St Mungo's Medals - Short Film Clip of Gorbals 1950's and Outskirts of Glasgow

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  • @mandymj
    @mandymj Год назад +10

    My Dad went to St Mungos. I was a baby in Springburn, a child in Easterhouse, a teenager in Cumbernauld. There’s something about Scotland that never leaves you 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💜

    • @someoneelse.2252
      @someoneelse.2252 Год назад

      could that 'something', be self absorption ?.

    • @carolannemckenzie3849
      @carolannemckenzie3849 Год назад +3

      No. Pride.

    • @angiepanjie
      @angiepanjie 9 месяцев назад +2

      My dad went to St. Mungos too. I was in Denistoun until 4, then Easterhouse until 7 when we moved to Condorrat. My gran lived in Springburn. Wonder if our paths ever crossed…at the swing park or something😁

    • @AB-kx4nc
      @AB-kx4nc 5 месяцев назад

      Money Normally

    • @WiTeRaBbIt-c4g
      @WiTeRaBbIt-c4g Месяц назад

      @@someoneelse.2252 Mabye culture?

  • @scottydog1407
    @scottydog1407 8 лет назад +55

    All those majestic tenements, replaced with bleak prison blocks. What. Were. They. Thinking.

    • @belladonnanightshade2332
      @belladonnanightshade2332 6 лет назад +15

      you wont get much better built houses than those sandstone tenements

    • @tedoneilclark4710
      @tedoneilclark4710 Год назад

      I was brought up in one, unfortunately they were all crumbling with age and had to be demolished. Most of them anyway.

    • @sebastianohalloran9093
      @sebastianohalloran9093 Год назад

      They wanted to provide fresh air and space with limited resources. Hindsight is wonderful. The tenements that survive in West Glasgow show what the many that were pulled down in the East could be; with upgraded courts, rooms combined to create larger apartments, plus internal plumbing.

    • @scottydog1407
      @scottydog1407 Год назад

      @sebastianohalloran9093 if you haven't already check out the destruction of Charing Cross to make way for the M8. Absolutely criminal.

    • @micahbodha6129
      @micahbodha6129 Год назад +2

      Its an effort to break up community spirit

  • @awilson5398
    @awilson5398 8 лет назад +26

    56 seconds in you can see the tenement I lived in, on Govan road at the Graving Docks, sadly unnecessarily demolished in 68 - Not all tenements or schemes were as run down or deprived as the Gorbals

  • @tmac3771
    @tmac3771 3 года назад +8

    Love the old footage of tenements ❤️

  • @tedoneilclark4710
    @tedoneilclark4710 Год назад +4

    I've watched this so many times. So very nostalgic 😀

    • @weesue
      @weesue  Год назад +1

      It is indeed Ted... 😃

  • @barbara1904
    @barbara1904 7 лет назад +41

    7.11 is were you'll find the villains responsible for the Glasgow clearances.
    What a partonising narator.

    • @alanoneill3065
      @alanoneill3065 5 месяцев назад +1

      fair do's ... he's only a voice over actor reading a script,...who WROTE the script is to blame

  • @stevo53
    @stevo53 9 лет назад +19

    Mum was born in 1929 in the tenement at 13 Crown St, (which appears centre of screen at 16:54) ,and lived there till leaving for Australia in 1950.
    I've stood at that spot, when I took her back in 2007, but this is the first glimpse I've had of her much talked about and much loved home, which is now just a small grassed park. Her old school in Adelphi Tce / Florence St, is still there, but I'm hoping to find some old pictures of this end of Crown St.
    And of the Swiss Cafe in London Rd, where she worked as a teenager, which is still there, next to the Tolbooth Bar, as the Val Doro Restaurant, still serving fish and chips, which we just had to have for a nostalgic bit of fun, sitting at the same Swiss Cafe furniture from all those years ago.
    Black Pudding Supper, well that's something different for this Aussie. Yum!

    • @weesue
      @weesue  9 лет назад +2

      +stevo53 Hi you might like the Facebook page called "Old Gorbals Pictures" and some folks may help you remember old memories of your mum's...

    • @jameswilson3991
      @jameswilson3991 5 лет назад

      i was born in gilmour street and my mas house was spotless we were happy there linda wilson

  • @maria14025
    @maria14025 10 лет назад +24

    People did not have much then,but we were happy,yes sad times too,but we made it.

    • @garryallison5679
      @garryallison5679 4 года назад

      Move firward 5 years; the past was better for many a reason.

    • @SnowPink90
      @SnowPink90 3 года назад

      But it was no way to treat people. When the city planners put people into those decrepit buildings, right away they should have started building places in a new area. They waited way too long and you poor people suffered. Dad grew up there and he was born in 1930 Glasgow.

    • @glesgapal
      @glesgapal 2 года назад

      @@SnowPink90 ruclips.net/video/7MptsmNB1o8/видео.html

  • @bluecanary1note
    @bluecanary1note 2 года назад +5

    The Council built new slums for old. Great schemes of claustrophobic concrete tenements which became run down and grotty, where the streets were canyons of fear. I know. I lived in such a scheme for years.

  • @johnmatrix1232
    @johnmatrix1232 10 лет назад +53

    In this period some of the worst architectural vandalism was carried out in many areas in Glasgow in the name of progress.
    Those council planners should've been arrested for some of the desecration they carried out.

    • @weesue
      @weesue  10 лет назад +6

      Agreed John... :( So sad...

    • @barbara1904
      @barbara1904 7 лет назад +11

      John Matrix Couldn't have said it better. I was shocked to see some of the buildings that were demolished. Granted some of the very delapidated buildings needed demolished. But Glasgow was like a mini London. Like Gorbals cross. All it needed was cleaned up and renovated.

    • @sambokkjohnston1742
      @sambokkjohnston1742 6 лет назад

      weesue ? 🎉

    • @rizwansaqib2065
      @rizwansaqib2065 5 лет назад +2

      I was thinking the exact same! An absolute tragedy to the citizens of the Gorbals

    • @johnlowdon5809
      @johnlowdon5809 5 лет назад +2

      It happened Nation wide .

  • @michaelharrison3602
    @michaelharrison3602 Год назад +3

    I grew up in a similar tenement in South London two rooms for me two brothers mumm and dad outside toilet gas mantles for light never knew running hot water until i was thirteen

  • @Sheridan900
    @Sheridan900 5 лет назад +17

    No question that a certain character was lost when so many of the old tennaments were demolished and replaced by modern tower blocks but it has to be said, living in them is not particularly easy. As someone who has lived in multiple old tennament buildings they are tremendously difficult to heat, with single glazed windows and high ceilings, have tiny kitchens and bathrooms, often without windows because they were retrofitted, and can have major issues with old lead pipes and bugs from the crumbling sandstone. Remember the past always looks better when it's not your everyday reality.

    • @ianjones6202
      @ianjones6202 5 лет назад +2

      The heat from the fire went up to the ceiling so yer maw had to be careful not to get 'corn mutton legs' sitting too close to the fire. You had to make sure the newspaper didn't catch fire when you were getting the fire going and keep the toast from getting burnt black holding it too long in front of the fire.

    • @SnowPink90
      @SnowPink90 3 года назад +1

      @@ianjones6202 My dad was born there in 1930 and he never talked to us kids about it. I found out by talking to my dads cousin who was younger by 5-6yrs and he told me all about it. It’d be so cold in the winter and the window had no glass. They had to put a piece of wood in it. Awful way to live. I feel so bad that you proud Scottish people had to live like that. 😔

    • @glesgapal
      @glesgapal 2 года назад

      @@SpookyElectric319 ye mean 'corn mutton legs'.. 😂

    • @geraldinehamilton2818
      @geraldinehamilton2818 Год назад +1

      @@SnowPink90 My dad was also born there in 1930. His name was Henry (Harry) Mc Cudden x. He hated the cold all the rest of his life! He left to do his National Service in South Africa in 1948. He was also in the Merchant Navy on the boats going to South America. He loved hot countries. No wonder.....😊

    • @SnowPink90
      @SnowPink90 Год назад

      @@geraldinehamilton2818 Wouldn’t that be something if they knew each other?!!

  • @ScarlettTonks-gn8pg
    @ScarlettTonks-gn8pg 5 месяцев назад +3

    My Glasgow born mother used to take me to see her aunt in the Gorbals

  • @LI3TOM3
    @LI3TOM3 8 месяцев назад +1

    Fantastic seen so many places i used to live ,

  • @sputumtube
    @sputumtube 9 лет назад +19

    To think.....the Easterhouse estate was once thought of as desirable. Just Google the images of it to see it now.

    • @buskerharmony
      @buskerharmony 9 лет назад +4

      +paul greenwood Hi the good people of Easterhouse were never allowed a referendum on prohibition, nor allowed a peoples public hall, something the Glasgow city people always had. Everything it seamed had to be under the control of the councils private direct works department staff. Frankie Vaunghan, I understand received no support and is not even noted anywhere. regards busker

    • @ianjones6202
      @ianjones6202 5 лет назад

      Ye can take the folk oot a Glesca but....ye canny take Glesca oot a the folks..

    • @nothingisreal8618
      @nothingisreal8618 5 лет назад

      @@ianjones6202 Aye yer right there jimmy!

    • @SnowPink90
      @SnowPink90 3 года назад

      Did each apartment have its own bathroom and kitchen and had at least 2 bedrooms?

    • @angiepanjie
      @angiepanjie 2 года назад

      We got moved from our room and kitchen in Denistoun to Easterhouse when my mum was pregnant with her 3rd, my brother. Then they pulled the whole street we lived in down..Mackintosh street. Lived 4 years in Easterhouse. My mum hated it though. Born and bred in tenements.

  • @stuartleggat7176
    @stuartleggat7176 4 года назад +6

    Absolutely fascinating footage of a bygone Glasgow...

  • @bettyprice6316
    @bettyprice6316 2 года назад +3

    Not all regeneration is for the better, it's not only buildings are destroyed, some of those buildings looked lovely.

  • @peterbonnar3088
    @peterbonnar3088 Год назад +2

    Dad grew up in the gorbals and I think it was mostly Catholic. He worked on the Clyde and I remember him saying he helped paint the Queen Elizabeth ship

  • @leitfie3579
    @leitfie3579 6 лет назад +15

    Excellent old footage, with an over-optimistic and patronising commentary, and the hoped-for shangri-la never materialised, though it is true that the standard of living in Glasgow now is vastly higher than it was then, when the country was strapped for cash and impoverished by war. What, I wonder, did the young queen really think, living in a palace and travelling in her huge limousine, about the people and houses of the Gorbals, where, according to the voice-over, three generations could live in a one-room dwelling? A country which allowed such inequality had no reason to feel satisfied with itself ........ and though we are far better off now, we have the foodbanks, the homelessness and the child poverty. It certainly makes you think.

    • @COLEEN322
      @COLEEN322 4 года назад +3

      What do you expect from Royalty? During the Irish Famine of the 1840's, good old Queen Victoria gave a whopping £5 to the Famine Relief Fund. A million died and over one and a half million emigrated, and she gave a fucking fiver!

    • @minty448
      @minty448 4 года назад +1

      Lord Nelson think yourself lucky!

    • @SnowPink90
      @SnowPink90 3 года назад

      @@COLEEN322 like any world leader, the Queen was more interested in her Offshore Accounts getting higher and higher and making sure they had enough young men to suit up and go to war at a moments notice. They go to events to pull some little curtain that’s covering the plaque on the wall, wave and off they go to their rich household and eats a 5 star meal.
      They and the wealthy don’t care. They put blinders on where there are homeless people. The Bible is right when it says, The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.

  • @rizwansaqib2065
    @rizwansaqib2065 5 лет назад +12

    I was a Pollokshields baby and when I view what’s happening up the road I just see The Gorbals and Laurieston in such a state. What a mess the regeneration is doing; There’s nothing unique about the area and it looks to have lost the majority of its community which is a shame. The new housing should have been offered to those that were placed in other areas/towns. The clearance was a grave mistake by yet again this useless council then known as Glasgow corporation... and those responsible should been put on trial for what they done

    • @SnowPink90
      @SnowPink90 3 года назад +1

      My dad was born there(Gorbals) and at 15 went to work on the ships as cooks helper and in the 1950’s his family (Dad, mom, brother and sister) moved to Montreal and made a great life for themselves. All owned their own houses which must’ve been like a castle to them. My dad and mom bought their first house just after I was born and it was brand new. Mom said dad was so proud of the life he gave us.

  • @janicepitt2347
    @janicepitt2347 4 года назад +9

    This film makes me feel very angry being-rehoused in Castlemilk, it wasn’t as great as the film led us to believe.

  • @weesue
    @weesue  11 лет назад +15

    There were very many sad times, Williamina, but the folks then didn't have much therefore didn't miss what they didn't have, and I know you don't hear the worst of it on here... I remember my childhood being happy, and we certainly didn't have much, but we were poor but maybe more fortunate that some... Sad times too... :(

  • @tribblebooth1224
    @tribblebooth1224 5 месяцев назад +1

    Scotland, is the centre of the Universe. Love it!

  • @ianjones6202
    @ianjones6202 5 лет назад +7

    Gets ye right here...I lived in a similar tenement in Dalmarnock Rd. Bridgeton til I was 8 (1954). At 18:42 you see the back showing 6 toilets for 16 apartments and each apartment had around 6 people, so that's 96 people sharing 6 toilets and I mean toilets...no sink, shower or bath -that was the kitchen sink... that life spawned us tough resourceful Glaswegians, yet full of laffs. Then moved to Toryglen (Glasgow new suburb) until 15 (1960) and then to Toronto til now (2019). 'Wha's like us'...

    • @weesue
      @weesue  5 лет назад +1

      Thanks for your wee story there Ian... Yes I remember many a day like that too... But still living in Glasgow... :)

    • @ianjones6202
      @ianjones6202 5 лет назад +1

      So, uh..what part do still live in Sue? I started a property Development company in 1980 so as a Scot, still carrying the banner in the 'New World'. www.bgigroup.ca ( The Bridgeton Group Inc.). PS - it's 3:13 that shows the back not 18:42...my boo boo...

    • @weesue
      @weesue  5 лет назад +1

      Hi Ian, I live in the New Gorbals, which is a beautiful place to live now... if you've seen recent pictures, very sought after houses and flats/apartments... My gran was born in Bridgeton... Not a far walk from here, very pleasant walking through the Glasgow Green... I'm a bit of a late night person too... Lol...

    • @jameshandlin4310
      @jameshandlin4310 4 года назад +2

      I lived in Brigton. My grannie stayed on Carstairs Street at Webster Street. Left Scotland in 69. Live in U.S. Great memories of family,

    • @glesgapal
      @glesgapal 4 года назад

      @@jameshandlin4310
      Hey Jimmy, have you got a relative in Toronto? Andy Handlin and his wife 'Magrit..'

  • @WilliamOdonnell-t2i
    @WilliamOdonnell-t2i 4 месяца назад

    Glasgow.will.never.die.we.are.the.people.in.family.we.will.grow❤

  • @dblenehan
    @dblenehan 10 месяцев назад +2

    I moved from bridgton slums to the biggest housing scheme in europe called castlemilk. It was hellish. No shops, schools, theatres, churches, pubs, play grounds jobs or anything a community needed.
    My mum walked about a kilometer from the closest bus stop with groceries for a family of five, uphill.
    Lots of gangs though with burmed out cars in the street. Hundreds of acres of identical three story apartment style buidings. I was much happier in the slums.
    We escaped to canada in 1957,but dad came a year earlier on his own with the maximum of £50 he was able to take out of the counrty and his tradesman's electrical tools.
    Dad bought a new house after a year of being here and the family moved in after a few months of being here.
    Different world
    This video was english propaganda with a english narrator telling us how brilliant and caring they are for the scots. Some of us know better.

    • @rabmcnamara5777
      @rabmcnamara5777 10 месяцев назад

      Funny, propaganda was the word that came to my mind. They effectively destroyed community and scattered the pieces with the promise of a better future.
      I grew up in easterhouse, no amenities, very little for kids and they created division by grouping people that came from similar places. The result? Gang life.
      The one thing they had was a swimming pool next to the shopping centre and community centre. Great, some where for the gangs to gather and have a square go.
      Still, at least we had the propaganda 😊

  • @michaelmcclafferty3346
    @michaelmcclafferty3346 2 года назад +4

    It’s a shame that they didn’t ask the people what they wanted.
    The Corpy demolished our home in Kinning Park to get the Kingston bridge built and moved us to Pollok.
    This place was huge but had virtually no facilities . A lot of tenements could have been saved but hey ho, they built human filing cabinets instead and called them skyscrapers.

  • @robertdoyle687
    @robertdoyle687 2 года назад +6

    I'm a Townhead boy and it was DESTROYED by the Corporation - good houses demolished without a thought 🤬

    • @ascott1953
      @ascott1953 11 месяцев назад +1

      Hi, are you the same Robert that went to the Mungo, Kennedy Street - I remeber you were a great swimmer - we were mates for a while

    • @robertdoyle687
      @robertdoyle687 11 месяцев назад

      @@ascott1953 Yes and my swimming days are behind me.

    • @ascott1953
      @ascott1953 11 месяцев назад

      @@robertdoyle687 You lived next to Allen Glens school if I remember. We sat together in the Barony up the back of the class - I remember Abdul the French teacher. Are you still living in Glasgow

    • @robertdoyle687
      @robertdoyle687 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@ascott1953 Dont know how but I ended up in Troon: no money and I dont play golf 😂

  • @seamusmccaffrey4420
    @seamusmccaffrey4420 9 лет назад +9

    They did the same in belfast

  • @alanoneill3065
    @alanoneill3065 5 месяцев назад +2

    community spirit was demolished

  • @marionrarity5738
    @marionrarity5738 5 месяцев назад +1

    All my husband's family came from the gorbals

  • @astra47420
    @astra47420 Год назад +2

    I lived in langside in 1970 to1981 brullint times

  • @brianlenehan9055
    @brianlenehan9055 6 лет назад +12

    Twerp sure loves his exagerated condescending english accent, chewing on his words like like a self satisfied stranger. Spoiled it for me

    • @weesue
      @weesue  6 лет назад +2

      I guess it's a 'Pathe News' type of 'Queen's English'... That's what they did then!

  • @ianofliverpool7701
    @ianofliverpool7701 3 года назад +3

    "Homes for heroes" sounds great till you see the soulless high rise boxes that they called homes

    • @pt14930
      @pt14930 10 месяцев назад

      Ain’t that the truth. Was told by the U Of Glasgow research project that those with ‘their own doors’ were not Catholics. They got Castlemilk. It’s hard to believe.

  • @Ceorolus
    @Ceorolus 6 лет назад +4

    The results give the term escapee a new meaning. Vandalism and cultural manipulation are unwittingly well documented throughout this video.

  • @g.macgregor5416
    @g.macgregor5416 2 года назад +1

    Hooray let’s get out of the slums and build new slums.
    This philosophy is simply known as
    kicking the can down the road.
    Added insult the reading is by Percy
    Caruthers Dinghy StJohn Esq.

  • @g.macgregor5416
    @g.macgregor5416 2 года назад +1

    Having been born and lived on Oxford st and attended St. john’s
    School i knew this area well, and it
    was awful.
    It’s notoriety was world wide even
    Monty piety did skits of it in the
    70-80s.

  • @paulowens7700
    @paulowens7700 10 лет назад +3

    Hi,
    I am doing a research project on the Gorbals area, to do with the tenements at Mathieson street, Sandyfaulds street and South Wellington street (later named Lawmoor) running North to South in the area and also the tenements of Rutherglen Road, Cumberland Street, Caledonia Road running East to West. I am also looking at the Basil Spence block which replaced them, I would be grateful if anyone has information of these blocks to get in touch with me or reply to this comment. Thanks

    • @paulowens7700
      @paulowens7700 10 лет назад

      ***** Thanks for your help Susan, do you know the name of this publication?

    • @weesue
      @weesue  10 лет назад

      paul owens Hi Paul I am /aka /Susan C It's more of an old Photographic book called "The Gorbals in the 70's" by Peter Mortimer & Duncan McCallum... You're welcome Paul...

    • @pt14930
      @pt14930 10 месяцев назад

      You should check out the ‘Multi Stories’ at the U of Glasgow too, where many folk from the Gorbals were moved.

  • @jamescharles9615
    @jamescharles9615 5 лет назад +12

    what planet is this joker on, jeezo

    • @weesue
      @weesue  5 лет назад

      A sign of the times James...

  • @jamessinclair1826
    @jamessinclair1826 6 месяцев назад +1

    What have they done ? What have they done ?

  • @charliemctruth
    @charliemctruth 7 лет назад +3

    god bless us wananall

  • @thomasgillen5344
    @thomasgillen5344 5 лет назад +3

    i love my dear green city Tommy bhoy

  • @angiepanjie
    @angiepanjie 2 года назад +3

    Might have been squalid on the outside but guaranteed so clean inside you could probably eat dinner off their kitchen floors😁

    • @weesue
      @weesue  2 года назад +1

      There were very many of those people who took pride in their homes... My mum being one of them... 🥰❤❤

    • @angiepanjie
      @angiepanjie 2 года назад +1

      @@weesue yes, my gran and all her sisters/brothers too. Everything was spick and span🥰

    • @glesgapal
      @glesgapal 2 года назад +1

      Ya got that right @Angela Krause . And the mithers each took a turn weekly whitewashing the main stair ( and the close.. 🙄).

    • @glesgapal
      @glesgapal 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/7MptsmNB1o8/видео.html

    • @christinejackson3922
      @christinejackson3922 Год назад

      Don’t know about that my grandma’s house was filthy and came from there

  • @texscot50
    @texscot50 10 лет назад +3

    They're Pulling Doon the Buildin' Next Tae Oors

    • @glesgapal
      @glesgapal 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/7MptsmNB1o8/видео.html

  • @Joe_Peroni
    @Joe_Peroni 5 лет назад +2

    I lived in the old Gorbals, at 167 Caledonia Road, until the age of 6, when we moved to Pollok. Our old tenement building was demolished soon after. I moved to Australia in the 80s.The narrator of this video made me cringe. A stuck-up, posh-voiced, smug, patronising pommie bastard. Enduring HIM was bad enough until his obscene anachronistic English Royals made an appearance, just to "rub it in".

  • @williamdrummond7687
    @williamdrummond7687 4 года назад

    did those two kids walk all the way from the gorbals to drumchaple, set up.

  • @peterchaloner2877
    @peterchaloner2877 5 месяцев назад

    The DEI vibe is missing in this film. Look at the wonderful contribution Useless Hamza and his crew have made to Glasgow's deracination.

  • @edwardoneil3962
    @edwardoneil3962 3 года назад

    Does anyone know the year that this film was made? Thanks 😀

  • @Gerbbo1
    @Gerbbo1 3 года назад +5

    I would’ve so loved to have come face to face with that condescending poor excuse for a narrator. 🤬

  • @engelberthumperdinck7366
    @engelberthumperdinck7366 4 года назад +1

    READ THE REAL GORBALS STORY NEXT BRILLIANT

  • @caitgems1
    @caitgems1 Год назад +1

    Where's ma buntin

  • @williamf4544
    @williamf4544 Год назад

    Its a shame the never bulldozed Allison Street while they were at it - what a rat infested midden it is - you would think you were back in the Gorbals - the run doon part

  • @sean367
    @sean367 6 месяцев назад

    They just built new slums that are stil no-go areas today.

    • @weesue
      @weesue  6 месяцев назад

      I think you are still living in the past... It's not like that at all...

  • @RaveDave871
    @RaveDave871 4 месяца назад +1

    Aye "i kno wat best" silly git narrator !

  • @greenmagoos
    @greenmagoos 8 лет назад +1

    Gorbals Clearances. m.ruclips.net/video/VqBxybv1lpU/видео.html

    • @jackmcnally9237
      @jackmcnally9237 2 года назад

      What an absolutely awesome, overwhelmingly wilful wanker this English narrator truly is !

  • @afe01236
    @afe01236 3 дня назад

    thanks for the propaganda

  • @neilmaclean294
    @neilmaclean294 9 месяцев назад

    This guy is awful.