Your comments about attachment are soo accurate.I too feel that way having left Cumbernauld..to settle in Belfast,another Town that has been ridiculed and stigmatised by dogma... for me Cumbernauld had a sort of niave charm thats difficult to describe..yes the town planners imposed a bleakness of architecture, brutalism in concrete and roughcast a missed opportunity to turn a blank canvas into a masterpiece ...( we lived in Torbrex and the flatroofs a conceptual disaster for example) .cost restructions led to cramped housing in a place where open spaces were the unique selling point.. all that potential was squandered ..but Cumbernaulds biggest asset were the people..we had great neighbours and a sense of community.. there was a frontier mentality new beginings for young families, a modern utopia was the concept, but it always remained just out of reach and elusive I think thats why so many people have a powerful sense of attacment IMO... to the town..in the ebd ..yes Cumbernauld is flawed,but it provided a fantastic landscape for exploration and adventure, a safe place for kids and families.. the main flaws were the result of short sightedness and lack of creativity and innovation by the town planners...a real golden opportunity missed... but Cumbernauld people always have a place in their heart for the place
@@martinianpaul yes i thought it was, i was wondering how far down as i see a small holding at the back, i was thinking it might be the hill condorrat was built on in the background, but i am not sure i can't place the cottage. edit i had a look at a map from around the mid sixties there was a little loop for auchenkilns cottages near where baird memorial school was built i think that is the cottage in the background which would make that morar playing fields in the background. stunning stuff thanks again
hi great videos i have watched a few of yours. i have to say i have known of the theory of cumbernaulds place name since i was about 12 and even then i was never convinced. if you imagine the place 1500 years ago are you really going to name it after a couple of the many small streams when there are huge hills and valleys around you? After all streams do run into each other all over the country. So i have a theory on the origins and go easy as it is my own theory but i think the place is named after the wilderness brae hill and the valley of cumbernauld glen and i think it's name is from brythonic welsh and not scots gaelic. My theory is .. "cwm-bryn-allt" the cwm means valley, the bryn means hill and the allt means wooded hillside. I can't help but feel the huge features of the glen and the wooded wilderness brae would be a better reason to name the place than some very small burns. ps i would also add that they say condorrat means also the meeting of rivers and i think both these theories for cumbernauld and condorrat were from the same person, i just can not be convinced on this unfortunetly
Left Cumbernauld when I was 28, and have been away 19 years now, yet I still catch myself nearly saying "Cumbernauld" when anyone asks where I'm from. I don't know if it is peculiar to folk who grew up in Cumbernauld in the 60s, 70s, and 80s (my husband doesn't seem to have the same sense of belonging to where he grew up) but I suspect I will always be "from Cumbernauld". Or maybe I stand alone in my seemingly unbreakable attachment to the town. It's not as if it was some great utopia, goodness knows it had its flaws, but it was almost as if - well if no one else is going to see the best in it and love it, then we surely will. It's our town. ....but that was back then, back when, and now the reasoning is just as hazy and tinted with age as some of this footage. I did enjoy this reel of way back when in the place that seems to be forever in my default settings as "home". (Not that I ventured that far away. I did only go from North Lanarkshire to South Lanarkshire).
these are great video's its amazing what it does to you, i was getting little sparks of images in my head from memory but i just could'nt hold them,as quick as a spark they are gone.most of them seem to be in my dad's old hillman driving about the town centre. god i'm ancient
@@martinianpaul yep i think you've nailed it,i was struggling with it so at 2.25ish you see the a80 then the village then cumbernauld house direction and would that make those houses at 2.31 campsie view? not sure,i had forgot about the seafar garage and was trying to fit it into the bells garage but it just didn't seem right
Great original vid Martin - 1966 was also the same year we moved to the 177 block maisonettes in Stonylee (@5:30) and brings back many memories of place. Worked part time on weekends in newly built Watson Bros garage(@5:10) serving petrol /operating the car wash 1970-72
The start is outside St Mungos Church at the top of the hill leading from Fergusson Road in Seafar, don't know if that hill was their at the time, it's also the entrance to the Town centre now, and known as the "Chippy Hill" (Chippy at the top of it in Town centre) again not sure if that part of the Town centre was built then probably not. The end of the video looks like Mitchison road looking over towards Hume road and the flats which are now gone. Ive seen an old photo of a fire station at Hume road, not sure if it was still in service when this video was shot.
Hi, nice video, Seafar is still a great place to live, with the woods and the playing fields nearby and the town centre just up the hill. You don't appreciate Cumbernauld until you've been away and lived in a cramped city or town that wasn't planned out so well with people in mind. The only place that reminded me of Cumbernauld was Stirling University's campus with its green spaces and nature with the 60s style student accommodation surrounding the main University buildings.
Good to see what it was like when built. Just moved here and some areas are improving (less crime, houses getting work done, council always around cleaning etc) Really quiet and children always out playing.
Is it the film or a wee tear... seems so blurry in this HD world? Just joshing. Great archive of what the bravest newest toon was like back in the 60's. Nice to contrast it and link in with the formal 'staged' C'nauld stuff; even Magnus Magnusson got roped into that! Can't beat the familiar to me footage and the actuality of learning to ride a bike.
Thanks for uploading Martin. I was brought up amongst these images and not too far from where you lived. If I'm not mistaken you had a sister called Joy and a very cheery Mother who had an english accent ? I think she ran a catalogue too, from which my Mum used to order things. I was the Paper Boy in McGregor / Liddel Road and I worked on the Ice Cream Van,Bill's Ices :-) I seem to remember you as a very scholarly kid :-) Anyway thanks again for the upload and the fitting music.
Sweet. Thank you. Great to see so much of Seafar. It looks so new. I was born in 73. My parents lived in Allanfauld Rd from 1964 to 1971 and then Braeface Rd where my mum still is (dad departed for the great garden city in the sky in 2013). Had a wee greet watching it.
Braeface Road! My address was 46b. We moved there when the houses had just been built in 1963. Everything had such a new feel, and there was lots of greenery which I liked. Still, I was a boy of 15 so I was quite adaptable. The town centre was being built in phases, but the early phase suited our needs well enough. I wonder what Braeface Road is like now.
Brilliant stuff. My family moved to Kildrum that year. Seems like most of this was Seafar and "Toonie". Looked really close to the Snakey bridge that led over to Stuart house? Thanks for sharing Martin!
Wow, was that some kids playing?! Now kids today are tracksuit wearing turds hanging about drinking buckie, spray-painting walls and assaulting passers by.
Looked better back then, now it's an utter dumb. Not only the town is run down but what many don't talk about is how much human scum inhabit the town that contribute to the problem.
@@mritchie85 they can say what they want but we were the first generation in our houses in the 70's everything around us was clean and new and it was a 1st class place for a childhood up to say 13 year old,after that age it struggled for my generation there wasn't much else to do but hanging around.not the worst place though
Just now seeing this… it is amazing to have! 😎
I loved living in Cumbernauld. We moved there in the early sixties.
Your comments about attachment are soo accurate.I too feel that way having left Cumbernauld..to settle in Belfast,another Town that has been ridiculed and stigmatised by dogma... for me Cumbernauld had a sort of niave charm thats difficult to describe..yes the town planners imposed a bleakness of architecture, brutalism in concrete and roughcast a missed opportunity to turn a blank canvas into a masterpiece ...( we lived in Torbrex and the flatroofs a conceptual disaster for example) .cost restructions led to cramped housing in a place where open spaces were the unique selling point.. all that potential was squandered ..but Cumbernaulds biggest asset were the people..we had great neighbours and a sense of community.. there was a frontier mentality new beginings for young families, a modern utopia was the concept, but it always remained just out of reach and elusive I think thats why so many people have a powerful sense of attacment IMO... to the town..in the ebd ..yes Cumbernauld is flawed,but it provided a fantastic landscape for exploration and adventure, a safe place for kids and families.. the main flaws were the result of short sightedness and lack of creativity and innovation by the town planners...a real golden opportunity missed... but Cumbernauld people always have a place in their heart for the place
11.56 with the bus where is that??
That's the road leading up to the Town Centre. A8011.
@@martinianpaul yes i thought it was, i was wondering how far down as i see a small holding at the back, i was thinking it might be the hill condorrat was built on in the background, but i am not sure i can't place the cottage. edit i had a look at a map from around the mid sixties there was a little loop for auchenkilns cottages near where baird memorial school was built i think that is the cottage in the background which would make that morar playing fields in the background. stunning stuff thanks again
hi great videos i have watched a few of yours. i have to say i have known of the theory of cumbernaulds place name since i was about 12 and even then i was never convinced. if you imagine the place 1500 years ago are you really going to name it after a couple of the many small streams when there are huge hills and valleys around you? After all streams do run into each other all over the country. So i have a theory on the origins and go easy as it is my own theory but i think the place is named after the wilderness brae hill and the valley of cumbernauld glen and i think it's name is from brythonic welsh and not scots gaelic. My theory is .. "cwm-bryn-allt" the cwm means valley, the bryn means hill and the allt means wooded hillside. I can't help but feel the huge features of the glen and the wooded wilderness brae would be a better reason to name the place than some very small burns. ps i would also add that they say condorrat means also the meeting of rivers and i think both these theories for cumbernauld and condorrat were from the same person, i just can not be convinced on this unfortunetly
Left Cumbernauld when I was 28, and have been away 19 years now, yet I still catch myself nearly saying "Cumbernauld" when anyone asks where I'm from. I don't know if it is peculiar to folk who grew up in Cumbernauld in the 60s, 70s, and 80s (my husband doesn't seem to have the same sense of belonging to where he grew up) but I suspect I will always be "from Cumbernauld". Or maybe I stand alone in my seemingly unbreakable attachment to the town. It's not as if it was some great utopia, goodness knows it had its flaws, but it was almost as if - well if no one else is going to see the best in it and love it, then we surely will. It's our town. ....but that was back then, back when, and now the reasoning is just as hazy and tinted with age as some of this footage. I did enjoy this reel of way back when in the place that seems to be forever in my default settings as "home". (Not that I ventured that far away. I did only go from North Lanarkshire to South Lanarkshire).
Im sorry if i wasn't allowed to put my memories onto this channel. My apologies. Xoxo
Nice music
I once asked a guy directions up there (the town centre) and he lured me into the public toilets and sodomized me! This was back in 1974.
i bet you loved it!
it does seem utopian when compared with mid 60's glasgow tenement life
these are great video's its amazing what it does to you, i was getting little sparks of images in my head from memory but i just could'nt hold them,as quick as a spark they are gone.most of them seem to be in my dad's old hillman driving about the town centre. god i'm ancient
2.50?
Seafar Primary School. Long since demolished. Now a car park for the Town Centre and some sheltered housing.
@@martinistakis1825 i remember it when it was ruined, accross from papa docs about 1992ish
where is that shell garage at the end
top of Seafar Road, I think.
@@martinianpaul yep i think you've nailed it,i was struggling with it so at 2.25ish you see the a80 then the village then cumbernauld house direction and would that make those houses at 2.31 campsie view? not sure,i had forgot about the seafar garage and was trying to fit it into the bells garage but it just didn't seem right
Great original vid Martin - 1966 was also the same year we moved to the 177 block maisonettes in Stonylee (@5:30) and brings back many memories of place. Worked part time on weekends in newly built Watson Bros garage(@5:10) serving petrol /operating the car wash 1970-72
The start is outside St Mungos Church at the top of the hill leading from Fergusson Road in Seafar, don't know if that hill was their at the time, it's also the entrance to the Town centre now, and known as the "Chippy Hill" (Chippy at the top of it in Town centre) again not sure if that part of the Town centre was built then probably not. The end of the video looks like Mitchison road looking over towards Hume road and the flats which are now gone. Ive seen an old photo of a fire station at Hume road, not sure if it was still in service when this video was shot.
Hi, nice video, Seafar is still a great place to live, with the woods and the playing fields nearby and the town centre just up the hill. You don't appreciate Cumbernauld until you've been away and lived in a cramped city or town that wasn't planned out so well with people in mind. The only place that reminded me of Cumbernauld was Stirling University's campus with its green spaces and nature with the 60s style student accommodation surrounding the main University buildings.
Good to see what it was like when built. Just moved here and some areas are improving (less crime, houses getting work done, council always around cleaning etc) Really quiet and children always out playing.
Its racist
No it's not
Cumbernauld looks awesome back in the day but i do miss plastic pat
Mr Jefferson Lolz! He was always saying “nae offence nae offence”. Is he still going? Still in the Asda car park?
Is it the film or a wee tear... seems so blurry in this HD world? Just joshing. Great archive of what the bravest newest toon was like back in the 60's. Nice to contrast it and link in with the formal 'staged' C'nauld stuff; even Magnus Magnusson got roped into that! Can't beat the familiar to me footage and the actuality of learning to ride a bike.
Thanks for uploading Martin. I was brought up amongst these images and not too far from where you lived. If I'm not mistaken you had a sister called Joy and a very cheery Mother who had an english accent ? I think she ran a catalogue too, from which my Mum used to order things. I was the Paper Boy in McGregor / Liddel Road and I worked on the Ice Cream Van,Bill's Ices :-) I seem to remember you as a very scholarly kid :-) Anyway thanks again for the upload and the fitting music.
Hi. Yes that was us. Except the scholarly bit, LOL!
Sweet. Thank you. Great to see so much of Seafar. It looks so new. I was born in 73. My parents lived in Allanfauld Rd from 1964 to 1971 and then Braeface Rd where my mum still is (dad departed for the great garden city in the sky in 2013). Had a wee greet watching it.
Braeface Road! My address was 46b. We moved there when the houses had just been built in 1963. Everything had such a new feel, and there was lots of greenery which I liked. Still, I was a boy of 15 so I was quite adaptable. The town centre was being built in phases, but the early phase suited our needs well enough. I wonder what Braeface Road is like now.
Brilliant stuff. My family moved to Kildrum that year. Seems like most of this was Seafar and "Toonie". Looked really close to the Snakey bridge that led over to Stuart house? Thanks for sharing Martin!
amazing video -
Nice wee video
yes, it was. well spotted !
Wow, was that some kids playing?! Now kids today are tracksuit wearing turds hanging about drinking buckie, spray-painting walls and assaulting passers by.
The family was a strong unit back then. Unfortunately it isn't any more.
Great to look back. Thanks.
Still can't beat Cumbernauld for it's classless community. And it's still got it's motorway town character.
What do you mean classless? E.g lacking class or being without the typically accepted measures and demarcations of social class?
Looked better back then, now it's an utter dumb. Not only the town is run down but what many don't talk about is how much human scum inhabit the town that contribute to the problem.
Certain areas aye, certain areas naw
@@mritchie85 they can say what they want but we were the first generation in our houses in the 70's everything around us was clean and new and it was a 1st class place for a childhood up to say 13 year old,after that age it struggled for my generation there wasn't much else to do but hanging around.not the worst place though
This is a brilliant video. Thanks for posting it.