at 4:05 was where US service members could fuel using rations cards. There was a few bars around Scott's and Kinkaid's...can't recall the names any longer. Oh, yes...the Rotunda bar...even the Westburn or Rob Roy. I have had a pint in all. Greenock had a better look and more wealth in these days.
brilliant. love watching these old videos of my home town. more please :-)
the wind in winter would funnel between scots and kincaids and it was brutal riding through on a motorbike ,blown about like an old crisp poke , happy days
Brilliant video, thanks for posting. I left Greenock not too many years after this was made, so much of it was exactly as I remembered. Not the same place now.
I lost count of how many accidents I went to on the "Para Handy Chicane" outside Scotts - before they put a roundabout in, running the gauntlet of "yerd" workers erupting from the big gate, Greenock Fire Station (many a night spent there). So many memories of a more innocent time ( not necessarily better)
I went to Greenock a couple of years after this was filmed. It was a great place to be in the 80s. I still miss it and consider it my hometown although I live in ireland now.
That drive has changed so much.
Love to see these old videos ...
Hardly a car on the road unlike today ... great video ...
this is brill brian.thanks for posting
that took me back wow that much work for a wee toon like greenock
Excellent vid mate. Cheers!
That Thatcher. Tore the heart oot ae this community. A lot ae good boys lost they Joabs
oarite maite caolm doain pail
From Pottery Street onwards ye realise how much Greenock has lost ,a real eye opener. Id completely forgot that big Scotts yard where McDs is now.
From the Port ,would love to see a video going the other way
Ma Granda worked in these yards for years, was a boiler-maker (plural plaques killed him) and Shop Steward etc', used to drink in the pub near where he was reared: "The Carnock Bar" on the corner of Dellingburn Street, Joe Roddy was his name, lived in Cardross Crescent with ma Gran.
Loads of others used tae lowp the walls for a drink in The Oban, Sorenson's or Fred Flynn's (Crescent Bar).
Video brings back auld memories, cheers for posting.
Only lived here a couple of years and it is bizarre to see the change in this
3.40. A Vauxhall Viva waiting at the lights to turn right,Memories of My first car...!
amazing footage....
It was all about keeping Scotland down. That's was Thatcher.Great Shipyards they were.
sad but good to see the toon when it still was a shipbuilding toon,and the gibbys still there
brilliant i was 7 then n just moved up i port but can remember a lot of the places n cars and not a junkie in sight lol
Great upload mate. From eh Gibby myself
Was 7. Then
Can rem these places
Great vid
Rankins boy. I've no been back since ma nana died. Ma nana's you always had somewhere to stay. I had in the 80s like most of the people in my family. So if the town wasn't right it in the 80s during Maggie thatcher. Definitely once you couldn't just go catch the train on a Fri and stay till Sunday. Miss Greenock felt safe and I know people won't understand but when I was growing up someone always had an eye out for you. Mind I grew up as the only proddy in Gabriel st.
grew up on lomond road,left 83
great video brian, les needed to get his wipers fixed.
Was from gibby 1970 parents also stayed angus road and branchton road
This is great, I lived in Kilmacolm 1979 to 1983 and we often visited Greenock! I vaguely remember some of these roads...if you have any videos from Kilmacolm as well from that period, please can you let me know? Many thanks!
My cousin lived in Kilmacolm around 1975
hi Brian, i love this video. i want old Greenock back! do you happen to have a video driving the other way at all? through Port Glasgow, the way it was before it was ruined by roundabouts?
Cheers!
my father grew up on ardgowan st in port glasgow in the 40"s and then worked for harland wolfe shipbuilders before coming to america in 1950 i looked on google earth and all there is is new houses on ardgowan are all the tenement buildings gone now?
Love how all of this is gone because of one wee cow in parliament who lost the Clyde it's main produce. Cheers Maggie doll. Just wondering where you found this vid because its really good.
MY GRANDFATHER ON MY MOM SIDE WORKES AT THE SHIPYARD COOL I HAVE FAMILY THERE THANKYOU COOL
classic video just shows ye what wee have left aftr maggie thatcher killed the ship buidling off :( torries are trying to kill of greenock and scotland
@mabawzaingreenock
My pleasure
yer windae wiper needs sorting
I’ll probably get bashed in the comments for this but the current town is a lot nicer than this. I always see people complaining about the town centre but it’s really just a big chunk of west blackhall street, west Stewart street, and the oak mall that brings it down. The end of west blackhall street, the waterfront area, and Cathcart street are beautiful areas with thriving businesses. Yes, Greenock might’ve been wealthier back then but it was definitely more of an eye sore and I know which one I prefer
i left school in 81 to no jobs , was'nt long till all the guys working in the yards where on the dole too. bit of a shit time for our area
would have been better if you drove past the scott lithgow crane
no Ginger the horse back then
It's amazing; the toon looks totally dated, but at the same time everything looks new-ish, and shiny. The town centre basically looks the same today, except it is now a worn and tired sh*tehole.
Less cars.
Not from there but a massive change, human life was normal then, as every where else, gone to scag now, says it all, would not let my dog shit here it's that bad
@wuzz77 u mean frankie!!!!! know your dad well,good guy.
Is that Frankie King ?
Good, with exception of the stupid windshield wipers and moving them didn't help.
aha look at yae reford
Cant be greenock its no raining