The city of Taggart; Astonishing Glasgow ep59
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- It is just over 40 years since Chief inspector Taggart hit our TV screens and I wondered how much of Astonishing Glasgow had changed. Would he recognise his city now?
Follow me for a cycle around Glasgow while I visit as many Taggart filming locations as possible over two days and I take a walk in his footsteps.
Along the way I will be sharing some history and places of this great city.
This is an extra long episode of Astonishing Glasgow and I really hope it wont be demonetized for using clips from the TV show.
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Dave.
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Back in the 1980"s
I worked with the Hydro Electric board in Balfron,
I regularly was in attendance on location with the Taggart Location crew,
Loved it as I got to meet the man himself he was a total Gent with a dry sense of humour
Mark lived in Queens Drive, there’s also painting of him up on the wall in the Queens Park Cafe.
Enjoyed that even though I never watched it, my Dad was from Partick, he left for ww2 and was prisoner in Poland for four years, when he came back his parents had moved to Durham.he took me there to see it and said it had never changed apart from no trams, I think he lived church St.
I have not been to Glasgow for quite a while now, I have retired to Spain. I was born in (1960)and raised in Springburn ( Petershill). I left Springburn in 1981. it used to be a fantastic place and good memories as a boy. It's so depressing looking at how much they have destroyed the place. The Cemetery also looks to have deteriorated, Anyway, there has been some good work done around the city with the new buildings. Good video mate, bye from sunny Spain.😊
Born in Glasgow and many childhood memories of 1960s-1983 Glasgow. Thank you for reigniting them!
Top marks. Maybe your best yet? I appreciate how much work and research went into this one.
I'm guessing I'm like most Glaswegians who watch Taggart that most of the time I'm watching the background to figure out where each scene is filmed. Some effort finding these locations! Well done!
Enjoyed watching. As a Glaswegian, through and through Taggart holds a special place for most of us Glaswegian folk.
Hi Dave, it's got to be dressing goon,, great tour of ma home toon.
Love your work....my father in-law directed lots of Taggart, Haldane Duncan, he was a director for STV..great to see...keep up the good work
Loved this video! Loved Taggart as well. I used to work in Byres Road, in the 80’s. I remember one day they were filming just outside our shop. Mark McManus was sitting in front of the cop car, which then sped down to the subway, he gave us a wave in his typical dour way, classic Taggart😂
Lovely seeing Gerard Kelly in that scene, I knew him before he became an actor, his dad had a chip shop in Shettleston, where I grew up. I was in touch with Gerard before he died, and he told me that he had been in London for an audition, and his dad warned him not to be late back as he had to work the evening shift in the chip shop. Great memories, thank you.
aye Sandra, the wee chippy has long gone, I mind he used to serve in it, god i'm getting auld ! lol
I’ve spent the last 6 years working with Vince at Dobbies Garden Centre. He was such a lovely, genuine soul and I’ll miss him so much. I still remember walking into a shift and seeing him and thinking to myself… that guy looks just like Vincent Friell….little did I know I’d become a colleague and friends with the Wolfman. Rest in peace Vinnie 😢xxxxx
My dad used to drink with Mark McManus and I went to school with Alex Norton, so that concludes my Taggart history. I really enjoy your trips around Glasgow, it brings back many memories.
Mark was a genuine bloke. Had the pleasure of his company many times in the Queen's Park Cafe & Victoria Bar away back in the day. Sadly missed.
They should bring it back - The lovely Blyth Duff is sitting waiting on her close up and big come back
Amazing! I used to live in Maryhill 1999 to 2002. Now I live in Montreal lol.
One Maryhill connection from the Glasgow Harbour/Meadowside Granary is that this was the location of the last Partick Thistle ground in Partick before moving to Firhill.
Thanks Dave! That was pure dead brilliant!!
My mum lives up in Kelvindale and I often travel along Balcarres ave to get to the back entrance of the Botanic gardens.
So many familiar spots. 😎
Nice piece about Vincent Friel in there. May he rest in peace.
Brilliant video, fully enjoyed it. Small note, Partick Police station was in use until about 1989 and certainly a cop shop when Taggart was shown in 1983.
You missed the iconic Gardner St Hill in Partick - a location which appears in the opening credits of several series. My late mother-in-law owned the ground floor corner flat on Caird Drive, and her living room window (overlooking Gardner Street) was seen in it (briefly) every episode.
Housecoat aw day 😂 👍...Great video 👏
Dressing gown in my humble opinion, you started off in my wife’s favourite Glasgow place, nice post and nostalgia
I worked for STV from 1984 to 2000 and remember Taggart in production. For Knife Edge (S1 Ep 4) we travelled out to a waste recycling plant at Queenslie to set up some TV grade monitors both of which immediately broke down. This is where the body parts are spotted on the conveyor belt.The episode also featured a very young Iain Glen as the drummer in the band. I have some photos of the nightclub interiors in Studio A.
A very BIG thank you to the Resident Historian. Maryhill Road is where my granny lived before leaving for America. It means a great deal to me to see this. Hats off to you Sir.
Well done Sir, and the 30 minutes went by like a breeze. Great content.
Dressing goon. I remember seeing an old mark McManus wandering about Vicky rd with his boder collie,late 80s,he did drink in QPcafe.I think he lived opposite the park,bandstand side.(wyndford. Not windford bro.sorry to be pedantic. I hope this doesn't wynd you up 😉) I lived happily in Harland cottages for a couple years.the track goes all the way to balloch,a superb summer cycle. Do it,you'll love it. Another great episode Davie 👍 (nice of you to dedicate it to friell,a bit of legend . I couldn't place where in knew him from in trainspotting)
Very grateful to Colin McCredie for featuring this on X. So much Maryhill where we love living and wondered if my first episode of Taggart was Series 1 and set in the Gorbals- so love to see there back then! Well done btw it’s brilliantly made! 👏👏👏
I'm glad I found this. I've lived in Canada for many years so it was on a visit home that I first saw Taggart. So my Christmas present that year was the Taggart series. Our Westie is called Mungo and our Scottie is of course called Taggart and he couldn't have been named better. He has the exact nature, dour and independent, as the chief inspector. What a great web site to look back on how Glasgow used to look.
Excellent stuff! Great work matching up all those locations, adding in history of people and places - fascinating. And it’s ‘goonie’ 😊
I visited the Wyndford Eatate and Maryhill back in August 2019 during my 40th during my stay in Glasgow!
An amazing amount of research has gone into this episode. Well done.
I remember walking over the swing bridge in the first clip while they were filming a scene for a later episode. The crew weren't happy that i wouldn't go round the long way as i would have been late for work.
RIP Vincent Friell, I hadn't heard that. Might need another wee watch of Restless Natives, I only watch it about three times a year 😅
Right across the road from the 'real' Maryhill Police Station you have another famous filming location, the cafe from Still Game 😅
Great Glasgow vid...read next The Real Gorbals story amazon 😅
Taggart and Astonishing Glasgow... that's like, double Glasgow! Great vid yet again
Funny you said right at the end we deserve a hot bath after that - that’s exactly where I am right now watching it on my iPad! An absolutely excellent episode, I think you worried too much about it being half an hour long - it was perfect! Looking forward to your next one 👍
From memory, when Taggart started, people only watched it to see which parts of Glasgow they had been filmed in.
Dressing goon or goonie. I really enjoyed that video. When I was a student living in a bedsit in Corunna St, the Taggart team fished a body out of our communal bin area😂. They also filmed one of the stories at Gean House, which was an hotel in my home town (Alloa). Would have been in winter 91/92. I mind the excitement at school when 'Mike Jardine' was spotted buying a sandwich in Woolies😂. I think Hannah Gordon was the main suspect. I also used to work with a former actress who played a Taggart villain, owning a dodgy IVF clinic😅.
Crazy how much Scotland has changed.
Great stuff , really enjoyed it. Thank god for YT, these days most history shows on tv are presented by ego driven celebs or ex tory MP's.
19.20: Is that Harvey Keitel? Fantastic episode, really enjoyed that.
It is indeed. He was in Glasgow in 1980 making the film Death watch. You can see the project i made about that here; rewoundandfound.com/death-watch/
You forgot to mention Vincent Friell's appearance in Still Game.
R.I.P. Wolfman
This was my absolute favourite programme when i was wee. Even though i was far too young to be watching it almost the whole time it was on lol.
Fantastic video Dave. RIP Vincent. Is there a prize for being the 1K like ? Looking forward to more Taggart locations.😍
Great video. I've cycled and walked along the canal umpteen times, but had no idea about the Maryhill motorway.
Best one yet and if the STV sue you, we will crowd-fund to sue them back for (a) cancelling Taggart and (b) not telling Alex Norton.
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aye glasgow has changed a helluva lot in the last 40 years big yin. gimme the auld one back anytime.
me tae, cannae recognise the place noo, us auld Glaswegians feel like we've been drapped into a time portal
Oh man. That was great!!!! ❤ once met Glen Chandler when he was researching episode “Angel Eyes”. Nice man. Thanks for this!
Sadly Vincent Friell passed away 3 days ago 😥RIP Vinnie 🙏
Dressing gown. George Parsonage visited my class at school to do a talk about his work. Got the first 3 seasons of Taggart on DVD not had a chance to watch them yet lol
Those steps in the Clyde also once featured in an episode of Rab C Nesbitt too. He fished Russell Hunter out the Clyde at those steps.
Excellent video, makes me want to revisit Glasgow.
I'm gonnae throw a spanner in the works m8... It's a bathrobe... I used to have Police cordon tape around my bedroom as a border, got it from a Taggart set on Meadowpark St in Dennistoun.
Oh god, what have I started? 😅
Excellent! I didn't know about that bike network. I need to get back to Scotland in the summer and check that all out.
So gutted to hear about the passing of Vincent Friell. I was a fan from the first Taggart. R.I.P.😢
Very well researched video again. I enjoyed it very much. Thanks again for all your efforts.
Class video mate. I still watch taggart to this day. I grew up in maryhill, played on those canal banks went to school at what’s now a fire station, hopefully maryhill primary is still up there 🤞🤞
Love you content mate loads of stuff I recognise I'm from deepest darkest Lanarkshire but worked in Glasgow for more than 40 years
Excellent video , Glasgow looks like a beautiful place to visit 👍
Only stumbled upon your channel via The Algorithm...great work! I'm always fascinated how British series like Taggart, The Sweeney and Minder used real location shooting and much still exists.
Heartbreaking that so many nightclubs have closed. Really upsets me.
Thanks
Love these kind of ‘now and then’ videos, always having had a fascination for visiting places where stuff has happened in the past. When i was on holiday down in Devon years ago i sought out the locations of clues from an episode of Treasure Hunt 😂 (except the submarine - that would have been difficult 😉).
The fascination with how places have changed is what made me start my Astonishing Glasgow videos. You might like my other website www.rewoundandfound.com
Impressive effort matching these scenes up. Thanks. :-)
spectacular research and production. Great job
We just stumbled across your channel and really enjoyed this episode as Taggart fans. Time to explore more of your videos.
great video mate ! they really should look into bringing this back, just look at how popular line of duty was !
Dressing gown! I was almost in a Taggert episode when they filmed at the Shawbridge Arcade around 2001/2002. I was at the window
Brilliant...as usual, made me laugh 👍
Dressing gown for sure, this is also an argument in my house. Thanks for a wonderful video
My nana - who was from Sighthill, where a number of the scenes were filmed - once spotted Taggart hunkered down outside the mortuary by the Saltmarket with a half bottle in his hand.
"Aw, Taggart", she said. "You look just like ye dae oan the telly!"
"Aye", he called back. "And jist as f***ing ugly!"
She was delighted.
great video thank you 👍
Wonderful video thank you so much
Fabulous work and research Dave! A real trip down memory lane on many levels.
This is brilliant, but now I'm on a taggart worm hole on the stv app, trying to guess the locations!
"We don't do ligatures in Maryhill!"
Brilliant 🎉
This is a great concept for videos and really well put together, I enjoyed watching this one 😄 happily subscribed 👍
What a tour, I still mind going to see Restless Natives like it was just a few months ago, lost count how many times I've seen the film, for some strange reason when I hear or see the film name I always think of Anderson Bus Station, always stood in in it with my mum waiting on our bus.
I drove past the granary for years on the Clydeside Expressway, usually on my way to Faifley Housing Association or Bellsmyre, pretty certain it was Reigart that done all the demolition BUT my old memory is getting a tad rusty now.
Panama Jax - WOW! Been in there a few times back in the 80's, hearing you talk about it was a real curveball, did not see that coming one bit, where did the time go ?
Massive Thanks for such an amazing tour, will also pass on to a few others who will also enjoy.
Cheers!
I'm really glad the video brought back good memories. If Restless natives brings back memories of standing in Anderson bus station you might not realise yo probably walked past the joke shop on the way to and from the bus garage. I tracked down the Restless natives locations a few years ago for my other site ;rewoundandfound.com/restless-natives/ When I posted them on a Facebook page, somebody challenged my location of the joke shop and swore it was actually in Edinburgh. Vincent Friell actually joined in that conversation and in my defence he confirmed it was Glasgow and said they brought a Lothian bus from Edinburgh to drive by the window for effect.
@@AstonishingGlasgow I know just about ever line in that Film, even bought it for a few people that had never heard of it, defo the most watched Video I've ever watched.
I bought an English mate Restless Natives and the film ''Orphans'' back in Christmas 2022
Got the same English mate right into Limmy too, then Burnistoun, he always says Denim Jaisket now PMSL 🤣
Thanks again!
Enjoyed the video as always. Cheers 👍🏻
Another brilliant video and as always, really appreciate all your efforts to bring all this to your audience. It’s brilliant for me being almost as young as you are and love these nostalgic tours around our city. Love your work 👍🏼❤️😎
series 1 ep4 Alex Norton's cottage is still owned by the owner from that episode! today.
Brilliant mate thanks for putting in all that effort that was a great watch 👍
Excellent work Dave, love watching your videos. Great info on Glasgow.
I’d love to see them bring back taggart in some form.
Really enjoyed that mate... But I feel so old now lol.
You and me both!
Amazing vlog 🙏🏻
Cheers for doing this I really enjoyed the nostalgia trip
well spotted, you have done well here, good video
This is great work. Best video I've seen on youtube this year.
Great watch👍🙌
It’s The Wyndford not The Windford as you are pronouncing it.Great Video.
Thanks!❤
Amazing work. Well done.
I'm sure that is a world first for you - no one has ever before uttered the phrase "Don't you wish you were in Springburn?"
Brilliant video realy enjoyed this 😊
Brilliant film.
Im headed back home in June from Canada after 40 years n bringing my girlfriend,Im super excited to show her about❤ maybe we will hire bicycles in Glasgow
Wow, after 40 years you will be doing a live version of this video and seeing the changes for yourself. If you do fancy hiring bikes and cycling in the city you should check out the OVO bikes. Handy for short term hire (If you dont mind using a bike with the atomic weight of jupiter) as they are on many street corners.
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Great content, thanks for these last two videos - brilliant 👏
When you were in Springburn there had been another scene filmed there apart from Alex Norton working in the butchers. Not sure which episode but it was one of the first and it's where there were human remains found under floor boards. This was in 24 Springvale Terrace. I became the postman there in the late 80's and often wondered if the residents knew of that episode.
Thanks for sharing this. In series 1 episode 2 the opening scene shows builders finding a bag of bones under a floor of a sandstone villa on a hill. Wonder if it was the one you mention?
@@AstonishingGlasgow That's the one. It was Springvale Terrace, the camera looks down at one point and you can see a pub called the Haven that is no longer there. It sat at the top of what is known locally as the library stairs ( the library building survives but it moved in beside the gym you filmed from) You can see the railway station at one point I'm sure
hello Dave I wondered if you had considered doing an episode on Gillespie, Kidd and Coia? they designed quite a few interesting buildings around glasgow and after mackintosh and greek thomson are probably the most famous architects from the city, it would be a good bike tour as well
Its been on my list for a while. I went to Kings park secondary school which they designed so growing up I was aware of them and their style. Eventually I will get through this list.
@@AstonishingGlasgow well i will look forward to it!
That housecoat is a Hugh Hefner smoking jacket
Dressing gown! (I’m from Ayr)