Old World Glasgow, Scotland: 1860-1899 Oldest Known Photographs, Celtic / Roman Ruins & Architecture
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- Howdy ya’ll.
Let’s get back into the Old World Series of videos where we will focus on the oldest known photographs of specific cities throughout history.
Today, we will focus exclusively on Glasgow, Scotland. I’ve assembled for your viewing pleasure the oldest known photographs of Glasgow that I could find. We will address the images while discussing the history of Glasgow, according to the officially recognized timeline.
We will hopefully find some anomalies and other cool inconsistencies which we can point out, but either way, it’s quite breathtaking to walk through Glasgow in the mid 1800s.
All these photographs and images are dated to before the year 1900, with a majority dated to 1877 or earlier. Enjoy the collection - and leave your thoughts down below!
Resources for further reading;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow
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No waayyyy! Jarid im a huge fan and i live in glasgow! Thanks for pronouncing it correctly 😂and thanks for shining a light on my amazing city 💗 most of the buildings you see in the photos were all torn down in the 1960s and 70s to “cleanse” the city- it was known to contain the worst slums in Europe, but they didnt just take the slums. The city council destroyed pretty much everything, including a Tudor 1500’s village in the east of the centre, near the brewery and 1st site of the uni. And theyre still at it to this day. Historic buildings will mysteriously catch fire- usually in the places where there is student accommodation being built…
Thanks so much for this. I’m going to go down under the city in the spring- you can actually get under the main station- they do tours. It’s always worth an explore to anyone who comes to visit!
I live here too. The story about the 2 Rotunda buildings with the tunnel under the Clyde never rung true to me, very sus. 👍😁
and the WEF is trying to tear down the life style we have and replace it with a feudal system again ..
Aye me too u can get under the city in Duke St, on TH-cam somewhere
Progressive means, tear everything down. Sad
Awerite pal.......... ✋😁
ive been to scotland 4times and was just blown away by the architecture in glasgow stirling and edinburgh
U should visit St Andrews next time you're back also Perth 👍
They told us at school the tobacco barons built the city
All Cities in Scotland have amazing Architecture. 🏴
@@pmac2597 never herd a teacher in my School in Glasgow ever say that n first time i have herd this
@@martinkerr2721 first time u heard this ? U been living in a cave or something
Coming from Glasgow it is great to see a glimpse of the past. I can vaguely remember some of the old tenements before the old Glasgow corporation destroyed them and built the modern eyesores that we see in the city today. That being said if you walk around Glasgow City centre today there are still fantastic examples of Edwardian, Georgian and Victoria architecture.
I’m from Glasgow and this is the best history lesson I’ve ever had. I’m 66. Thanks.
Govan boy here, I work in the city every day and it's sad to see the buildings that are falling into disrepair. Also my interest in the churches built in Glasgow, so many seem to have been built from 1860 - 1890 according to the official narrative. Dozens of near identical gothic style churches all spring up within a 30 year period. Love the videos
never thought of that when you see aw they churches built the same mate ,
gothic architecture is stunning, i wish we had more, tbh. The P I. ist still there, but not much else is recognisable now. The people were the best in Govan!
No wonder, you vote for LGBT propaganda instead of maintaining the actually good, meaningful things about the city. Glasgow seems to be full of Communists, homos and foreigners, and Glaswegians bring it on themselves.
I know I went home to Glasgow after being away for a wee while and was shocked to see a lot of the old buildings demolished in the city centre . I once went for an interview at timpsons shoe shop on Argyle st and had a look upstairs on the top flat there was an old tiny Victorian like theatre, it was in ruins but impressive, think they demolished that too 😢
AEWAR explains what they did, using modern building techniques to copy old styles, and making many buildings rapidly during that period...to cover-up the REAL old buildings perhaps?
My paternal 3x great grandfather came to Glasgow from Argyle in the early 1800s - fabulous to learn about what he came to.
On my maternal side, all my great grandparents came from Co Tyrone & Co Donegal to stay in roman catholic Irish enclaves. ❤ Glasgow!
Thank you
Let me express my deepest thanks, as a Glaswegian, for your video and your ability to pronounce the name of my great city.
I'm from Glasgow but haven't lived there since 1981. It's amazing to see old footage. My Gran was born in 1894. She would have been around 3 to 5 years depending on when the photos were taken.
Your no fae glesga then ya bam away ye go before a rattle ye les
@@keepitrandom5066Can you say that in English please, Tongs yah bas. 🤣🤣🤣🫣
A think a remembur yur Gran - She never took ur turn to dae the stair - Clarty Clara they used tae call hur
@@williamf4544🤣🤣🤣 a way we yae... Yer aff yer heed...
Very cool to see the city of my Granny's birthplace! She came to America as the 1st WWII bride off the trains in Tampa Florida! I wish I could find the newspaper article. She was featured on the front page of the Tampa Tribune. Thanks for sharing! ❤️🏴
You should visit Glasgow sometime you would love it 🏴🏴🏴
@@TheJonjay777 I'd love to! I still have family there I hear from now & then too!
Interesting was Alot of that going to America and my fam- tree fled towards Canada etc etc Some came from Ireland To Glasgow Catholic And Protestant which is a Big deal to us lot Sadly Very Green '&' blue...
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Nothing like a Glaswegian Granny eh, bet nobody messed with her haha.
@@starofdavid9919 nope! LOL she used to love to get the heavy breather calls back in the day, she'd get them to hang up quicker that shite through a goose! 😂🤣 I am very much like her, not as mean unless necessary, & my mother would get so mad & say "you're just like my mother!" 😆😂🤣 Unfortunately she left this world too soon for me. I was 18 when she passed, I'm now 49.
You're the man Jared, thank you for all your work as always.
I was born and raised in Glasgow and over the years since the mid 1980's have had a love and fascination of my city,s architecture, as the years of soot and grime were cleaned off of the buildings the skill of the stonemasons were once again on view to anyone who would stop and take the time to look and see how beautifully constructed these buildings are, the slum clearances of the 1950/60s removed much of the old tenements and a lot of the population were moved to the outer areas of the city but the city centre buildings remained in use
Hi Jarid, I grew up in the notorious slum called the Gorbals in the seventies, the idea of abject poverty and filth was nothing more than a middle class fiction, most familys had working parents and brought their children up to be decent people, even when it was ravaged by heroen this only affected a small group of people, thanks for this, cheers
What? Why are you lying? The Gorbals was an absolute slum, dangerous as hell and filthy too, most didnt work and those that did moved out.
The Gorbals in 70s was the new Gorbals not the old slum Gorbals...
😀 I was born in Rottenrow in 1952 - when my parents lived in Hospital Street, Gorbals. Moved to Craigbank a couple of years later.
Thank's for this great video of Glasgow, I was born in Glasgow in 1964 and grew up in the old tenements with great memories, would not change it for anything, Glasgow people are unique down to earth people.👍♥️
Hi Im from Glasgow born & bred, thanks for sharing this info
A lot of my family lived in glasgow stirling and edinburgh, after being "relocated" from Argyl, Dumfries, Inverness, and Sutherland. I felt very at home in Edinburgh, whilst on a vacation last October. I really enjoy your channel. Peace
Jarid is one of my favorite old world researchers. Keep it up bro!
Really beautifully researched video - I've lived in Glasgow all my life and learned loads! Thanks for sharing :)
You should look at Dundee, Scotland's oldest city. Lost of spicy stuff to be found there.
Lived in Scotland recently Edinburgh is an impressive old world city and some amazing antiquetech buildings and castles. Definitely needs your expertise and your eyes on it.
I’m from Glasgow and there is something magical about Edinburgh, have you read the work of Comyns Beaumont?
@@Rajamak no fella I was at the Edinburgh comedy festival for a couple of days was amazed by it all. I was living in darvel which has a volcano. I have other theories in that 🤣
Edinburgh the true biblical Jerusalem?
The people with their wash hanging out the window did not construct those masonry structures.
think you have a hold of something there, the 10 lost tribes, ancient Irish scriptures, tartaria, true christianity, the Thousand Year Millennial reign up until 1812 the reset the rumors of War, the short season of deception we are in is all related.
Fascinating. Thomas Annan was commissioned to photograph the slums by John Carrick, then the City Architect. Carrick's plans for the city ultimately led to the erasing of much of 17th century and also medieval Glasgow. Carrick amongst others admired the street widening schemes of Paris, which helped provide easier surveillance and control over the working class. Charles Marville (a photographer) was commissioned to photograph the 'slums' of Paris. Seems like these photographers were important characters in the reset! I'm writing my dissertation on Lost architecture in Scotland and came across the 17th Century Dundee vaults. The shoreline after a 'tidal wave' had hit Dundee, was raised, basically moving the then ground level structures below ground. At the time they were not vaults, only gaining that title after being moved! And a tidal wave in Dundee, must be science fiction hahaha. Also look up Trinity College, which was destroyed to clear way for Waverly train station. Anyone in Dundee?
Thank you for your work and all the videos! 👍✌️
Thanks, Jarid! Glasgow is such a beautiful old city. Definitely older than they said.
Much love! 🤗❤️❤️❤️🙏
Iam glasweigan born & breed one of the best videos I've across ...most of the buildings shown here are still standing in great condition 👏
Jared, just want you to know what excellent and superb work you are doing. You are appreciated and what you share matters greatly! I'm so glad I found your channel, you are A++++! 😁😁😁❤❤❤
Some of the pictures are insane. I love looking at some parts of the city today because you can see small pieces of the history just hidden down some alley way or behind a billboard. Like one of those old advertisements that are painted on the side of a building, sometimes if you look at entire streets in the right way you can see the history. But walking through the Argyll Arcade is the best because that's just like stepping back in time and it's gorgeous.
My great great grandfather Daniel McCormick migrated from Ballycastle Co Antrim to Glasgow in the late 1870s when he was a very young man. The Glasgow in the film is the one he would have made his new home. It must have been hard for Dan ,being a Catholic Irish immigrant was no picnic in those days .
I was born in the 80's as a forth generation Irish Catholic. I'm no longer catholic but I'm proud of being Irish.
That’s one of the biggest perpetuated myths peddled in Scotland, there was actually no Irish immigration to Scotland Neil , at that time Ireland was probably the most reluctant member of the UK, the Irish quite simply move from one part of the UK to another they never Emigrated to another country! Immigration and immigrants are synonymous with something bad so it has always suited a bigoted narrative in some sections of Scotlands community to reinforce the immigrant ( outsider) card !
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Mc cormick doesn’t sound very scottish are you sure your not a potato famine irishman
Who slaved on out waterworks then in true cathedral style decides to try and breed out the real population of the city
Even today
@@barrypritchard6992 What an irony Barry, the McCormick’s are a sept of the Scottish Buchanan Clan, where as the Pritchards were an old Welsh family whom many settled in Ireland during the plantations, the records show they were very numerous in Ulster, but during the Irish famine many of them came to Scotland to seek refuge, I was a member of the Queensland Genealogy Society in Queensland Australia for many years and remain interested in it, what happened during the famine was the Irish in the south went to Liverpool, and the Irish in the North came mostly to the west of Scotland, I’m kind of guessing with Pritchard’s being so numerous in Ulster ( that’s were my family name originated from) it’s highly likely were that’s your folks came from Ireland during the famine and not directly from Wales, over 25% of the Irish that came to Scotland were Protestant and the majority of these bore Scottish Borders family names, if you were interested in family history you should join Scotlands People, but it’s very addictive I must warn you,but at the end of the day we’re all Jock Tamsons bairns and of course Proudly Scottish !
Glaswegian here. Thanks for the history summary. If I can add a few bits of local knowledge. St Mungo is usually pronounced with the u as in gun. Re gas, I have never heard of natural gas pockets under Glasow itself, though its possible. Households usually used coal for heating fires and cooking. There was a lot of coal mines in central scotland, and iron ore, which, with its western coastal position giving access to America, India, Australia, etc caused huge industrial city growth in 19th century. Shipbuilding was big. The gas lighting you see in the photos was developed at that time. The gas was produced by burning coal and stored in massive metal circular tanks like the one in the distance in one of the photos of the cathedral. Lighting is electric now, but household gas for heating and cooking is nowadays from natural gas, mostly from under the north sea to the east of Scotland.
Photos by Annan were to provide a record of poor condition property ( particularly near the Cathedral ) before demolition, but also shows other buildings that are still around like the Cathedral itself, the Tolbooth tower, the University, and many of the houses.( many externally cleaned of grime around 1970's to reveal beautiful stonework) BTW Trolley buses, trams and Motor buses were around at the same time/ overlapped time periods( they didnt all have wires), and photographers often took photos very early morning before most people were up, hence minimum traffic and less smoke in the photos. As to flooding, the River Clyde was originally quite wide and shallow, that's why the original village was uphill nearer the Cathedral, and mainly just fishermen down by the river. As the town grew, and ships got bigger, the river was dredged and stone quays enabled bigger ships to come up to the city. Doing this probably is why flooding is rare now. The other digging would be for building foundations and things like railways, roads (and later motorway and expressway) plus the subway ( underground railway )and lots more bridges. Glasgow cleared a lot of old housing, replaced at the time with stuff that often didnt wear well, but much survived and some better stuff now like new gorbals area where local input helped ! As for many lunatic asylums, thats hype to denegrate Glasgow. A number of regular hospitals were established or extended as the city grew, and probably initially had to deal with mental and special needs as well as physical ilness/ injuries,, but the same period saw a few mental institutions and also childrens homes , workhouses, etc. The Royal infirmary is still there ( much extended) and has the busiest emergency department around !!
Busier than the new southern general?
Not sure, its grown massively lately. Thankfully I've not had to make use of the facilities of either lately !!!
This was great! Very well put together video. Glasgow girl here
So much missed. The fact that Glaschu was a tiny salmon fishing village on the Clyde. Or High Street and its believed ancient origins. That in fact Glasgow is a collection of ancient villages, particularly Govan and Partick. Govan was Ovania to the Romans and was an ancient fording point. The antonine wall didn't split Pictish from Celtic tribes. You missed the Viking battle at Alt Clut shaping Govan as a power centre. You also failed to mention the context of Thomas Annan's work, to capture the abject poverty in a ruined city. You miss the highland clearances fuelling the population growth. Glasgow cathedral wasn't built on a roman site, it was on an ancient Iron age site. You didn't mention the dredging of the river which fundamentally made the city, or the Caribbean resource exploitation that provided the wealth.
Mate you hit the nail on the head I was thinking much the same things there
get a grip ya plonkers
You can only cover so much in a 20 minute video though
This was a 20-odd minute video of Glasgow. Just how much information can you possibly get in on such a short period of time, this vodeo was to educate people on some history of Glasgow, as far as i am concerned this was a fantastic little trip down memory lane, big thanks to whoever it was decided to educate as many people as possible by putting this little video up on TH-cam Massive big high five 👋 to them.
I hear you. I was going to write pretty much the same thing. It would have bern good to mention the leper colony in the gorbals which was its own village. The growth of the west end. The education of Glasgow Uni.
Lol I want a 3 hour long video.
Excellent presentation - well done Jarid.
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The first racist murd conviction was in 1905 pashal Liffey a poc graped and murd 63 year old ,mary welsh a white female,pashal got hung in duke street
Great video I'm glaswegian these are some of the best photos and pictures I've seen
Fantastic! These pictures show the Glasgow that my great-Grandmother was born into in 1891. The pictures being earlier even than that made me feel connected to my forebears going back to the 1840's. A warm feeling.
At 8:00 there is clear evidence of mudflood and again at 14:08 with the cathedral, but at 8:00 it can be clearly seen with the outline of the building removed showing the old original part behind, with the doorway or window popping out of the ground.
The steps at 8:54 show signs of exceptional wear and tear, worn down over generations of use and I used to live in a house dated from 1680 which had some old steps worn in the same manner, it takes a long time, so the mudflood that necessitated those stairs must have occurred a long time prior, far earlier than the flooding narrative.
I have long believed that there was some kind of cataclysm around the 1400-1500, which almost ties in with the supposed plagues from the 1350s onwards.
As to the stone masonry of the buildings, we're told that many of the buildings in Scotland are built of stone, especially granite, yet another YTuber, Rebel Without A Pause, has demonstrated that many of these "stone" buildings have, in fact, red brick skeletons with stone tiles placed over to give the appearance of stone buildings, which has also been shown by Jaxdreaming, when she visited Salisbury Cathedral she discovered they were renovating a part and underneath the stone facade a red brick layer could be seen.
In my research on star formations (forts) I have discovered it would appear that much of this realm was constructed from red brick, then tiles were placed over the top, giving the appearance of granite, limestone or sandstone buildings.
He doesn't even show the cathedral at the 8.00 minute mark he only mentions in it his narration.
Amazing the conclusions people jumped to with a lack lustre comprehension level.
Thank you for your work sir and as Iona said the first vid i have seen where it is spoken correctly! Much respect for your research brother! All my family moved to glasgow from Isle of harris and my great aunt (still alive at 86) remembers the gas lamps and the community spirit in the poor places.
Well done I’m from Glasgow enjoyed this very much
After enjoying this video, I just watched a new video on the. Mind Unveiled TH-cam channel. It is about VERY early photography and photoshop. 🤯🤯🤯. It is very well done and extremely enlightening!
its where im from , love youre videos man , keep posting
Congrats on 50k subs Jarid, you really did earn it, your content is filled with wonderful images and you present them with such an open mind, most of all i really appreciate how humble you are, and i hope you never change commentators, God bless for the future brother.
Great photos it was interesting to see the map showing the initial city starting at the Trongate with little else. Spending my childhood in the streets and parks of Kelvinbridge and Kelvingrove well to the west, which then was probably no mans land. So much to learn from visions of the past. Thanks Rmb
Hiya. What a beautiful rendition to History. You gave it justice sir. from UK 🇬🇧👍👍. Thank you.
Well done.
Amazing photos of a bygone era.
The architecture and Antiqui'techture is stunning.
And a familiar narrative that falls apart in the first paragraph...typical.
Par for the preponderance of golf course evidences.
Much Love to you and yours wherever you are on the plane.
Hi Jarid, this was excellent, an american teaching glaswegians their history, brilliant! Cheers,
One of the few times suggestions on my home feed is good. Thank you for what you do. Some of us are really interested in our history
One of my fave jokes.
Glasgow dentist attending to patient: Comfy?
Patient: Govan!
Nice work! Thanks for sharing!
Do you have a discord?
Fab video. Really enjoyed this. It popped up on my recommendations, for some reason. Subscribed. Love the narration!
One wee thing you overlooked was the beginnings of a police force in Glasgow in the 1760s. The city was not permitted by Westminster to pay for a police force from taxes until about 1800, but they already had figured out patrols, emergency callouts and even detectives.
Cool City and People. 😎 🇬🇧
thank you for (a) pronouncing Glasgow properly and (b) pointing out that it is not a vast filthy slum filled with violent drunks. Much of that stereotype arose in the late 19th century when the population of some poorer parts of the city like Govan shot up by a multiple of TEN in a single decade. People were packed in like sardines without proper sanitation, in buildings that landlords, by now often hereditary, saw no reason to maintain.
It was still so crowded that in the First World War, landlords had no hesitation in racking rents ever higher (where men building warships could pay) and evicting families where the man was off in the army, if his pay - or the widow’s pension - did not arrive in a timely way. This caused a fightback from the women of the city, who banded together, and de-trousered the bailiffs when they arrived to evict families. Eventually it got a change in the law.
I have read in a couple books that the mud flood happened in the year 1755 and was the Lisbon earthquake, the first book was very religious and said the Lisbon earthquake was the rapture of Jesus and the other book was a Freemason book, that just mentioned the Lisbon earthquake but didn't say much about it!
I found an old leather bound book in a skip at the back of a French monastery that was being 'renovated'. The book is titled 'Jesus Christ', and was written by a monk. In it he claims that Jesus was born in the year 747 and was crucified in the year 781. If you think about it, the year zero for Jesus birth can only have been invented many years later, so there must have been a date system running when he was born.
My own personal view is that the dating system never was changed. The thousand year reign of Christ would have ended in the mid-late 1700's. This ties in with your Lisbon earthquake scenario.
I have found other French records (many in government archives) which show that during the time of the French 'revolution' (which means 'to go around'), towns were systematically emptied out of all old books which were burnt. There were serious consequences for anyone that did not hand their books in. 'New' history books were then written, by scholars, without any reference to the past.
I have come to the conclusion that the entirety of our history has been fabricated in the years following the completion of Jesus reign, where the wheat was protected from the tares. The tares (Devils children) now rule, as the Bible tells us.
@@victorian4454 this is so interesting, I've seen the videos that this could have been the rain of Christ and just put it to the back of my mind, lately I have been thinking that the tartars may have been the ones taking over the world. And the maps are showing us the land that they've taken over. America was the old world, I've watched a lot of people doing videos on that and that Egypt was found in America Arizona (Grand Canyon) I've read someone's web page where it said that America was Ethiopia. And that the king was prester John and the war between the tartars and prester John. In one article I read on prester John mentions baby Jesus but not a lot about him. I will have to do a lot more reading on this subject. We're not there yet but I think we're very close!
After the 1000 year reign Satan must be let loose for a season..a wonder how long a season is..?
@@kemcloudking4919 my guess is that would be 250 years if there are 4 seasons, and supposedly this has been the plan since 1776 so about four more years of this kind of shit, just a guess though!
@@dollybrooks3112 the devil owns Tavistock and Hollywood but in the bible a day is a thousand years. Mary reappeared many years ago to call for peace.
J a r i d, thank you for sharing this neat story about Glasgow. I have some family that move from from there to the state of Kansas. Thanks for everything and enjoyed the tour.
Looks beautiful and rich in history. Would like to visit. So darn clean. Thank you.
Not now it’s not , the city fathers have really let things slide
You wouldn't believe how disgusting and filthy the city has become, its an absolute embarrassment.
Another awesome video dude 😎💪
Great to see all these photos of the city I was born and bred in and still here. The architecture nowadays is nowhere near as good as these photos the city is falling apart great video 👍
I just wanna say, thanks for pronouncing this correctly.
Lived in Glasgow until I was 30 and learned plenty in this video.
Just discovered your channel gona check out more 100%
I am Glaswegian and that was fascinating! Just to learn we had the plague 5 times 🤣 but your video did give me sense of pride! I recognise lots of those pictures! I’ve always thought of my self as Glasgow personified, consider myself “ah bit of a patter merchant!“ 🤣 will share this that was good content I look forward to looking at some more 👍🏼🍀
Loved this video. I like how you are one of the very few Americans that know how to actually say Glasgow, not by saying "Glass-cow" lol.
On the same latitude as Moss-cow . You seldom hear Weegies call it Glesga .
@@laurencesmith2199 how?.., l call it glazga .
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The Newton Mearns pronunciation , lol .
Us Lumpen Paisleytariat say Glesga .......and Scoatlin .
@@laurencesmith2199 yes .( or Yaaaaaassss) .
@@laurencesmith2199you'd here me say it all the time. Ex pat 20 plus years, it's Glesga👍😁.
Absolutely brilliant pictures Jared, being from Glasgow they are even more meaningful to me, I actually thought how cool would it be if they were colourised ….. then thought most of them would pretty much still look black and white 😊
I remember what a revelation it was to us when they started sandblasting buildings in the city centre in the 1980s. Who knew the City Chambers was white?! We literally had no idea a lot of the buildings were red sandstone, let alone some being that honey-colour. As a child I honestly thought everythjng was built out of black stone.
@@eh1702 I served my time as an apprentice carpenter in Govan renovating the old tenements , we had the stone masons and sandblaster working for us, it was brilliant like you said ,if a stone block had perished, instead of replacing it, they would render it then paint white lines to match the existing joints, then put thin coach line tape the same thickness as the existing joints, then paint it the same colour as the sandstone but before the paint dried they would flick sand ( the same colour as existing) onto the wet paint , when they peeled off the coach line tape the white joint would just flow through and the sand would glisten making it look like real sandstone, unfortunately a lot of really beautifully architectural buildings got bulldozed though !
Thank you, Jarid.
I had always been told Glasgow of that era was nothing but squalid 'slums'. It looks quite imperious to me!
Glasgow was the second city of Empire, remember. It has always had, alongside the slums and squalor, a thrusting middle class.
Nowadays in Glasgow all you see is these great buildings mysteriously going on fire, and before you know it, student flats have appeared.
💙thanks Jarid🌷🐾🐾
Not one building under construction in any of these old images
You pronounce Glasgow perfectly x
" History is everything, if we don't know it we know nothing. " td
Some things I noticed: streets look empty, no smoke coming out of chimneys (which would of been essential), no weeds/ plants growing in the cracks of masonry/ sidewalks/ streets. These pictures are bizarre.
Your right , the weeds would have been on every nook and cranny ,
The fires wouldn't have been lit during the day , and the wind kept it from being smokey most of the time .
@@laurencesmith2199 hi , please why would the fires not be lit in the day time ? I know many would be out working, but not all , what it lack of money for fuel?
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That's definitely a part of it , coal wasn't exactly cheap and you can't build a small fire . He'd be at work , the kids at school and she'd be working her arse off so no need for a fire . Unemployment has never been huge in Glasgow , that's why it got that size and no welfare state at the time .
I'm 70 and remember the gas public lighting and horse and cart deliveries , coal fires were being replaced by gas from the 50's and electric from the 60's , but many still had coal .
Cheers Chris .
Hi I am 78 and remember gas lighters going around , on a holiday in Glasgow we saw a replica of a slum in those big buildings in a museum , we couldn’t believe how cramped and tiny it was , ,what awful lives they led , unrelenting work , in the cold and damp ,but isn’t it fascinating learning all these new facts about our history timelines , my treat of the week , is watching Jon Levi video on Sunday nights , the ones he does on Salt Lake City and the Mormon temples are amazing ,
At 17.48 I thought of the song 'wha saw the 42nd'. Good video. A lot of the buildings in the photos from the victorian era are still there or where 5 years ago.
It is truly beautiful city
Well pronounced Jarid 👍
Thanks Jarid. Great video. I guess what caught my eye was the 3 metal ball’s hanging off the wrought iron railing attached to the building towards the end and beginning. First time I’ve seen that and I researched lots of old world tech. That got me curious what that served.
I thought it was a pawn shop...not to say its not adapted from something else tho
They are the sign for pawnbrokers. Still used today.
Pawnshop, I think that is hight st
Not antiquitech, but just a sign proclaiming it as a Pawnbrokers.
Why 3 balls? No idea!
Mercury
Glaswegian and historian here - I grew up in Gorbals in 1950s. Thanks for all for your work to share the early history. St Mungo is pronounced mUNGo here not MOONgo. These early photographs don’t show very many people, probably because it took several minutes to capture early photos moving people would show as blurs. I guess they’re taken early morning before folks are up and about. The city is famous for shipbuilding and tobacco trade in 19th century. Much redevelopment became necessary by the 1960s because of extreme overcrowding and poverty - unfortunately moving masses of the population into high rise homes broke up many close knit communities and the ugly modern architecture was not a success. When I go back these days the place I grew up in is mostly gone. Although I did learn to read at the McNeil Street library - thanks to Andrew Carnegie - which is still there.
Was thinking the same thing the streets looked awfy quite
Lol only two things that hurt my ears. One was moongo, the other was molendinar. But it's no biggie. The hutchie flats in 70s were a huge white elephant. The idea of displacing so many folk to rebuild is a stop gap solution. You need to build new and quick before you can demolish. Never a good plan.
my home town, thanks for this .
Thank you for pronouncing Glasgow properly 💚🏴
I enjoyed this, and learned some things.
Love it ❤️
Good listen mate. Well done.
nice video. I noticed a guy or kid hanging out on those side street photos. almost as if they were the guards of that street. People had to speak to them before interacting with people from that street. Or i could be overthinking . :)
I was born and live in Glasgow and must say I am impressed at your research and the 'angle of approach' you took for this video.
Especially for an Ammurrican.
The clock tower in the 2nd picture is on my street today it stands itself instead of part of the building it once was. That said my home is over a 100 yrs old built in 1886.
12:58 shows a radio tower or is it free energy? Gone in 14:38 image of the same building.
All the photos appear to be touched up, see Mind Unveiled recent video on photography 😉👍
All steet photos seem to have just been cleaned, and I felt I was looking at Pompey, a ghost town that had been covered in mud. 🤔
This was very informative,
I thought I knew my stuff about Glasgow but you taught me some things I did not know.
I personally think it was the most important and amazing city in the world,
We literally invited and discovered everything in this city.
The pleg says old meg love them old pics thanks for taking the time
Thank you for pronouncing it correctly!
Super video thanks Jared, I’ve visited Edinburgh and thought it was like Hogwarts, the architecture is phenomenal
I was left wondering how it was built given that we are led to believe the Scots lived in stone huts on the moorlands and only the Lairds lived in castles. A lot of the buildings look like they were built by the same castle builders, it’s not making sense in my head. My ancestry is Scottish and your pictures have left me with more questions than answers as to my own Scottish heritage history lol.
The cotton and sugar trade he mentioned, that was our involvement in the slave trade and a lot of the big fancy structures were built from the proceeds.
Probably because most Scots didn't live in stone huts on the moorlands. You're thinking of some romantic Highland fantasy. Scots were industrialised city dwellers before most people,. As we more or less started the Industrial Revolution. Then Empire,Tobacco, Slaves, Textiles added to the wealth and led to industrialisation and town life. Nothing unusual.
Well, Edinburgh is like Hogwarts because Edinburgh is one of the inspirations for Hogwarts.
Glasgow was a big industrial city. Plenty stone and slate in parts of Scotland. Plenty of ordinary houses all over Scotland were built from stone.
@@pingupenguin2474 in Glasgow all the blonde stone was pre 1900 and the red was after 1900
my city! What a place
Just imagine all the tenements being built from 1870 to 1906 this was building work on a big scale
Really enjoyable video
appreciared the vid.
Thank you for pronouncing Glasgow properly.
Nice narrative. 😉
Excellent video. I live in Scotland and love the architecture in Glasgow city centre. Some of it is awe-inspiring inspiringly beautiful. I have my doubts that these were actually built in the 1800s. 😍
“ I have my doubts that these were actually built in the 1800s. “ 🤔 I can’t figure out what that means!
@@eh1702 I think he refers to the theory of Tartaria and the mud flood. There’s a reference here to the city being dug out. This theory attempts to explain the amazing similarity in architecture around the world and that it was all built much earlier than we’re told.
@@uselesseater1584 Good god, what utter Rubbish. This is a medieval-peasant, at least pre-Enlightenment, concept of archaeology. 1. Glasgow has been drawn and painted for centuries, and you can see areas that were countryside begun to be built up into what is now city-centre. It’s also reflected in many placenames. 2. The Clyde is strongly tidal right into the present city centre. It has been dredged for the last couple of centuries making it much narrower in some places, and deeper. That also leaves relatively flat areas that have things underfoot like old sunken boats covered in a few layers of silt. That almost immediately got built on without thought as to how the narrowing increased the power of the current. And it left no room for the kind of weather events that even then came along routinely every decade or two. As well, what used to be small sandbars and islands were ruthlessly obliterated for shipping access, and archaeology was sometimes found in that process. A couple of generations of all-out industrial dredging without thought to what happens when a spring tide combines with a strong westerly and a ton of rain coming down from the Lanarkshire hills - THAT was the “mud flood”. Ecological thoughtlessness. I have seen “crowds” of standing waves taller than a person processing slowly upriver at the city centre, as an incoming tide meets a big dump of rain from the hills. In response a few years ago, a whole program of flood mitigation to slow the spate from the Lanarkshire hills was put in place in a couple of feeder rivers.
There is normal archaeology around the Clyde: it was a trade route since the megalithic, between very fertile “breadbasket” areas of lowland Scotland and the “highway” of the Atlantic coasts of all Britain and Ireland. It also considerably shortened the journey from coast to coast. Downstream is the “rock/fortification of the Britons” Dumbarton Rock, a natural gatehouse of the Clyde, still impressive despite being quarried away, and up and down the river, finds of small neolithic canoes dug and dredged out of the mud at various points. You have at Govan old parish church (right at the confluence of the Clyde and Kelvin) the Viking “hogback” gravestones and pagan or secular and quasi-Christian ones that would undoubtedly be called Pictish if they were further east. (Including a “sun stone” composed of four snakes in a whirl) And a unique-in-Scotland big stone casket thought to have been for the Brittonic king Constantine, possibly part of a failed project to make a saint of him. Right next door was a neolithic mound used as a “moot hill” in medieval times that the Victorians first turned into a chemical dump and then flattened. It then became a car park and is now being built over by a block of flats. This was the “sacred” side of the river. Opposite on the north, Partick side was said to have been the secular centre of princely power. It was the elevation of Mungo to a saint that was instrumental in moving the centre of power and trade a mile or so upriver to where the Cathedral and Provans Lordship are, and the original area of Glasgow University. Yes, there is history, yes, some of it has literally come out of the mud. But the idea of some antediluvian city is ridiculous. For one thing, Scotland couldn’t support the population for settlements of more than a couple of thousand people - right up to medieval times.
Mince utter mince !
Multiple cities throughout the world are based on the Glasgow grid system of building the city centre area
Hence so many movies are based there pretending to be in the USA or elsewhere
This shit really blows my mind and puts a whole new spin on alot of the old stories my grandfather told me.
One that really makes me wonder is about the underground shooting range/training grounds in the city centre somewhere.
He was in the army and mentioned something along those lines or that nd so much more that has me wondering now.
hi Jarid i am Born and bread in Glasga , Glasgow , do you know what a close is ? its an entrance to a building with 6 to 8 flats with room n kitchen , now a days the closes or mostly gone but not all my fathers house ,my mother has now pasted stay in a close , the Black death nearly destroyed our city as you have said there are building still there from 14,000's TBH glad you said Glasgow correctly cheers pal 👍 's highland clearances ,their destination was USA Also the invention that have came from Scottish ppl is immense also it's a great city to live in ps was also a Scot how founded the Bank of England ,it was good to hear you take an interest in my City thanks again mate ps oldest house in Glasgow Built in 1471, Provand's Lordship remember getting taken to see it in primary 6
Nice 👍 work
Glaz-Go - well done on the pronunciation of Glasgow.
Glas Go
@@phoenixrising5088 lol we say Glaz-go or Glesga (Glez-ga)
GREAT VIDEO MATE , IM FROM GLASGOW AND THE ARCHITECTURE NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE ME !!! :) SO MANY ODD BALL BUILDINGS AND NOT JUST GLASGOW BUT ALL OVER SCOTLAND :)
Tah for covering my birth city, forgot about the gas deposits, but may I recommend a video, its a random walk in video of what is bellow central station, before the station was built, the terminus was on the southside of the clyde at Bridge St. There was a tightly built residential area, they just built on top of it to create the station, old masonry, tight staircases. Will add a link to some videos that cover the history of the area.
Only new info I got in this wonderfully presented for an American (i assume) is the origin of the glasgow fare, which is not continued to this day, only few from the younger generations have the passed on knowledge (was told when I had a paper round by one elderly customer whe I was a teen. The map you had of Whiteinch as an island, and a river that goes north to south, east from the town, I want to find out more about that. Thanks also for being the first American to pronounce glasgow as glas-go, everyone else says glass-gow like cow. Thanks.. or tah... or cheers bud
Well done and thank you , ,as for the critics, you cant possibly cram in every single fact in 20 minutes, those who pointed out the omissions and oversights,why not make your own versionsincluding your knowledge, l, for one, would be glad to watch it
What has happened to these beautiful buildings in Glasgow has been criminal, they have been replaced by soulless corporate modern architecture.
I agree. The book Lost Glasgow by Carol Foreman shows a lot of what was destroyed.