I was 10 years old in 78. I remember the poverty and depravation in Glasgow but still fond memories. The people of Glasgow are the salt of the earth. Always a laugh. Proud Glaswegian here ❤️
Well said,poor or not,people looked after one another.Whatever the conditions the children were safe,there was always someone with an eye for strangers in the street ,etc.Sorry,I could go on but thanks for the video.That City moulded everyone of us,whether we admit it or not..Cheers
You should be lauded for taking these pics and putting them on here. They're all stunning snaps of Glasgow. I grew up in Govan in the 60's/early 70's and I can relate to these images no problem. I can remember the workies demolishing the midgiebins round the back of our Uist st which bordered the back of Elderpark st, and watching as they chased the scurrying rats with their shovels to flatten them. Then the wee guy in uniform with the stepladder lighting the close mantles at the entrance. Even the people that stayed in the bottom flats in our close had to use outside lavvies. Imean this wasn't wartime...we're talking 67-69 here. Great pics.
Some of the comments below are a bit harsh , you must remember this is the 70’s tough times all over the UK .The economic impact of the Second World War was still being felt, harsh economic conditions for everyone .Multiple deep recessions .The Glasgow people have always been warm-hearted and generous that’s never changed no matter what , the city has some of the finest Victorian architecture in the uk and wonderful green open spaces . I left Glasgow to seek my fortune down south like a lot of people of my generation born in the 50,s , never found the fortune but did carve out a decent life nonetheless less.I miss Glasgow , don’t miss the weather.
I was 14 to 18 when these photos were taken, and several hundred miles away. I used to see kids like these around the estates I grew up near, so full of dreams that nobody cared to let them achieve.
Absolutely brilliant photo journalism capturing the demise of communities and the vision of modernity which was believed to solve poverty. The images are so powerful and sad but seeing the smiles on the kids faces also gives a feeling of hope for the future.
Great old photos of Glasgow, I remember these times as I was born in 1964. Came from Maryhill to The Drum in 1974. I think the guy with the guitar and tartan suit was the Roller Man in these photos, he used to busk in the toon outside Frasers in Buchanan Street, does anyone remember him? Great times in Glasgow as have great memories of these days.
I was brought up in 1960's England but I used to love going to stay with my granny in Blackhill. I used to dread my mum taking me back home because I was always happier with my Glasow family. And its still the same for me today, most of my family are gone but I still spend as much time as I can in the place I've always considered my real home.
I lived in Glasgow during this time and whilst there were areas that were dreadfully deprived there were also areas that were beautiful. The photos were super but needed some balance
Thanks for sharing, that was incredible. I'd give everything I owned to be able to step back in time.....pure dead brilliant, you've made my day...cheers x
Thanks for these photos. My parents moved out of the Gorbals to East Kilbride when I was 3 in 1967. It was a new Town then and full of green space. It was the right move.
My mum's home town glory Glasgow sadly she has past but would always show her videos she loved watching them love ya mum XX love u Louise and love you dad gbnf xxx
Yes parts of Glasgow were pretty grim then and it took the Great Storm of January 1968 to show just how bad some of the tenements were when 29 paid with their lives. It was a wake up call which generally changed Glasgow for the better. Despite the conditions it was and still is a city with a great spirit and warm people many of whom had little but would give you the shirt off their backs.
I love Glasgow and its people., haven't been there since this covid thing started. Hopefully, please God, we can get back to normal and get our greatly missed weekends away back again .
Thanks Hugh. As a teenager spent lots of time in Glasgow in the 70's. Your pictures sum it up in that period. Good and bad but always exciting and interesting with a hint of danger!!
I have never been to Glasgow. I mean, I never stayed in Glasgow... but we drove through the city on our way to the West Coast of the Highlands. It was in 73. The image I kept is that of an avenue bordered with Victorian buildings with walled up windows, as gray as the gray sky, of a drunkard crossing the gray street almost empty of cars, empty of walkers, of swirling newspapers. Quite shocking when I was promised wide open spaces, lochs, gorgeous lights and colours, wild life and legendary castle ruins. This picture recently came back to my mind. I wanted to check if it was somewhat faithful to the reality of the time or if it was just a fantasy. At the sight of these beautiful B&W photographs, I can say today that despite my great age, my memory is not failing me.
Your memory of Glasgow at that time is spot on, yes we have beautiful open spaces and some of the best architecture but the poverty and deprivation at that time was on a massive scale, took them long enough to do something about it but its getting there much the same as most major industrial cities.
Absolutely brilliant photos, brings back so many memories. I was aged 9-13 in those years, and stayed up the red road flats 1966- 77. only left because of a fire that happened in our block. This has brought back a lot of good memories. Thank you.
The fire was in 10 red road court and after it they condemned the top 10 floors. I remember as a kid running along the roofs of the garages and jumping onto the ledge at the bottom of the flats.
These are fascinating. A huge BRAVO for sharing this and doubtless doing many others. I lived and worked in Glasgow from mid 1972 to late 1973, sent up from London after a year as a Management Trainee to manage a distribution depot with 40 blokes in Broomloan Rd, Carlisle, Inverness and Aberdeen. I was told to play up on the fact that I came from the North East (not London!), to avoid talking about Religion and watch talking about Footie. Lived in the West End using the Underground to get round - just loved that it swayed so much and the smell... never forgotten - just watching the films of the Underground brings it back straight away. I don't think I realised at the time how derilict some parts of Glasgow was, though some of our drivers lived nearby and we would have to go to see them from time to time in the Tenements and also out to the East End. We used to deliver payrolls to the shipyards, mainly building Oil drilling platforms at the time which was fascinating... did I miss the Big Yin I wonder? Had the opportunity to visit many businesses in and around Glasgow as part of getting new work. Always after there would be a drink but I could never do the Heavy and a Half. We did go to the Muscular Arms several times, quite and education for my girlfriend who was living in Edinburgh. The offset was taking her to the Ubi Chip in its very early days and on classier days Rogano's. Went up back in the early 2000's when I was working for the MOD, how the City had changed... but of course not all of it and so much is still work in progress. Photos such as these chart history and remind us it was not always "The good old days" for everyone.
They are good pictures. I was brought up in Kinning Park Area, lived at 89 Paisley Road , 2 blocks from Paisley Road Toll. That was in the 50's and 60's. I have been in Canada 54 years and I was last home in 1984, so no doubt I would, see a great difference now. I enjoy seeing the old pictures. Thank you For posting them. Jeanettè Howson (was Chambers)
I saw a bbc article about a french photographer, who shot photos of Glasgow in 1980. That brought me on to further photos of the city. Amazing to see what other places looked like not all too long ago. The poverty is mind blowing. I lived on West Berlin in the 80's, the photos remind me a lot of places in East Berlin before 89'.
Made me sad looking at these photos great as they are - many painful memories as well as good ones remembering the friends and families lost as well as the homes and the way of life I remember from the 60s and 70s - excellent work though, thank you!
Thank you all for the comments and glad you found this period of Glasgow's history interesting. There was an exhibition at Street Level Photoworks Glasgow of my photos in January 2015. www.streetlevelphotoworks.org
The photographs are simply amazing. I feel privelaged that though I am not Glaswegian I did manage to encounter some of these scenes on visits to your great city, before it all went wrong. One question, can you recall a drink dispensing hut for poured pints in the middle of the old Buchannan St bus station around 1984, but I think Sept. 1985 if I'm right. It was obviously ilicit and served in plastic tumblers, but was the real thing in taste, etc
The pictures are brilliant & I appreciate the work you’ve done making the video. One observation though is with your choice of music. It’s like the viewer is watching a horror show and it supposed to feel bad for the people. I think it’s inappropriate because, for many, and despite the obvious poverty, these were the best of times.
@@sheenodj A fair point about the music, There's not much choice in the TH-cam music library which is what I've been using. I've changed it a few times and will keep looking for music that will be appropriate. There is another version with a licensed from Moby. th-cam.com/video/KiDI2CWkRrA/w-d-xo.html
@@titusalone1 Totally fair point and I don’t mean to criticise. It’s difficult to monetise without using the stock music. If I could be so bold, I’d suggest a bit of Andy Stewart I belong to Glasgow? Or a ballroom/pipe band version? All the best 👍
Stumbled on this , the ferry in its death throws thank you for sharing ....when ma da wasn't workin it was a trip over on that ferry , and a walk along the clyde ....in truth ....it was dirty n not nice , but it was time for me 4 ....till 7 yoa time with ma da and this just brought a billion memories back to me ....thanks
These are excellent and very powerful pics of Glasgow’s past. Very well done. My parents say they were happier times however looking at the living and working conditions in these pictures makes you wonder…….
My parents say the same. Both born in '62 in Glasgow, played in WW2 rubble as kids and didn't have a pot to piss in but they say they were happier because life was simpler and less confusing. Although like you sad the pictures do make you wonder
Excellent series of photos, barring the Gorbals area, I'm familiar with all the images here. The images of the area at the tunnel rotundas and the pedestrian ferry [I worked in Elliot Street] brought back memories of how quickly they tore those houses down. Thanks for sharing.
Nikon F Photomic, I got mine in 1975 while at the old College of Building & Printing studying Photography. This took me right back, a lovely photoessay. Thanks for uploading.
It's exactly how I remember it. Blitzed and forgotten. I came from Renfrew which was a little better but not much. A succession of garbage government and politicians who were more interested in kissing Soviet ass than helping there own folk, didn't help. We used to drop a microdot in Paisley then get the Paton's bus to Govan and get on the underground . We'd come up into the city at at St Enoch's and by then the world was amazing. We'd walk for hours and hours all over the town, getting totally lost and not caring.
Regarding the politics and kissing Soviet ass thing, I'd just like to remind you that a very likely nuclear holocaust was avoided throughout the cold war. So before you whinge and moan about politicians not being aggressive enough towards Soviet Russia, just think for a second and maybe at least be slightly thankful that the world is still here at all. For decades we were on a knife edge of global destruction, and frankly we kind of still are, just not quite so delicately.
Brilliant. Thanks for showing.1970s, for me, great times. NO internet. NO computers. NO NO twitter etc. Less people. Less cars. Less greed. Crooks, in those days they wore masks. Today they have pens. I lived just ouside Liverpool and worked in Liverpool, so much the same. Defitnitely better times than these overcrowded, clogged up roads, cut throat society we have today. Did i mention GREED.
boy that brought back some memories, hard times but good times when you knew your neighbour, born in 65 we were all the same had nothing but wanted for nothing if that makes sense, then ink when visiting my pals I had at least 2 or 3 dinners a day :) happy happy days
I can remember as a boy walking through Govan as the tenements were being tore down at a rapid rate, whole streets laid waste in no time and families uprooted.
I worked in Govan 1981-1982 as an insurance agent. Lovely people - and a gorgeous lass from Orton Street that I'll never forget. The good old days 😁😁😁😁😁😁
Harrowing images of a dark place in an even darker time. I couldn’t watch to the end as too many awful memories were being unlocked, don’t let anyone tell you these were the good old days. However, I acknowledge the skill of the photographer and his recording of a dark period of Glasgow’s social history
Not sure who here might remember him, but the wee tartan guitar player @ 2:51 onward, he used to busk outside of Woolworth on Argyll St by Miller St in the 1970s. He couldn't sing for toffee, and his guitar 'playing' was even worse! Might've used tin flutes as well. But he was part of the scenery of those days. Whoever he was, God rest his soul .....
It's amazing what image can be made by being selective in what is photographed ( nothing wrong with the actual pictures they are good) but I was born in 1956 and these pictures relate in no way to the Glasgow I grew up in. We never had an outside toilet. we never had back yards full of rubble and filth. No, I was not born in a posh area of Glasgow I was born and raised in Drumchapel. A housing scheme that initially had no amenities. but we had no filth or kids running about in rags.
The Drum was a brand new Housing Estate, I had family that moved there from Toonheid, and of course they had indoor plumbing which attracted many people who grew up in the slums, Tenements, like me... The Drum as its often called, is an awful place full of violence as you can take the boy out of the slums but you have to take the slums out of the boy.
Great photos..with the arrival,of the high rise flats poverty was just transferred to another set of buildings from the terraced houses..some very strong people emerged from these areas and unfortunately some damaged people..very sad but the city had great humour
Yeah, people tend to only remember the past as being so good because they were children...and being a child, you're completely oblivious to the real world and you also block out bad memories as you grow up. You're also, generally, just not having to deal with all the aches and pains and medical problems of the human body then, and the brain is also fresh and excited at everything. Therefore, to nearly every human being, the past always seems like some fairytale time of peace, joy and wonder even though it just wasn't. Everything was better because you were only just discovering everything in life, so you had nothing to compare with and you lived in a highly protected bubble of innocence, ignorance and play.
Born in the Gorbal's slums then the slums of the new housing in Nitshill. Got out of Glasgow as soon as I could. Not nostalgic for it at all. As someone else said this was a minority. Most people did not live like this. This poverty existed and still exists and destroys lives but it is not the history of Glasgow. Just a part of it but it seems to be what people concentrate on.
Couldn't agree more but it is Glasgow its probably one of the only places you would get something like this that's so beautiful but tragic at the same time well spotted 🥰
Sadness, anger seeing these, I immigrated to Canada in 1978. This is a one sided view though, there were (and are now , I'm given to believe, I never returned) many beautiful places in Glasgow.
Brilliant work and a vital documentation of life. This is why photography and especially street photography is so important. Remember the ordinary of today will become the fascination of tomorrow. Pity that if you photographed like this today tbe photographer would be hounded and called a paedophile.
willock st was in there somewhere in the photo right after the plantation photo I stayed there from 1967 to 1970/71ish before the houses were demolished due to storm damage we were moved to Collina st not far up the road xxx
Wow, it makes me feel so fortunate to have lived, where I did, on a brand new council estate in Mitcham, as a little girl, growing up in these years when I was aged 10 to 14 😊
4.34 mk... Terrys tatoo parlour . next door was the general wolf pub & the pop in dairy, used to walk past every day going to whitehill school from barrowfield, , terry used to park his american estate car across the road, aaah memories eh! 👍
My dad worked at the general wolf when he was a young man and had many an ice cream and hot peas in the little cafe next to the tatoo parlour. My parents lived just across the road at 4 Fielden Street my grandparents too. Patricia McDonald
@@raymondgimay4642 aye memories eh m8, i remember the owners of the dairy lost their son in the falklands war , it closed less than a year later, never knew their was houses on fielden st, there is now however (across from the cop shop) & part of the old SAKOL building looks like its been turned into flats, best regards 👍
@@DMcC-lw1tc That was so sad that they lost their son in the Falkland war.My cousin too was there.I never knew that pop in dairy I remember thé café that was there in the same spot they must have bought it after the cafe closed.Yes there was houses on Fielden Street we lived on the top above Eddie’s bar.I was born at 27 Dalserf Street I948 and went to Camlachie School later lived at Janefield Street.Yes wonderful memories there.
@@patriciagimay9195 rough old place camlachie/barrowfield, i was 1 when we moved to 379 barrowfield st (bottom end) i remember janefield st ( wooden beer barrels & the chippy under the railway arch & the grange pub, shops & tenements next to a wee swing park )on the gallowgate, we move later to law st & the mains & fisher families lived above us, i remember a factory building besside the old lane that took you from bottom of mountainblue st out to fielden st, next to the molendiner burn but i was young then, summers seemed to last longer & were warmer, as kids we used to write our names on the pavement tarmac it would melt with the hot weather 👍
Lived in North Street Tenament Anderson late 70s 80s , building dens and boogie's,playing in the back court watching the jakeys behind the Tudor and drew drop with there Bellaire 😂❤
Are all the photies( glasgee slang) all grim? I vaguely remember spending a week in glasgee in 74. I'd travelled up frae birmingham UK to spend time with my granny. 1 of my cousins flew over from Boston mass. I remember spending lot of time in the parks. Sadly it appears that none of the photos shows any parks
There's loads of these photo montages around , like this one, ... all they show are the old tenements , and the wastelands of Glasgow. And all in Black and White. Except, the world is not black and white. Glasgow had loads of parks. In the 1950's, my father worked in Tollcross Park. It had a bandstand, and I'm fairly certain that other parks in Glasgow also had bandstands. There would be summer shows. Life in Glasgow, even if you had little money, was not all misery, latch key kids, and shattered windows.
Interesting. I did some work on my house recently and found about 25 feet of old lead covered wiring and small bore lead pipe which I assume would have been for gas lighting. Also about one inch diameter lead pipe chiselled into the brick wall near the present new copper water pipe. The inlet is still lead pipe up to the stopcock. Located near Manchester.
I was 10 years old in 78. I remember the poverty and depravation in Glasgow but still fond memories. The people of Glasgow are the salt of the earth. Always a laugh. Proud Glaswegian here ❤️
Well said,poor or not,people looked after one another.Whatever the conditions the children were safe,there was always someone with an eye for strangers in the street ,etc.Sorry,I could go on but thanks for the video.That City moulded everyone of us,whether we admit it or not..Cheers
You should be lauded for taking these pics and putting them on here. They're all stunning snaps of Glasgow. I grew up in Govan in the 60's/early 70's and I can relate to these images no problem. I can remember the workies demolishing the midgiebins round the back of our Uist st which bordered the back of Elderpark st, and watching as they chased the scurrying rats with their shovels to flatten them. Then the wee guy in uniform with the stepladder lighting the close mantles at the entrance. Even the people that stayed in the bottom flats in our close had to use outside lavvies. Imean this wasn't wartime...we're talking 67-69 here. Great pics.
Thank-you for your memories, hard times to go through, but people got on with it all. Old b&w pics ❤
Some of the comments below are a bit harsh , you must remember this is the 70’s tough times all over the UK .The economic impact of the Second World War was still being felt, harsh economic conditions for everyone .Multiple deep recessions .The Glasgow people have always been warm-hearted and generous that’s never changed no matter what , the city has some of the finest Victorian architecture in the uk and wonderful green open spaces . I left Glasgow to seek my fortune down south like a lot of people of my generation born in the 50,s , never found the fortune but did carve out a decent life nonetheless less.I miss Glasgow , don’t miss the weather.
True,,, the people make Glasgow an amazing place...
I was 14 to 18 when these photos were taken, and several hundred miles away. I used to see kids like these around the estates I grew up near, so full of dreams that nobody cared to let them achieve.
So so sad, and such deprevation, but the wee ones still managed to smile 💖
OMG no wonder they all moved to Irvine in Ayrshire
Some of us fulfilled our dreams, but we had to leave to do it
Absolutely brilliant photo journalism capturing the demise of communities and the vision of modernity which was believed to solve poverty.
The images are so powerful and sad but seeing the smiles on the kids faces also gives a feeling of hope for the future.
The photo of the man in the bus station with the dog was my father Jack Phillips and his guide dog Volley he wouldn’t have known he was snapped
Hi Peter. I can send you a Jpeg of the photo you've mentioned. let me have your email.. Hugh
A wee time capsule right here, Hugh, Glasgow being ripped apart. Amazing work, thank you.
many thanks for your comment
Great old photos of Glasgow, I remember these times as I was born in 1964.
Came from Maryhill to The Drum in 1974.
I think the guy with the guitar and tartan suit was the Roller Man in these photos, he used to busk in the toon outside Frasers in Buchanan Street, does anyone remember him?
Great times in Glasgow as have great memories of these days.
I was brought up in 1960's England but I used to love going to stay with my granny in Blackhill. I used to dread my mum taking me back home because I was always happier with my Glasow family. And its still the same for me today, most of my family are gone but I still spend as much time as I can in the place I've always considered my real home.
Thanks Steven for your comment
3:15 Mrs Giusti's Dorset street Anderston. Used to go and buy we plaster figures to paint them. I still remember the smell of that shop!
I lived in Glasgow during this time and whilst there were areas that were dreadfully deprived there were also areas that were beautiful. The photos were super but needed some balance
enjoyed immensely thanks for sharing these lovely pictures . i could only imagine the memories they would give to some person wanting a wee look back
Thanks for sharing, that was incredible. I'd give everything I owned to be able to step back in time.....pure dead brilliant, you've made my day...cheers x
I remember that old guy dressed in Tartan he used to busk on Argyle Street sometimes he would have shoe laces on his guitar, he was a happy old guy
Thanks for these photos. My parents moved out of the Gorbals to East Kilbride when I was 3 in 1967. It was a new Town then and full of green space. It was the right move.
My mum's home town glory Glasgow sadly she has past but would always show her videos she loved watching them love ya mum XX love u Louise and love you dad gbnf xxx
Do you think she is up there in the sky reading the comment section of a YT video...?
Yes parts of Glasgow were pretty grim then and it took the Great Storm of January 1968 to show just how bad some of the tenements were when 29 paid with their lives. It was a wake up call which generally changed Glasgow for the better.
Despite the conditions it was and still is a city with a great spirit and warm people many of whom had little but would give you the shirt off their backs.
I love Glasgow and its people., haven't been there since this covid thing started. Hopefully, please God, we can get back to normal and get our greatly missed weekends away back again .
Thanks Hugh. As a teenager spent lots of time in Glasgow in the 70's. Your pictures sum it up in that period. Good and bad but always exciting and interesting with a hint of danger!!
Glasgow has had many changes over the years! But you’ll never find greater people !
@Marc Caldwell
Glaswegians are the best people on the planet.
So where do you come from? or don't you want to say.
@Marc Caldwell so there ain’t anyone from Edinburgh, Dundee or Aberdeen that has drink or drug problems
I have never been to Glasgow. I mean, I never stayed in Glasgow... but we drove through the city on our way to the West Coast of the Highlands. It was in 73. The image I kept is that of an avenue bordered with Victorian buildings with walled up windows, as gray as the gray sky, of a drunkard crossing the gray street almost empty of cars, empty of walkers, of swirling newspapers. Quite shocking when I was promised wide open spaces, lochs, gorgeous lights and colours, wild life and legendary castle ruins. This picture recently came back to my mind. I wanted to check if it was somewhat faithful to the reality of the time or if it was just a fantasy. At the sight of these beautiful B&W photographs, I can say today that despite my great age, my memory is not failing me.
Your memory of Glasgow at that time is spot on, yes we have beautiful open spaces and some of the best architecture but the poverty and deprivation at that time was on a massive scale, took them long enough to do something about it but its getting there much the same as most major industrial cities.
Absolutely brilliant photos, brings back so many memories. I was aged 9-13 in those years, and stayed up the red road flats 1966- 77. only left because of a fire that happened in our block. This has brought back a lot of good memories. Thank you.
The fire was in 10 red road court and after it they condemned the top 10 floors.
I remember as a kid running along the roofs of the garages and jumping onto the ledge at the bottom of the flats.
These are fascinating. A huge BRAVO for sharing this and doubtless doing many others. I lived and worked in Glasgow from mid 1972 to late 1973, sent up from London after a year as a Management Trainee to manage a distribution depot with 40 blokes in Broomloan Rd, Carlisle, Inverness and Aberdeen. I was told to play up on the fact that I came from the North East (not London!), to avoid talking about Religion and watch talking about Footie. Lived in the West End using the Underground to get round - just loved that it swayed so much and the smell... never forgotten - just watching the films of the Underground brings it back straight away. I don't think I realised at the time how derilict some parts of Glasgow was, though some of our drivers lived nearby and we would have to go to see them from time to time in the Tenements and also out to the East End. We used to deliver payrolls to the shipyards, mainly building Oil drilling platforms at the time which was fascinating... did I miss the Big Yin I wonder? Had the opportunity to visit many businesses in and around Glasgow as part of getting new work. Always after there would be a drink but I could never do the Heavy and a Half. We did go to the Muscular Arms several times, quite and education for my girlfriend who was living in Edinburgh. The offset was taking her to the Ubi Chip in its very early days and on classier days Rogano's. Went up back in the early 2000's when I was working for the MOD, how the City had changed... but of course not all of it and so much is still work in progress. Photos such as these chart history and remind us it was not always "The good old days" for everyone.
Good story.
Fantastic photos. A trip down memory lane for me.
The memories are flooding back, thank you so much for this
Every time I watch videos like this I’m reminded how different Edinburgh and Glasgow are from each other. It’s like two different Scotland’s.
They are good pictures. I was brought up in Kinning Park Area, lived at 89 Paisley Road , 2 blocks from Paisley Road Toll. That was in the 50's and 60's.
I have been in Canada 54 years and I was last home in 1984, so no doubt
I would, see a great difference now. I enjoy seeing the old pictures. Thank you
For posting them. Jeanettè Howson (was Chambers)
I saw a bbc article about a french photographer, who shot photos of Glasgow in 1980. That brought me on to further photos of the city. Amazing to see what other places looked like not all too long ago. The poverty is mind blowing. I lived on West Berlin in the 80's, the photos remind me a lot of places in East Berlin before 89'.
Your not missing much hen.
Made me sad looking at these photos great as they are - many painful memories as well as good ones remembering the friends and families lost as well as the homes and the way of life I remember from the 60s and 70s - excellent work though, thank you!
Half expected to see myself in amongst these. I'd have been between 8 and 12 during this period and the memories still feel fresh.
Me too, strange to see those times again.
I can relate to these photographs recognise so many places people where happier in those days and they had nothing thank you so much for sharing
Thanks, this brought back so many happy memories. 👍
Thank you all for the comments and glad you found this period of Glasgow's history interesting. There was an exhibition at Street Level Photoworks Glasgow of my photos in January 2015. www.streetlevelphotoworks.org
The photographs are simply amazing. I feel privelaged that though I am not Glaswegian I did manage to encounter some
of these scenes on visits to your great city, before it all went wrong. One question, can you recall a drink dispensing hut
for poured pints in the middle of the old Buchannan St bus station around 1984, but I think Sept. 1985 if I'm right.
It was obviously ilicit and served in plastic tumblers, but was the real thing in taste, etc
these are amazing, I would have been about 8 and can remember some of these scenes
The pictures are brilliant & I appreciate the work you’ve done making the video. One observation though is with your choice of music. It’s like the viewer is watching a horror show and it supposed to feel bad for the people. I think it’s inappropriate because, for many, and despite the obvious poverty, these were the best of times.
@@sheenodj A fair point about the music, There's not much choice in the TH-cam music library which is what I've been using. I've changed it a few times and will keep looking for music that will be appropriate. There is another version with a licensed from Moby. th-cam.com/video/KiDI2CWkRrA/w-d-xo.html
@@titusalone1 Totally fair point and I don’t mean to criticise. It’s difficult to monetise without using the stock music. If I could be so bold, I’d suggest a bit of Andy Stewart I belong to Glasgow? Or a ballroom/pipe band version? All the best 👍
Moved from Glasgow to Irvine at age 4 in 1977 so I missed playin in the midden!!!
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Stumbled on this , the ferry in its death throws thank you for sharing ....when ma da wasn't workin it was a trip over on that ferry , and a walk along the clyde ....in truth ....it was dirty n not nice , but it was time for me 4 ....till 7 yoa time with ma da and this just brought a billion memories back to me ....thanks
Top drawer street photography, absolutely wonderful....
These are excellent and very powerful pics of Glasgow’s past. Very well done. My parents say they were happier times however looking at the living and working conditions in these pictures makes you wonder…….
My parents say the same. Both born in '62 in Glasgow, played in WW2 rubble as kids and didn't have a pot to piss in but they say they were happier because life was simpler and less confusing. Although like you sad the pictures do make you wonder
Excellent series of photos, barring the Gorbals area, I'm familiar with all the images here. The images of the area at the tunnel rotundas and the pedestrian ferry [I worked in Elliot Street] brought back memories of how quickly they tore those houses down.
Thanks for sharing.
All that important history captured by your great eye and camera Hugh. Thank you.
Hi Zeno, Many thanks for the kind comment. Hope you are keeping well and busy.
I started my nurse training in 1978...I was born at Queen's Cross Maryhill and remember the tenements being pulled down.
Well Done Sir, great to see these shots capturing the moment. The B&W adds to the nostalgia!
Nikon F Photomic, I got mine in 1975 while at the old College of Building & Printing studying Photography. This took me right back, a lovely photoessay. Thanks for uploading.
Yes, Great camera. I also went to same the College of printing
Superb documentary photography got the touch of Bresson about it.
That first pic of Bedford Street is amazing. That whole street has been demolished now
It's exactly how I remember it. Blitzed and forgotten. I came from Renfrew which was a little better but not much. A succession of garbage government and politicians who were more interested in kissing Soviet ass than helping there own folk, didn't help.
We used to drop a microdot in Paisley then get the Paton's bus to Govan and get on the underground . We'd come up into the city at at St Enoch's and by then the world was amazing. We'd walk for hours and hours all over the town, getting totally lost and not caring.
Regarding the politics and kissing Soviet ass thing, I'd just like to remind you that a very likely nuclear holocaust was avoided throughout the cold war. So before you whinge and moan about politicians not being aggressive enough towards Soviet Russia, just think for a second and maybe at least be slightly thankful that the world is still here at all. For decades we were on a knife edge of global destruction, and frankly we kind of still are, just not quite so delicately.
Garbage governments, tearing down the tenements and forcing the people into decent housing.
Wonderful photographs, thank you! If you have any of Dundee (at any period of time) - please post them too.
Striking collection of images; all very relatable and a testament to how much our dear City has grown over the past 40 years 👍
Yep .. fantastic memories, bringing it all back home to me. Wonderful music to suit too
An astonishing collection of photos.
Brilliant. Thanks for showing.1970s, for me, great times. NO internet. NO computers. NO NO twitter etc. Less people. Less cars. Less greed. Crooks, in those days they wore masks. Today they have pens. I lived just ouside Liverpool and worked in Liverpool, so much the same. Defitnitely better times than these overcrowded, clogged up roads, cut throat society we have today. Did i mention GREED.
boy that brought back some memories, hard times but good times when you knew your neighbour, born in 65 we were all the same had nothing but wanted for nothing if that makes sense, then ink when visiting my pals I had at least 2 or 3 dinners a day :) happy happy days
The mural on the gable end is of a painting by Paisley artist John Byrne. A great Scottish artist and still underrated.
William of Orange on his horse, if I remember. Part of Glasgow’s sectarian past, I hope.
I wish I could have taken these. God bless Glasgow.
Fantastic. thanks for sharing.
I grew up in Anderston in the 70’s, great work
A great set of pictures. Thank you. ;-)
fantastic images, really enjoyed watching
What an incredible record. Until 1963 we lived only a few yards from where the photo of Gerry's Snack Bar was taken at 3:40, in Clydebank.
I can remember as a boy walking through Govan as the tenements were being tore down at a rapid rate, whole streets laid waste in no time and families uprooted.
I worked in Govan 1981-1982 as an insurance agent. Lovely people - and a gorgeous lass from Orton Street that I'll never forget. The good old days 😁😁😁😁😁😁
Harrowing images of a dark place in an even darker time. I couldn’t watch to the end as too many awful memories were being unlocked, don’t let anyone tell you these were the good old days. However, I acknowledge the skill of the photographer and his recording of a dark period of Glasgow’s social history
Dark period!compared to nowadays or to the twenties? Every city has dark periods
what dark period 78 onwards were the dark period when Thatcher destroyed it like every other working class city north of Watford
Stunning pics and cool soundtrack
Not sure who here might remember him, but the wee tartan guitar player @ 2:51 onward, he used to busk outside of Woolworth on Argyll St by Miller St in the 1970s. He couldn't sing for toffee, and his guitar 'playing' was even worse! Might've used tin flutes as well. But he was part of the scenery of those days. Whoever he was, God rest his soul .....
It's amazing what image can be made by being selective in what is photographed ( nothing wrong with the actual pictures they are good) but I was born in 1956 and these pictures relate in no way to the Glasgow I grew up in. We never had an outside toilet. we never had back yards full of rubble and filth. No, I was not born in a posh area of Glasgow I was born and raised in Drumchapel. A housing scheme that initially had no amenities. but we had no filth or kids running about in rags.
The Drum was a brand new Housing Estate, I had family that moved there from Toonheid, and of course they had indoor plumbing which attracted many people who grew up in the slums, Tenements, like me... The Drum as its often called, is an awful place full of violence as you can take the boy out of the slums but you have to take the slums out of the boy.
You were fortunate. I remember Kinning Park looking exactly like these photos before I moved to a new estate in 1971.
Great photos..with the arrival,of the high rise flats poverty was just transferred to another set of buildings from the terraced houses..some very strong people emerged from these areas and unfortunately some damaged people..very sad but the city had great humour
Utterly depressing or ‘The good old days’? Either way, fascinating.
Yeah, people tend to only remember the past as being so good because they were children...and being a child, you're completely oblivious to the real world and you also block out bad memories as you grow up. You're also, generally, just not having to deal with all the aches and pains and medical problems of the human body then, and the brain is also fresh and excited at everything. Therefore, to nearly every human being, the past always seems like some fairytale time of peace, joy and wonder even though it just wasn't. Everything was better because you were only just discovering everything in life, so you had nothing to compare with and you lived in a highly protected bubble of innocence, ignorance and play.
Aye , gone but no forgotten !
I went to Glasgow for the weekend about twenty years ago it was brilliant 👍
Great story.
Born in the Gorbal's slums then the slums of the new housing in Nitshill. Got out of Glasgow as soon as I could. Not nostalgic for it at all. As someone else said this was a minority. Most people did not live like this. This poverty existed and still exists and destroys lives but it is not the history of Glasgow. Just a part of it but it seems to be what people concentrate on.
thanks for the memories it was great to see plantation street again the way it used to be fantastic
Hi Jeanette, Many thanks for your comment
For an amateur photographer like me, this is very inspiring.
Amazing shots from a bygone era…
thanks Stuart for the comment
Wow, some great pictures. They look like scenes from straight after WW2. It’s incredible how gentrified much of Glasgow has become.
These are amazing Hugh, just subscribed. Can't wait to see more
nice seeing some pics of shitehill (sighthill).....kicked many a ba' at the bottom of the flats
Fabulous photos
Wonderful photographer
Many thanks
BRILLIANT VIDEO
Brilliant photos, yet so tragic
Couldn't agree more but it is Glasgow its probably one of the only places you would get something like this that's so beautiful but tragic at the same time well spotted 🥰
Wish there was a caption on each photo telling you what area it's in
St Patrick’s Primary in Anderson and also what remained of the “Tarzie” swing on the bridge.
Sadness, anger seeing these, I immigrated to Canada in 1978. This is a one sided view though, there were (and are now , I'm given to believe, I never returned) many beautiful places in Glasgow.
Great melancholic pics.
Good to see you only showed the good bits.
Great pictures am from glasgow I was born year before that
Why, when making films, or showing photos of Glasgow, they only show run down area's, they are plenty nice areas,
Good to see, thank you from me in Irvine 😁😁
Glad you enjoyed it
Quality Hugh..Slainte
Glad i found this - some great pictures there - we should count ourselves lucky there are still some slums that escaped the bulldozer for us to enjoy
Brilliant work and a vital documentation of life. This is why photography and especially street photography is so important. Remember the ordinary of today will become the fascination of tomorrow.
Pity that if you photographed like this today tbe photographer would be hounded and called a paedophile.
Thanks this was nice takes me back
Amazing !! Thanks 🙏
willock st was in there somewhere in the photo right after the plantation photo I stayed there from 1967 to 1970/71ish before the houses were demolished due to storm damage we were moved to Collina st not far up the road xxx
Wow, it makes me feel so fortunate to have lived, where I did, on a brand new council estate in Mitcham, as a little girl, growing up in these years when I was aged 10 to 14 😊
4.34 mk... Terrys tatoo parlour . next door was the general wolf pub & the pop in dairy, used to walk past every day going to whitehill school from barrowfield, , terry used to park his american estate car across the road, aaah memories eh! 👍
My dad worked at the general wolf when he was a young man and had many an ice cream and hot peas in the little cafe next to the tatoo parlour. My parents lived just across the road at 4 Fielden Street my grandparents too. Patricia McDonald
@@raymondgimay4642 aye memories eh m8, i remember the owners of the dairy lost their son in the falklands war , it closed less than a year later, never knew their was houses on fielden st, there is now however (across from the cop shop) & part of the old SAKOL building looks like its been turned into flats, best regards 👍
@@DMcC-lw1tc That was so sad that they lost their son in the Falkland war.My cousin too was there.I never knew that pop in dairy I remember thé café that was there in the same spot they must have bought it after the cafe closed.Yes there was houses on Fielden Street we lived on the top above Eddie’s bar.I was born at 27 Dalserf Street I948 and went to Camlachie School later lived at Janefield Street.Yes wonderful memories there.
@@patriciagimay9195 rough old place camlachie/barrowfield, i was 1 when we moved to 379 barrowfield st (bottom end) i remember janefield st ( wooden beer barrels & the chippy under the railway arch & the grange pub, shops & tenements next to a wee swing park )on the gallowgate, we move later to law st & the mains & fisher families lived above us, i remember a factory building besside the old lane that took you from bottom of mountainblue st out to fielden st, next to the molendiner burn but i was young then, summers seemed to last longer & were warmer, as kids we used to write our names on the pavement tarmac it would melt with the hot weather 👍
@@DMcC-lw1tc I worked in the old sakol factory 1977
These are very good photos
Thanks for this.
My pleasure!
Thanks
Lived in North Street Tenament Anderson late 70s 80s , building dens and boogie's,playing in the back court watching the jakeys behind the Tudor and drew drop with there Bellaire 😂❤
Aye was that soldier god bless made me the man i am today love glasgow from the bum from the drum
Are all the photies( glasgee slang) all grim? I vaguely remember spending a week in glasgee in 74. I'd travelled up frae birmingham UK to spend time with my granny. 1 of my cousins flew over from Boston mass. I remember spending lot of time in the parks. Sadly it appears that none of the photos shows any parks
There's loads of these photo montages around , like this one, ... all they show are the old tenements , and the wastelands of Glasgow. And all in Black and White. Except, the world is not black and white. Glasgow had loads of parks. In the 1950's, my father worked in Tollcross Park. It had a bandstand, and I'm fairly certain that other parks in Glasgow also had bandstands. There would be summer shows. Life in Glasgow, even if you had little money, was not all misery, latch key kids, and shattered windows.
@@andrewpreston4127 : Growing up in Toonheid, Alexandra Parade we often went to Alexandra Park and took the wee boats out on the Lake.
Extreme deprivation and poverty but ironically better times than the so called'modern' world.
Interesting. I did some work on my house recently and found about 25 feet of old lead covered wiring and small bore lead pipe which I assume would have been for gas lighting. Also about one inch diameter lead pipe chiselled into the brick wall near the present new copper water pipe. The inlet is still lead pipe up to the stopcock. Located near Manchester.
What happened Bill? You were telling a nice little DIY story and then you went all racist
@@PaulSmith-fi1vg I he went all english on us
Why was your stop cock located near Manchester 🤪
Nice work!
Death burger van at Charing Cross unreal!