Aye my wee granny loved the trams she would always talk fondly of them, of course they were way before my time being born in 79 but i did visit the old tranway on pollokshaws rd when i was a kid.
2:20 I've Used To Love Going To The City Of Glasgow In Scotland In The United Kingdom Three Times Between 2014 And 2015 And 2017 And It Was Super Awesome And It Was Bigger Than Washington DC In The United States Of America. Thanks Mate. X
3:49 Those iron concertina doors on the underground used to terrify me as a wee child. I had an uncle who worked a tower crane on the docks; another was a cabinet-maker on the Queen Mary. Together they once stole a tram in the city centre to get home to the Gorbals 🙄. I remember the tram seats had hinged backs so they could lean the other way; at the end of a route the tram didn’t turn round, but its front became its back end. Great fun flipping them all! Also putting pennies on the tram tracks... and watching when the tram driver had to get the very long pole off the side of the tram to reconnect the electric dolly to the overhead wires.
Excellent Alex, gave the film a thumbs up but wish i could give it 10 out of 10. Being a Pollok boy loved the Parkhouse road and Nitshill road shots with the green hill in the distance that became South Nitshill.
Had this film for years and waited all this time to share it. Glad you enjoyed it. Think I may reuse the Parkhouse/Nitshill section in a wee video I am putting together from my own personal films captured in 2009.
I lived in Yoker latterly Partick and knew my local area reasonably well, but the 63 Auchenshuggle and 64 Dalmuir West referred to places that may as well have been at the other end of the Milky Way for all I knew. I didn't even know we were in the west of the city and north of the river 😳
Was there a tram depot in govan next too the graving docks at stag st, the big sheds are still standing i think they became a council depot but now its an indoor film studio.
I FLED Glasgow back in the 80s, when the Thatcherite Tory dictatorship, inflicted on us by the English, cost me my job, marriage, my home & my kids. I haven't been back.
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If only they had kept this network. Trams are very much back in fashion 2021
Aye my wee granny loved the trams she would always talk fondly of them, of course they were way before my time being born in 79 but i did visit the old tranway on pollokshaws rd when i was a kid.
2:20 I've Used To Love Going To The City Of Glasgow In Scotland In The United Kingdom Three Times Between 2014 And 2015 And 2017 And It Was Super Awesome And It Was Bigger Than Washington DC In The United States Of America. Thanks Mate. X
3:49 Those iron concertina doors on the underground used to terrify me as a wee child. I had an uncle who worked a tower crane on the docks; another was a cabinet-maker on the Queen Mary. Together they once stole a tram in the city centre to get home to the Gorbals 🙄. I remember the tram seats had hinged backs so they could lean the other way; at the end of a route the tram didn’t turn round, but its front became its back end. Great fun flipping them all! Also putting pennies on the tram tracks... and watching when the tram driver had to get the very long pole off the side of the tram to reconnect the electric dolly to the overhead wires.
Great video 🏴
I hadn't realised that trolley buses werearound Glasgow in 1949!
Excellent Alex, gave the film a thumbs up but wish i could give it 10 out of 10. Being a Pollok boy loved the Parkhouse road and Nitshill road shots with the green hill in the distance that became South Nitshill.
Had this film for years and waited all this time to share it. Glad you enjoyed it. Think I may reuse the Parkhouse/Nitshill section in a wee video I am putting together from my own personal films captured in 2009.
@@alexglass Cheers bud, love your stuff.
@@williamdrummond7687 thank you very much
This is Glasgow Gold Alex, well done, I haven't seen a better historical record of the city's architecture, amazing stuff
Yes, there's more in there than meets the eye
Great film...
They were wonderful!
I lived in Yoker latterly Partick and knew my local area reasonably well, but the 63 Auchenshuggle and 64 Dalmuir West referred to places that may as well have been at the other end of the Milky Way for all I knew. I didn't even know we were in the west of the city and north of the river 😳
Was there a tram depot in govan next too the graving docks at stag st, the big sheds are still standing i think they became a council depot but now its an indoor film studio.
I FLED Glasgow back in the 80s, when the Thatcherite Tory dictatorship, inflicted on us by the English, cost me my job, marriage, my home & my kids. I haven't been back.
And how are you doing now? 🙂
@@di7948 Much better than I would have if I'd stayed, poverty-stricken, in my Third World Glasgow suburb!
@@Joe_Peroni I haven't lived in Glasgow for many years but it's a different place now compared to the late 70's when I left
WE DIDNT HAVE ELON MUSK
BUT WE DID USE THE LECCY
Great footage. Who is narrating?
Not sure who it is but if I find out I will let you know