Thanks so much, that's a lovely thing to say. I am trying to source some films that I worked on in the 80s and 90s that were really interesting, so keep watching.
Grew up in Drumchapel at exactly the time of this video. Lived in Ryedale at the time of this I think, or Kinclaven Ave. We had a ball and to be honest, we never noticed how bad it was. When I look back at these videos, it's a wonder we ever survived. Most of the folk I know who got out, went on to be pretty successful career folk. I think the Drum taught us how to fight for something, cause we had nothing. Our parents had no chance.
Thank you, I trying to find one I made in the early 90s with a group of young people in Drumchapel it was a low budget drama called "Taking the Blame" the local community were amazing and gave us so much help and support in making it. I only have a very bad VHS copy of it.
It's absolutely brilliant to see some streets i haven't seen in so many years. It wasn't Beverly Hills, but i never knew any different at the time and it was the hand you were dealt. Some of the best people ive ever had the pleasure of knowing in life and made me the man i am. There's a lot worse than Drumchapel nowadays in Glasgow, let me tell you. I'll never hear a bad word about the Drum even now. Thanks for the video!
I stayed up the hill 1967 -1981 left for the big smoke when I was 17 , funny thing we also moved there from Maryhill ( Lochburn Road ) and Ladyloan Ave in the Drum , I’ve no been there 40+ years, I got no complaints, I enjoyed getting brought up here.
Talk about underfunded and being neglected by the city of Glasgow's ruling bodies .More than £300 billion of Scotland's oil wealth went to London during this time of degradation,while places like Drumchapel suffered irreparable damage and abject poverty ... unforgivable overall decisions fro Thatcher's Tory government .
There is the alternative of going to work , if you can't find a job create one , I got a start up business grant through Drumchapel Opportunites & started my own business as a painter/decorator & my son was my apprentice , I have friends who did the same thing , this video concentrates on everything negative about the Drum , life is what you make it ,
I come from and still live in Drumchapel. Like every other scheme in the city it’s had its up and downs. However in today’s world of 2024 a lot of change, however still a lot of good people. Great to see this
Dunno who the narrator is on this but she's probably fae Peel Glen. Well played to all who survived. Remember empathy for others who might now be the scapegoat Absolutely beautiful Fuk The System
Lived in 321 Kinfauns. I had a fantastic childhood too. Collecting all the ginger bottles to go get a penny mixtures from the van, building tree swings, making dens, you name it! What a life. Better than Waynes now of days with there iPads etc
I remember it well, It always felt like I was going to a fancier part of the city, but as i was coming from pollok to visit my grandparents it was by far a nicer place, it's funny to think all these years later and Glasgow is still a shit-hole most of the jobs are still low paid service sector and you can still hear mothers in drumchapel shout obscene language at their offspring, ah, Scotland eh!, the only country to have had oil and never see a penny from it, in fact we voted not to run our own country & have wealth, but instead allowed another to run us into the ground, kill off nearly all the industries that paid anything close to a decent wage, but we can look at the things we do have like the most drug deaths per year in Europe the shortest life expectancy a failing NHS a joke of a government & an out of control mass immigration problem (1 in 10 of us wasn't born here) and that number of these foreign folk grows every year, it's funny how when you've grown up in a shit-hole like the Drum and you get a crap job a crap car and a crap house you think I'm way better off than folk were when I was young & you miss the bigger picture of maybe 30 years from now in my city it might become like London/England or am I being a far right racist for not wanting my country to become like England or Germany, France,Ireland or any of these other countries which are having riots because of mass-immigration, Id happily go back to having nothing in 1985 than be living with the worry of what we might become.
The people make it worse by breaking into their neighbours houses and stealing from their fellow strugglers, vandalising anything thats breakable. Kids dont have modern play parks because it would vandalised so the kids have minimal unbreakable swings. I left Glasgow at 17 and only went back to visit family.
narrated by somebody who never grew up in the Drum, we moved up the Hill 1959 & I still live in the Drum , lots of gloomy images of the scheme as it was getting demolished , but a lack of pics of all the well tended gardens , children of all ages happily playing everywhere , football , kick the can , rounders , tig , swings on the washing poles & many other pastimes & all this without a phone in sight (unless you count the phone boxes) changed days
Grew up in a similar place. You could have put them all in new houses, gave them all new clothes, a car, free holidays and doubled any benefits and the place would be turned back into a shitehole within a year.
Jesus Christ I've never seen such depravity in my entire life especially in Glasgow. It's an abomination to human life. It's made me feel sick and ill just watching this. I never knew that the governments were so negligent.
To be honest the narration was inaccurate, and most sounds like it was recanted by someone who didnt even live there (hypocritical revisionism) , the drum was a great place to live in the 70s and 80s , it's decline was more 90s , many streets are there in name only as it was leveled, also in thr video it duesnt show tue well kept maintained gardems and closes , mines where red and the where akways floor edges painted white , people took pride in where they luced ,showing derelict or junkies squates isnt showing the whole picture
you have a lot of faith for a man who does nothing but lie he is the most corrupt P.M. this country has ever had , he would be quite happy if we all lived like that , the Labour Part is no longer a part for the working class , ppl arriving in small boats live in 5 Star hotels , if a Muslim has 3 wives he gets £ 140 per week for each wife on top of all the other benefits he receives , & as Millions are spent on immigrants daily our veterans & homeless sleep on the streets with winter approaching Starmer, like a lot of politicians in the "west " is nothing more than a puppet for the WEF
@datrenarakiel8202 it's not the accent it's the political narrative like every bad choice made was someone else's fault ! Parts of the scheme were a sh---ole which was not local or national government, s fault like people who urinated and vomiting in people closes or drug dealers
The 80s would be when they started moving folk from Blackhill. Given some of the folk who moved there, it is not a surprise how bad it became. (Though according to my mates who moved there, it was still better than Blackhill.) I really like watching these old videos - they are great glimpses of history. They should be shown to the precious, entitled weans we have now, though I doubt they would have any more appreciation for what they get for doing less than nothing.
I left a slum in Maryhill in 1970 for the comparative luxury of a house in Drummore Road. For personal reasons we had to move up the Hill in 1975. Whilst agreeing that Drumchapel saw a major decline in many aspects from the late 80’s onwards, I am proud to say that Drumchapel is where I am from. It saddens me greatly that the place I loved growing up has declined to the degree it has, evidenced to a large degree by the deplorable state of the once vibrant hub of the community, the Supey. 🥲🥲
Peter, every video you add is utterly compelling. Thank you so much for sharing these histories.
Thanks so much, that's a lovely thing to say. I am trying to source some films that I worked on in the 80s and 90s that were really interesting, so keep watching.
Grew up in Drumchapel at exactly the time of this video. Lived in Ryedale at the time of this I think, or Kinclaven Ave. We had a ball and to be honest, we never noticed how bad it was. When I look back at these videos, it's a wonder we ever survived. Most of the folk I know who got out, went on to be pretty successful career folk. I think the Drum taught us how to fight for something, cause we had nothing. Our parents had no chance.
The Drum is a lot better nowadays in 2023, but a great social history film, nice wan Bud, from Glasgow 😎👏👏👏👏👍🇬🇧
Thank you, I trying to find one I made in the early 90s with a group of young people in Drumchapel it was a low budget drama called "Taking the Blame" the local community were amazing and gave us so much help and support in making it. I only have a very bad VHS copy of it.
It's absolutely brilliant to see some streets i haven't seen in so many years. It wasn't Beverly Hills, but i never knew any different at the time and it was the hand you were dealt.
Some of the best people ive ever had the pleasure of knowing in life and made me the man i am.
There's a lot worse than Drumchapel nowadays in Glasgow, let me tell you.
I'll never hear a bad word about the Drum even now.
Thanks for the video!
I stayed up the hill 1967 -1981 left for the big smoke when I was 17 , funny thing we also moved there from Maryhill ( Lochburn Road ) and Ladyloan Ave in the Drum , I’ve no been there 40+ years, I got no complaints, I enjoyed getting brought up here.
Talk about underfunded and being neglected by the city of Glasgow's ruling bodies .More than £300 billion of Scotland's oil wealth went to London during this time of degradation,while places like Drumchapel suffered irreparable damage and abject poverty ... unforgivable overall decisions fro Thatcher's Tory government .
It’s so sad looking back and wondering what happened to all the people we once knew.😢
My old man grew up in Drumchapel in the 60s , Robert Richardson , now 74 and living in Dundee.
I left the drum in 83 and went back to possil, best move I ever made.
There is the alternative of going to work , if you can't find a job create one , I got a start up business grant through Drumchapel Opportunites & started my own business as a painter/decorator & my son was my apprentice , I have friends who did the same thing , this video concentrates on everything negative about the Drum , life is what you make it ,
This is our history, thanks for this video... Brilliant narration on this one Peter.
I come from and still live in Drumchapel. Like every other scheme in the city it’s had its up and downs. However in today’s world of 2024 a lot of change, however still a lot of good people. Great to see this
It was a total waste of good land, and still too much of that horrible scheme stands today.
Fantastic piece of history. Anyone know the what the soundtrack is?
Dunno who the narrator is on this but she's probably fae Peel Glen. Well played to all who survived. Remember empathy for others who might now be the scapegoat
Absolutely beautiful
Fuk The System
What I liked about the Drum was when I served in Belfast in 88 it was nothing new to me.
Great video i lived there from 1973 to 1997 and was glad to get out.
Sorry you’re not describing the Drumchapel I grew up in.Lived in Kinfauns drive for 27 years wasn’t perfect but I enjoyed my poor childhood
Lived in kinfauns myself 351 , then ryedale place ...cracking
i stayed in Kerry place all through the 70's , it was great hardly any money but we had a football.
I lived up the hill no complaints,loved growing up there ❤
I had relatives in Kinfauns drive. Loved visiting
Lived in 321 Kinfauns. I had a fantastic childhood too. Collecting all the ginger bottles to go get a penny mixtures from the van, building tree swings, making dens, you name it! What a life. Better than Waynes now of days with there iPads etc
Excellent narration.
The 80s look so lonely, isolated and gritty from the camera footage.
When digitising it you could have adjusted the colour cast
I remember it well, It always felt like I was going to a fancier part of the city, but as i was coming from pollok to visit my grandparents it was by far a nicer place, it's funny to think all these years later and Glasgow is still a shit-hole most of the jobs are still low paid service sector and you can still hear mothers in drumchapel shout obscene language at their offspring, ah, Scotland eh!, the only country to have had oil and never see a penny from it, in fact we voted not to run our own country & have wealth, but instead allowed another to run us into the ground, kill off nearly all the industries that paid anything close to a decent wage, but we can look at the things we do have like the most drug deaths per year in Europe the shortest life expectancy a failing NHS a joke of a government & an out of control mass immigration problem (1 in 10 of us wasn't born here) and that number of these foreign folk grows every year, it's funny how when you've grown up in a shit-hole like the Drum and you get a crap job a crap car and a crap house you think I'm way better off than folk were when I was young & you miss the bigger picture of maybe 30 years from now in my city it might become like London/England or am I being a far right racist for not wanting my country to become like England or Germany, France,Ireland or any of these other countries which are having riots because of mass-immigration, Id happily go back to having nothing in 1985 than be living with the worry of what we might become.
The people make it worse by breaking into their neighbours houses and stealing from their fellow strugglers, vandalising anything thats breakable. Kids dont have modern play parks because it would vandalised so the kids have minimal unbreakable swings. I left Glasgow at 17 and only went back to visit family.
narrated by somebody who never grew up in the Drum, we moved up the Hill 1959 & I still live in the Drum , lots of gloomy images of the scheme as it was getting demolished , but a lack of pics of all the well tended gardens , children of all ages happily playing everywhere , football , kick the can , rounders , tig , swings on the washing poles & many other pastimes & all this without a phone in sight (unless you count the phone boxes) changed days
Lived in tallant rd from 59 to 78 moved to england
Grew up in a similar place. You could have put them all in new houses, gave them all new clothes, a car, free holidays and doubled any benefits and the place would be turned back into a shitehole within a year.
I was there 1988 living in 9 Cally Avenue.
my mum was also living there at the time
Rydale down to invercanny to Robert Burns street from DRUMCHAPEL to Clydebank ❤
First one without subtitles
My mum grew up here in the 80s
Ma auld house up the hull 39 lochgoin at0.50. 80s90s
Just shows you, poverty is generational and can’t be solved by knocked down estates.
Jesus Christ I've never seen such depravity in my entire life especially in Glasgow. It's an abomination to human life. It's made me feel sick and ill just watching this. I never knew that the governments were so negligent.
When I think of glasgow in the 80s and early 90s that video sums up my early years. Full of alchys and bully's.
@@kennyrowat9838 No wonder it would drive anyone to an early grave.
You can thank liebour for that
To be honest the narration was inaccurate, and most sounds like it was recanted by someone who didnt even live there (hypocritical revisionism)
, the drum was a great place to live in the 70s and 80s , it's decline was more 90s , many streets are there in name only as it was leveled, also in thr video it duesnt show tue well kept maintained gardems and closes , mines where red and the where akways floor edges painted white , people took pride in where they luced ,showing derelict or junkies squates isnt showing the whole picture
What? The video shows something very different
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Keir Starmer will make sure nobody lives like this ever again.
You're joking aren't you! He hates working class whites! 🫣🤒
you have a lot of faith for a man who does nothing but lie he is the most corrupt P.M. this country has ever had , he would be quite happy if we all lived like that , the Labour Part is no longer a part for the working class , ppl arriving in small boats live in 5 Star hotels , if a Muslim has 3 wives he gets £ 140 per week for each wife on top of all the other benefits he receives , & as Millions are spent on immigrants daily our veterans & homeless sleep on the streets with winter approaching Starmer, like a lot of politicians in the "west " is nothing more than a puppet for the WEF
LOL
Keir Starmer will prove himself to be the worst PM labour has ever had. But I'm sure you're joking sir
Great film till she opened her mouth !
@datrenarakiel8202 it's not the accent it's the political narrative like every bad choice made was someone else's fault ! Parts of the scheme were a sh---ole which was not local or national government, s fault like people who urinated and vomiting in people closes or drug dealers
Massive chip on her shoulder
Hi anybody here remember janette major brother shug dad sandy any news woukd be good also anybody in womens aid 1990 thanks x
The 80s would be when they started moving folk from Blackhill. Given some of the folk who moved there, it is not a surprise how bad it became. (Though according to my mates who moved there, it was still better than Blackhill.) I really like watching these old videos - they are great glimpses of history. They should be shown to the precious, entitled weans we have now, though I doubt they would have any more appreciation for what they get for doing less than nothing.
I left a slum in Maryhill in 1970 for the comparative luxury of a house in Drummore Road. For personal reasons we had to move up the Hill in 1975. Whilst agreeing that Drumchapel saw a major decline in many aspects from the late 80’s onwards, I am proud to say that Drumchapel is where I am from. It saddens me greatly that the place I loved growing up has declined to the degree it has, evidenced to a large degree by the deplorable state of the once vibrant hub of the community, the Supey. 🥲🥲