Last Days of the Old Gorbals - part 1

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  • A compilation of some of the photographs I took between 1973 and 1975, before the old Gorbals was more or less obliterated.
    The full set can be seen at
    www.streapadair.com/History
    The Gaelic songs are by Joan MacKenzie of Lewis (Bothan Airigh am Braigh Raineach) and Flora McNeil of Barra (A Phiuthrag 's a Phiuthar)

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  • @johnmckinlay67
    @johnmckinlay67 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    These photos are great,it's just how I remember it. Moved up to Castlemilk in 62,and can remember these streets as they were coming to an end.

  • @jrk9372
    @jrk9372 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Should have kept those buildings.
    Bloody disgrace.

  • @marionfletcher7973
    @marionfletcher7973 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I was married and had my reception in St Mungo. Left the gorbals in 1972 and although I don’t remember it looking this bad it obviously did. Makes. Me so sad if only they had renovated instead of demolishing

  • @ibroxholme
    @ibroxholme 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Beautiful compilation of photo's Streapadair. I managed to get back into my channel after finding my old password and e-mail address after 5 years, only to find out that the editing function for videos was removed on the 2nd of May this year, ( I was wanting to add your name the ending credits)...but I could edit the opening introduction, so I have added your name there!!
    Once again, thanks for allowing me to show your photo's on my video....Ibroxholme

  • @egallagher41
    @egallagher41 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I lived there and was too young to see the beauty around me. I walked the streets of home and was taken away by the dreams of tomorrow to see the future that is here today. Glasgow lost too much to short sighted well meaning people, please do not let this happen again - we have so little left and our past is but the path to our future and we need that path to walk on

    • @egallagher41
      @egallagher41 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @buggeroff So everyone who wears glasses (because they are short sighted) do not mean well? or maybe the planners who only look to the IMMEDIATE (short) future do not mean well? or? Can we learn and can we improve by preservation rather than destruction the future, or have we learned nothing? We have so little left of our past what matters for the future is how we save and preserve who we are!
      And I was brought up in Hospital street many years ago and Gaelic (Irish) was common as were the songs.

  • @mariewylie343
    @mariewylie343 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Beautifully sung.... Evocative...

    • @duncanstirling5206
      @duncanstirling5206 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And in the Scottish language too.

    • @williamf4544
      @williamf4544 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes Garlic is quite haunting sometimes

  • @celticdollface
    @celticdollface 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I was born in Hospital street. My granda drank in the Turf bar

  • @buckholdboy967
    @buckholdboy967 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a wonderful bridge and that St mungo's halls facade.

  • @leitfie3579
    @leitfie3579 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    These are wonderful, but sad, images ..........

  • @ladystardust2008
    @ladystardust2008 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I live in Gorbals now. The awful inhumane housing had to come down, but why destroy the antique public buildings as well? It's so sad and beautiful compared to the faceless corporate boxes there are now. Obviously they didn't see the point of renovation back then.

  • @ronniecairns6335
    @ronniecairns6335 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Hi I was born in mc Neil St num 45,in1943,I don't think St mungo halls were in mc Neil St as far as I can remember mind you left there 9years of age for castlemilk 59 Ballantay Rd what a difference your own toilet, been lucky have finished up in tenerife 15 years ,best move I ever made,but still love the memories

    • @deeferry6520
      @deeferry6520 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think it was on the corner of Ballater street and Moffat Street, I lived in the building attached to the distillery and it was on the next corner

  • @robertafierro5592
    @robertafierro5592 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful song..

  • @eksteelman
    @eksteelman 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sad only in that people lived in such terrible conditions.

    • @Revolver1981
      @Revolver1981 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      eksteelman The only terrible thing about it is the corrupt criminals at the council destroying that area forever. I know it's improved again in recent years but it'll never be the same. The even more corrupt police should've prosecuted the planners and locked them up.

    • @Revolver1981
      @Revolver1981 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @jemimallah Everyone in the city was against it because of the loss of so many buildings. Yes they didn't want communities ripped apart but also they didn't want the buildings demolished either.

  • @martynduffy
    @martynduffy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My very first house or flat was 13/5 170 sandyfeild rd flats hated the flats but stayed there years I’m way down north west now in my own house but I called the Gorbals home

  • @pataklolz9695
    @pataklolz9695 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It changed so much btw i like in the gorbals and it changed sooooooo much well some of it i think my school changed a wee bit

  • @charlesshields305
    @charlesshields305 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The St Mungo Halls were in Moffat St., not McNeil St.--as I recall it.

    • @streapadair
      @streapadair  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks Mr Shields, you're quite correct, corner of Ballater St. and Moffat St. My mistake.

  • @engelberthumperdinck7366
    @engelberthumperdinck7366 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If you like this read The Real Gorbals Story book.. brilliant 👍

  • @engelberthumperdinck7366
    @engelberthumperdinck7366 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    READ THE REAL GORBALS STORY NEXT BRILLIANT

  • @Kizzmypixel2023
    @Kizzmypixel2023 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    my great grandfather was born 44 rose street

  • @fionacampbell1104
    @fionacampbell1104 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Is there a reason for gaelic singer in background? Were there many gaelic speakers in the Gorbals?

    • @josephberrie9550
      @josephberrie9550 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      yes all from the western isles we also had them in old garngad together with many irish immigrants

    • @saorsa5
      @saorsa5 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes gaelic is the language of scotland now fk off and wave yer union flag to someone who gives a fk

    • @charlieemslie7708
      @charlieemslie7708 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@saorsa5You are easily upset mick🤣🤣🇬🇧🇬🇧

  • @JimTim1948
    @JimTim1948 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    St Mungo Halls, Moffat St. Not McNeil St.

  • @somerledislay9987
    @somerledislay9987 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No Gorbals Street !

  • @hectorbrown656
    @hectorbrown656 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you.

  • @ItsRael108
    @ItsRael108 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🕴️

  • @markwilliams4362
    @markwilliams4362 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    ❤️👍🙏🇦🇺

  • @barbaraadams4751
    @barbaraadams4751 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It looks so grim, slums

    • @annabellamarston448
      @annabellamarston448 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      May have looked grim but packed with good kindhearted folks who brought up respectable families I against the odds: mine being one of them

    • @annabellamarston448
      @annabellamarston448 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thank you love your music choice…from a ex-pat Weegie

    • @williamsafari6437
      @williamsafari6437 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@annabellamarston448 BORN GORBALS X 1954 THE PEOPLE WERE THE BEST

  • @johnmcfarlane1580
    @johnmcfarlane1580 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sining not required ffs

    • @user-ko4xj3fs4t
      @user-ko4xj3fs4t 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Select mute then ffs.

  • @jimmcfarlane5611
    @jimmcfarlane5611 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Glasgow is so depressing

    • @elizabethf1591
      @elizabethf1591 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Pulled down years ago.

  • @briangoudie3531
    @briangoudie3531 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Was the music and singer in Chinese

    • @duncanstirling5206
      @duncanstirling5206 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No, that's your own Scottish language, you must be a wee Englishman or in other words a Sevco supporter. LOL!

    • @fionacampbell1104
      @fionacampbell1104 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It is Scottish gaelic.

    • @josephberrie9550
      @josephberrie9550 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I take it you are a glaswgian and just taking the mick of a gaelic singer...you know a real scottish person

    • @fionacampbell1104
      @fionacampbell1104 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I am Glaswegian and I live on Skye.

  • @michaelmacluskie6089
    @michaelmacluskie6089 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why playing Red Indian music has anything to do with the Gorbals??

    • @tigerbricks
      @tigerbricks 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Michael Macluskie mick think it's Gaelic

    • @duncanstirling5206
      @duncanstirling5206 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's your own Scottish language ya Sevco supporter.

    • @fionacampbell1104
      @fionacampbell1104 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It is gaelic.