What a great thing RUclips is showing these social history documentaries. Where else would you get it,this was shown 50 years ago on television and has probably never been repeated on television,but RUclips and other social media and the internet in general you can watch it anytime to your hearts content. I wonder have any of the people shown in this Razor gangs episode seen themselves on RUclips as the 17 year olds are all about 67 years old now.
Such intelligence and decency from Mr. Webster - real action is what we need right now - self management and mutual aid. His observations on the wilful destruction of community which was later completed by that vicious, treacherous, uppity, chav Thatcher as root cause of the problems shown here and prolific today was sadly prophetic.
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Once i worked alongside two retired CID Officers. They're insights and recollections regarding this era were fascinating. Thank you for furthering my knowledge with this upload.
Criminals In Deed. Hope you got your "cut" of their take. You weren't likely to get promoted to DC back then unless you were willing to do as criminals would.
I was a junior doctor in Glasgow Royal infirmary in 1978 to 1979 . I say many razor and knife wounds . The worst time by far was Saturday evening after a Celtic Rangers match . I would see as many as 12 to 15 razor and stab wounds . We even had a clinic solely for patients who had been stabbed . GRI’S proudest boast a “ Stab injury returns clinic . I think it’s miles better now . D
@desmondmccann782 I think I read somewhere that the Southern General was a world renowned head injury hospital, because they saw so many cracked and broken heads. I think they devised the Glasgow coma scale which has been used globally.
Personal choice and taking responsibility for one's actions is key. My ex grew up in Glasgow in a run-down area. He scurried around like a little alley cat in the backstreets and through holes in fences to avoid the violence. When he was sixteen, he persuaded his parents to emigrate to Canada, citing economic reasons, as they earned only enough money for rent and groceries. But the real reason, which he never told his parents, was that he was being pressured to join a gang. When he came to Canada in 1966, he was still on high alert against attack, but he soon realized that it was a lot more peaceful and nobody wanted to pick a fight with him.
Personal choice and responsibility? You mean his mum and dad had the financial wherewithall to move 3,000 to another country? There were areas in Glasgow back then where the average life expectancy was around 50. Personal choice?
@@gab99 Yes, personal choice. His family was poor. For weeks on end, all they had to eat was chips and eggs. Sometimes they had no coal to heat their home. But little miracles happened for them to supply their needs. Ian's father was a farm labourer, working for a man who bought estates, improved them, then sold them. Later, Jan worked as the custodian of a church in Glasgow. He couldn't read or write, as he was dyslexic. But my mother-in-law was a woman of faith. God told her many years before that He was going to send her as a missionary to some Indians and showed them to her in a vision. She was willing to go to India, but she thought those people God showed her were odd-looking Indians. It turns out that her mission field was in Canada to the Cree tribe in Alberta. It was God who moved on Ian to want to leave Scotland. It's always good to have the kids on board with a decision to move to another country. It seemed like there was no way in they would be approved for immigration due to his parents' health issues, but Ian's mother figured it was worth a try. Their health problems did not show up on the medical tests. They sold their furniture. One way or another, the money came in for the family to afford the fare on the Empress of Canada. A job was obtained for Ian and his father the day after they arrived in Canada, on a stud farm, which was terrific because Ian loved animals and had always taken good care of his pets. He was a hard worker, too. His boss wanted to pay for him to train to be his farm manager. Ian did not want to be obligated to the man his whole life, though, so he turned down that opportunity and worked in a mill, then in construction, and eventually as an iron worker before he retired. Ian and his father gave up their job on the stud farm because God told his mother that they were going to move and their new job would pay only half what Ian and his father presently earned. So, his father gave notice and their boss tried to persuade them to not leave. They got packed up and, three days from the end of the month, they still did not know where to go. But Ian's father got a phone call that day from a man in Alberta who owned a turkey farm and said he was desperate for help. He was shocked when Jan said that they were ready to go. It was as Mary said; they were paid only half of what they previously earned. But their new home was right next to a Cree reservation. The chief and his wife were Christians and gave Mary permission to visit the natives on their reserve. She ministered there for many years. Everyone has the opportunity to be reconciled to God through Jesus Christ and ask Him for help with what they need. He is willing, able, and eager to help. The Bible gives guidelines for how to ask and what to ask for.
I’m ex forces from 80 s I know how to look after myself all these people want is a tribe a pack a sence of belonging and a faith in directions catch them young and spare them the misery God bless all. We all want to belong
One of the great things about Scotlands youth today is that as a whole they just don’t have that violence in them. I know they still have their headbangers, but in my experience the things shown here were still prevalent through the 1970’s. Somethings changed for the better.
6:56 the coppers drag a kid (just smacked another kid) back into the club - a few seconds later, he's dragged back out again in cuffs completely unconscious. Those were the days!!
Yeah I bet you love it when your rights get violated by the police. You probably purposely speed to get pulled over so you can get your rocks off by consenting to search.
Kids that join gangs always blame it on poverty, but most people that grow up in poverty don't get involved in it. It's less about poverty and more about the adrenaline rush and trying to look big in front of your mates.
So true , we were taught to pick up litter if we see it and say please and thankyou, just because ya poor doesn't mean you can't be kind and not a messy gobby anti social headbanger,one family can ruin an entire neighbourhood 😅
Like how when whites are in these conditions the narrative is that they're just thugs, when blacks are in these environments suddenly you lot start talking about sociology of it all.. funny how that works.
I read a book about the Dieppe battle in WW2. The author states that a number of the Commando's were recruited from Glasgow razor gangs. Sometimes violent men are needed to fight violent men.
For all their patronising style, documentaries like this showed something that most people didn't really know much about. Today, our documentary makers seem to afraid to talk to people who are violent or who have markedly different lifestyles. Understanding suffers as a consequence.
Those guys the unspeakables with their blue vans were the worst criminals around, mostly fitting up innocent kids. You know it big Cyril McWanker was one of the worst.
That's nothing ! Teds were still a thing in Fife up till recently. Middle aged guys with quiffs and winkle pickers was a common sight in some pubs. Probably still is...?
The rest of the world was taking massive amounts of decent Acid, getting into peace and love, listening to Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix. Meanwhile in Scotland :-)
For most of the 70s my mother used to take my brother and I from our house outside London to Easterhouse to visit her friends at New Year. Imagine the fun the local thugs had hunting down the English boys, it was scary. We learned how to run fast...
@@keithbald5066 see this is why we all hate each other cause yees are all fannies I hes talking pish but then ye need ay come oot way some pish about brexit sorry but Marcus said it best ye dont care about the collar around yer neck just whos hawding it pipe doon n dont be wan ay they greeting face "remainer" pricks
I'm a taxi driver in Glasgow and even today some of these guys who were involved with the different gangs and are now "old men" still carry blades of some sort! (Just incase) ;)
When you wore a tie and collar if you were in a gang. Could do with subtitles though. I like the bit where the kid hits the copper, a bus goes by, and then the kid's seen being dragged off unconscious "Fell down the stairs M'lud."
The vast majority of these gangs were NOT divided by religion. YES there were some ie. The Billy Boys but as one person has already said most were just where you happened to live on a Scheme. There could even be 3 or 4 gangs in the same Scheme. That's not to underestimate the issues in the West of Scotland with sectarianism, which was horrendous and ingrained in society.
@@colinhathaway9493 It's worth a read if you like your literature "fiction based on real life", but apart from running around carving people's faces up the worst thing the protagonist does (if my memory serves me well) is piss in the sink. Of course, for the 1930s that was utterly scandalous!
Great documentary! Thank you! ..... Wouldn't it be interesting, to see how these young people, got on, in their future lives??? I think the makers of the show, should try to track down the surviving ones, and do a documentary on what happened next! .... A bit like the uk '7 UP,' series, where a group of 7 year old kids, were filmed in, i think 1963, then every 7 years, right up to the present day! xx
I was in barlinnie prison back then, but now here in Australia at 68 I am planning on starting my life at 70 going up to the tropics hunting and fishing,using my 2 pensions $40k+ margin loan @80%=$200k+ write monthly options 10-30% a year=$220-260k jogging, lift weights, work out....oh and over 170k stalkers over the years, now that's another amazing story.
Ha ha my dad was in an Easterhouse gang and joined the Royal Highland Fusiliers in 1963. He was a total madman, he would nick anything that wasn't tied down.
I remember a group called scheme well known back in day from cranhill Glasgow was hard going growing up but wouldn't change it I've learned so much being brought up in Glasgow and the people are friendly it's drink and drugs that the problem no jobs prospects
Even with half a century's hindsight, it's still impossible to generalise a single cause of Glasgow's problems. Need to bear in mind that the gangs weren't newly formed in 1967: they'd been on the go for many decades before, and had mainly been spawned by sectarian divisions, reflected in the housing/ living situations of the working class. Interesting wee film, thanks for the upload...
My mate's granddad used to working in the Glasgow shipyards, he used to put razor blades in his jacket lapels so if anyone grabbed them they would immediately let go and he would hit them with his flat cap that had a lead weight sewn into the back of it.
@@LOLCAMz Why then, has Glasgow's Violence Reduction Unit been praised for their success & is now being considered by the Metropolitan Police in London ?
When i served in the army when i passed p coy we had about 5 scottish lads on the course and all of them passed theyre just headstrong people who get on with it and dont give up ,i bet the Brigade alone was about 30% scottish
During the late 70s ❤I remember seeing guys fighting with samurai swords. That was the worst, seeing people fighting was very normal. Moved to England in 1980 it all stopped,although it took some years for me to relax around new people and to trust strangers.
I met a Scots guy some 25 yrs ago, and he had been in sword fights with a gang. He was greatly surprised that he was sill alive. He was about 50 back then, so he would have been fighting in the 60s, 70s and 80s. He said they would just surprise attack a pub and wade in with their swords. He also stated that there were a no of occasions when he thought he would die.
Broke down in Queenslie in the 80s as a teenager… it was nearly 11pm 🕚, asked a girl with a pram if there was a phone box and she laughed out loud and said I might get one in Easterhouse next door but not in Queenslie 😳 I walked up to a few dozen kids hanging about and nobody spoke to me when I asked questions, they must have thought I was crazy. Flagged down a paddy wagon 👮♀️and they told me to get in the back, they took me to the AA depot that was nearby and I was relayed home to Edinburgh 😅. I hear the area is alright now 🤔
50 years later in Southern England I hear 40 - something folks whining how their delivery of super-expensive tiles for their en suite will take 3 days to appear - to enhance the hideously over priced designer sanitary ware from a bathroom boutique- and how the fellas whom actually fits the things are too expensive . That’s Misery in today’s deprived society where I live. ....☹️
Brilliant snap shot of Glasgow and Scotand then. A lot of different elements of society seen in this. The more time goes by the more these things become priceless social history.
Glaswegian's in general are lovely people. The knife culture has and always will be part of Glasgow. I find this depressing. Although the Gallowgate is almost finished, I find it so depressing that there you still see young people with facial scars, after being cut from one side of their mouth to the next. Glasgow is a big beautiful city with impressive architecture of black and yellow sandstone. I wish the knife crime would stop and the drug problem was tackled.
Bullshit. Gangs are dead in Glasgow. There is a tiny minority everywhere, but Glasgow is an example to every other city how to deal with it. Glasgow has turned into one of the safest cities in the world.
@@brianmchugh7679 feels safe as fuck mate. Been coming to Glasgow a hell of a lot over the last six or seven years. I have friends that lived in Govanhill although they’ve moved to Paisley now. Glasgow centre feels safer than Manchester City centre where I come from for sure. Love Glasgow and will move up someday. The missus loves it also
To tackle the drug problem we need to target poverty and corruption in government. A recent post in the Edinburgh Scotsman had given praise to a multi million concert hall development in the new town area of the city. In the Edinburgh evening news reports of a Leith community center being closed due to lack of funding along with Nicola Sturgeon stating millions in aid to the Ukraine. With funding like that for what those corrupt politicians see as more necessary appropriation of funds how on earth can we make sure our children and society prosper. At least in the 70/80s there had been community centers. Keep the poorer people in poor education, separate society and keep the peasants scared of eachother and not focused on governmental crimes
Mr Orange Yeah I get you there. I could grasp what they were saying, but it wouldn't be the first time I've saw documentaries covering the same situation, but up to date in the 2000's, that have had to put subtitles up probably for the English, but I've never had a problem understanding them, apart from the odd "what the hell did he say there?" Yes had that. Well nice to have commented back to you. Have a nice day. Cheers...Paul. (Auld Skool) Well if approaching 52 in November says it, fair enough, it's only a number, I feel and look 35! That does my head in, I mean at least get close!...Paul.
haha nice one fella,sectarian bollox they are Scots not Irish,They want to be Irish but sadly they never will as they are Scots,as for the little shit at 1.30 he couldn't knock his granny off the piss pot,hard bastard with a blade mind
Good to see that politicians were blaming residents for their own circumstances and lack of community facilities. Nothing has changed still no youths clubs or community centres.
As it happens I was a teenager in Glasgow at that time, the slums of Glasgow were filthy and overcrowded, the new flats in Easterhouse were originally welcomed, then it was realised that they were soulless, no support, no jobs. Not much has changed though standards of living have improved. I may be wrong but I think bicycle chains were carried by gangs in the 60's, the razor gangs were from the 1950's Poverty meant not enough money to buy food.
I would agree with you dad was born in 1932 and he always used to talk about the razor gangs. He said they used to stitch a razor blade in the peak of their caps. As much as I love the people of Glasgow I’m glad we moved to England too much violence.
Dont exadrerate there was obviously enough money for food lol, Britishpeople dont starve and never have, at least not since the 1600s, possibly 1700s, even in the war nobody starved.
Yeah the razor gangs were at the same time as the " teddy " boys and early rock n roll. My father worked in a tailors at the time, the gang leaders would come in for a new 3 piece suit every few weeks. They wanted a velvet lined collar, so that the motorbike chain didn't snag when drawn out. And they also wanted 2 narrow side pockets on the back of the trousers for their open razors
I was born in 442 Baltic street Glasgow went to Springfield road primary school brilliant days playing moshie playing in the swings ,the park keeper was Danny he used to bring in and sell bags of marshmallows football in the street Eddie's grocer shop kit kat cafe a mad dug called bulit denholme bakers but as we got a little older the real things became to the forefront Baltic Fleet ,Billy boys , and others and very quickly learned what feet you kicked with, my parents bless them moved out of thier I guess they knew what might lay ahead for me ,I allways remember my friends from there and pray they had a good life but I I allways remember even at a young age the razor was the weapon of choice the history of Glasgow gangs is legendary and you could make so many programmes dedicated to showing the life style of those days
Our family came from 542 Baltic Street and the local gang was the Young Baltic Fleet. Norrie was our leader and he led from the front against the Spur Tongs and San Toi.
@@olamsoevik White farmers were literally killed and sexually assaulted, at one time removed from their lands by the black government, what crack are you smoking lad.
I’m a Scot from Inverness. Our accent is very different from Glaswegian but when I was young all the lads could put on a fair imitation of a Weegie accent. That accent, together with aggressively advancing scared other guys shiteless if outsiders fancied a fight !
I ran about with the Cumbie from the Gorbals in Glasgow in the Sixties I was up to all sorts and fought with the Shamrock and the Tongs and a whole lot more, I got stabbed and was slashed by a bottle, it was just part of growing up then,changed days thank God lol
I am in teaching. Brought up the hard way in London. Moved away to get a better opportunity. I feel for these people. This video is a great insight into how life was for a minority. Obviously, the will to survive meant sticking together. The politicians sound shady! But how did many turn out eventually in life? Does life like this still exist in places like this? You say it ( the slashing & stabbing ) was part of growing up...Was there not another way? I imagine a lot of wasted lives as well as a lack of choice in life back then, thanks to the politics to a certain extent. Good to know that some people made it in life but pity not all have. A lesson learnt here in this video.
7:02 that police totally took that wee guy in an gave him a cheeky slap! From fighting and struggling to needs 2 guys jus te carry him to the pig van! That's what the police should still be able to do.
Aye, they seemed to bundle him through a set of doors then drag him back out after a few seconds. What's the betting he was given a bit of a vicious kicking, dragged away and sent on his way with a few cracked ribs and a couple of black eyes and no further action taken? Perhaps in most cases that type of rough justice worked, but how many times did it result in life changing injuries and death? Is it right that the Police should have the power to tackle violence with violence and act like thugs themselves. Just look at what that type of rough justice did to Liddle Towers....
hellfiregrowler well ye see this is the age old argument how to dish out 'justice' appropriately the police these days are a completely different beast to the police of back then the red tape alone ties the hands. Yes some police officers are bully types but not all, I spent my entire youth thinking the same old shite everyone thought "fuck the police, they're all cunts" and it was after growing up and realising the majority of them are just trying to do their job (and a difficult one too) so I think yes the police should be able to trade violence for violence, and I think the majority of situations iv heard of the police these days have dealt with the situation with professionalism because it's their job if they don't.
I respect your opinion and a very fair one too. I agree most Coppers are not pricks but sadly there still are a fair few that are, just look at policing at the football. They are, as you say earning a crust to feed their families so are no different to any other working man and woman and we would be in a very bad way without an effective law and order system. Although most people on the receiving and of police brutality have probably "asked for it" or "deserved" it, I just feel a system where its acceptable for the Police to be able to beat people leads us into the realms of an oppressive police state we all agree (I imagine) would be a regressive step and a threat to our own civil liberties.
hellfiregrowler I grew up in a fairly isolated town in south west Scotland in the 80's and 90's I myself know of people and have been the recipient of a swift dig in the ribs by a pissed off police officer iv known of people receiving the dreaded mattress punishment were they'd truncheon ye threw a mattress (apparently leaves less of a bruise) and I can tell ye we did deserve it. However I've also lived in Glasgow for 10 year or so in my adult life and dealt with the police on a few different occasions and it was a very different experience altogether due to the fact I wasn't a wee fanny and I dealt out as much respect as I was given and I was promptly and proverbialy slapped on the wrist and told te bugger off as they had better things to do. And I promptly buggered off on my way, happy and not arrested. Now you can view the same stereotyping through a few different professions bouncers and bar staff for instance or even the armed forces on occasion, are viewed as being bully types or angry and short tempered now iv worked as both bar staff and in the military and I know a good few door staff and away from work they or I are usually very friendly people but while working arguably deal with more fannys than your other types of work. So it makes you a bit bitter and short because drunk people or angry idiots are very volatile people and are very very difficult do deal with, so I doth my cap to all these professions for every day they don't slap some titt for standing shouting profanities right in your face. So let's not give them too hard a time, because you can always say "I'd deal with it this way" however until your face to face with these issues on a daily basis you never truly know how you would actually deal with it.
I remember Glasgow in the 70s . Am from Ayrshire and went to Rangers Cletic games with my mates .. I never was into football and never cared who won . Sometimes I was in rangers end somethings in the Celtic end .. As my mates were . However all I ever remember was violence violence violence fighting fighting fighting ..... Changed days now . I got caught up in fights for nothing! For just being in the wrong place at the wrong time .. That's my memories of Glasgow
Wee Joes' logic is pure gang mentality " if ( the guy we just plunged) he is lying screaming on the ground he's not dead so he's ok and no need to worry" … " if he is screaming he's ok" …
2018 there are still Teams, Gangs running in Glasgow and around Scotland today, but not as bad as numerous as they were in the 60s and 70s. I know I was there.
With regard to the woman saying working class teenagers are treated the same as middle class. The middle classes in Glasgow will not give the working class the steam off of their piss. They are completely invested in those who have moved to Glasgow from other countries and those who are actually from here can bounce. Those in charge of the funding and allocation in many cases have a tenuous link to Glasgow and indeed Scotland, they go from city to city and in some cases country to country following the money and changing those cities to how they like them which is absolutely nothing what they looked like twenty years previous demographic wise. This applies across politics, the media, academia, publishing, the Arts, entertainment etc. Treacherous barstewards.
I'm from the Midlands - I love Glasgow, they work hard and they play hard. They same goes for a lot of Northern towns.... Newcatle, Manchester, Leeds. Etc etc. Way better than the South imo.
There are some entertaining moments in this video: 6:33 - one punch knockout. 8:53 - the dumbass says anyone can safely walk, or walk safely, down any street in Glasgow, somehow I don't think that was the case. 14:04 - my favourite part of the video - wanker.
Looking back I would suggest that much of the social troubles in Glasow back then (and today) was down to the crude hatred between the Glasgow Rangers (Protestant) and Glasgow Celtic (Catholic) football fans (tribes)!!
Considering the social problems and poverty of the times these gang members are much more smart and well dressed compared with youths involved in gang violence these days. They all looked like Mods too which surprised me as I imagined the gangs of the era in Glasgow to have been Rockers
25:00 treat them as human beings, they will respond. A lesson the society still needs to learn about lads. Stop painting them as 'toxic', start looking at them as humans with different needs.
I was born in Glasgow but moved to Corby many years ago. I would go back often for holidays and stay with my grandparents, when I was seventeen I went to stay t my aunt’s with my boyfriend in Easter house it was high rise buildings everywhere my aunt and her family were scared to go out at night surely that awful they had to live like that that was in the early 1970
What a great thing RUclips is showing these social history documentaries. Where else would you get it,this was shown 50 years ago on television and has probably never been repeated on television,but RUclips and other social media and the internet in general you can watch it anytime to your hearts content. I wonder have any of the people shown in this Razor gangs episode seen themselves on RUclips as the 17 year olds are all about 67 years old now.
Paul Dunne
Was that you?
jayboy009 No i was born two years later in 1970.
Fuck up
da phuk What are you trying to say to me?
still goes on today
"Pontificating from vacuums of inexperience" - beautifully put and the hobby of most of us these days!
@@jamesmcindoe5190 - you are a big tube
Such intelligence and decency from Mr. Webster - real action is what we need right now - self management and mutual aid. His observations on the wilful destruction of community which was later completed by that vicious, treacherous, uppity, chav Thatcher as root cause of the problems shown here and prolific today was sadly prophetic.
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I was once in a 'Razor Gang'. Unfortunately due to cuts, we had to disband
daniel titmus sounds like you had a close shave 😩😩
you weren't the sharpest blade in the tool box maybe?
I heard you were not too sharp
Wow Quite a Hairy situation you'd put yourself in
Wow and just in the nick of time
I was in quite a nice gang, we only used safety razors. It was called the Gillette GIIs, not the greatest but at the time, the best a man could get.
A wiz in ra dinky toy gang.🤣🤣🤣
You were obviously a cut above the rest😊
Hampered by Woke ideology.
I was in the Philips Posse. We could only operate within range of a shaver socket.
Health and safety 1st then the glaswiegen smile
Once i worked alongside two retired CID Officers. They're insights and recollections regarding this era were fascinating. Thank you for furthering my knowledge with this upload.
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Criminals In Deed. Hope you got your "cut" of their take. You weren't likely to get promoted to DC back then unless you were willing to do as criminals would.
Cemetery’s are full of tough guys.
So are the jails
Mugs game.
Full of soft guys too. Everyone dies, eventually.
@@markhemming318 if we die eventually,why we born?
@@stayrospaparunas3062
Google the question.
I was a junior doctor in Glasgow Royal infirmary in 1978 to 1979 . I say many razor and knife wounds . The worst time by far was Saturday evening after a Celtic Rangers match . I would see as many as 12 to 15 razor and stab wounds . We even had a clinic solely for patients who had been stabbed . GRI’S proudest boast a “ Stab injury returns clinic . I think it’s miles better now . D
@desmondmccann782 I think I read somewhere that the Southern General was a world renowned head injury hospital, because they saw so many cracked and broken heads. I think they devised the Glasgow coma scale which has been used globally.
There was also a notable rise in incidents of domestic violence on days of Celtic/Rangers matches.
Personal choice and taking responsibility for one's actions is key. My ex grew up in Glasgow in a run-down area. He scurried around like a little alley cat in the backstreets and through holes in fences to avoid the violence. When he was sixteen, he persuaded his parents to emigrate to Canada, citing economic reasons, as they earned only enough money for rent and groceries. But the real reason, which he never told his parents, was that he was being pressured to join a gang. When he came to Canada in 1966, he was still on high alert against attack, but he soon realized that it was a lot more peaceful and nobody wanted to pick a fight with him.
He didn't play ice hockey then?
Personal choice and responsibility? You mean his mum and dad had the financial wherewithall to move 3,000 to another country? There were areas in Glasgow back then where the average life expectancy was around 50. Personal choice?
@@gab99 Yes, personal choice. His family was poor. For weeks on end, all they had to eat was chips and eggs. Sometimes they had no coal to heat their home. But little miracles happened for them to supply their needs.
Ian's father was a farm labourer, working for a man who bought estates, improved them, then sold them. Later, Jan worked as the custodian of a church in Glasgow. He couldn't read or write, as he was dyslexic. But my mother-in-law was a woman of faith. God told her many years before that He was going to send her as a missionary to some Indians and showed them to her in a vision. She was willing to go to India, but she thought those people God showed her were odd-looking Indians. It turns out that her mission field was in Canada to the Cree tribe in Alberta.
It was God who moved on Ian to want to leave Scotland. It's always good to have the kids on board with a decision to move to another country. It seemed like there was no way in they would be approved for immigration due to his parents' health issues, but Ian's mother figured it was worth a try. Their health problems did not show up on the medical tests.
They sold their furniture. One way or another, the money came in for the family to afford the fare on the Empress of Canada. A job was obtained for Ian and his father the day after they arrived in Canada, on a stud farm, which was terrific because Ian loved animals and had always taken good care of his pets. He was a hard worker, too. His boss wanted to pay for him to train to be his farm manager.
Ian did not want to be obligated to the man his whole life, though, so he turned down that opportunity and worked in a mill, then in construction, and eventually as an iron worker before he retired.
Ian and his father gave up their job on the stud farm because God told his mother that they were going to move and their new job would pay only half what Ian and his father presently earned. So, his father gave notice and their boss tried to persuade them to not leave. They got packed up and, three days from the end of the month, they still did not know where to go. But Ian's father got a phone call that day from a man in Alberta who owned a turkey farm and said he was desperate for help. He was shocked when Jan said that they were ready to go. It was as Mary said; they were paid only half of what they previously earned.
But their new home was right next to a Cree reservation. The chief and his wife were Christians and gave Mary permission to visit the natives on their reserve. She ministered there for many years.
Everyone has the opportunity to be reconciled to God through Jesus Christ and ask Him for help with what they need. He is willing, able, and eager to help. The Bible gives guidelines for how to ask and what to ask for.
hope his kids persuade him to come back before they are forced to change gender
I’m ex forces from 80 s I know how to look after myself all these people want is a tribe a pack a sence of belonging and a faith in directions catch them young and spare them the misery God bless all. We all want to belong
Brilliant piece of history. Thank you for uploading.
One of the great things about Scotlands youth today is that as a whole they just don’t have that violence in them. I know they still have their headbangers, but in my experience the things shown here were still prevalent through the 1970’s. Somethings changed for the better.
What a fantastic programme. Thanks so much for the upload. Top stuff
6:56 the coppers drag a kid (just smacked another kid) back into the club - a few seconds later, he's dragged back out again in cuffs completely unconscious. Those were the days!!
Yeah I bet you love it when your rights get violated by the police. You probably purposely speed to get pulled over so you can get your rocks off by consenting to search.
He fell lol
That was nothing. Compared to what you were getting back at the cop shop if you were unlucky enough to be arrested lol
@@jasonm7973 comparing speeding to punching someone in the face???
Jason M is obviously a pink and fluffy lefty bless!! ‘Mummy the nasty Policeman roughed me up a bit.. Waaaaah!!’ 😂😂😂
Kids that join gangs always blame it on poverty, but most people that grow up in poverty don't get involved in it. It's less about poverty and more about the adrenaline rush and trying to look big in front of your mates.
not dat n e 1 perfect but I think it gos down 2 environment.
So true , we were taught to pick up litter if we see it and say please and thankyou, just because ya poor doesn't mean you can't be kind and not a messy gobby anti social headbanger,one family can ruin an entire neighbourhood 😅
My cousin was the leader aff of
the Car - D. ..at least , that's what he told me..?
Like how when whites are in these conditions the narrative is that they're just thugs, when blacks are in these environments suddenly you lot start talking about sociology of it all.. funny how that works.
I read a book about the Dieppe battle in WW2. The author states that a number of the Commando's were recruited from Glasgow razor gangs. Sometimes violent men are needed to fight violent men.
Spot on 🏴
For all their patronising style, documentaries like this showed something that most people didn't really know much about. Today, our documentary makers seem to afraid to talk to people who are violent or who have markedly different lifestyles. Understanding suffers as a consequence.
That sergeant was out of touch when he said anyone could walk anywhere....this was bollocks
He was clearly under orders to play it down. Couldn't mention 'gangs'!
wungabunga Nothing changes😂It’s like they do these days, relabel things, so they sound more inoffensive!
Those guys the unspeakables with their blue vans were the worst criminals around, mostly fitting up innocent kids. You know it big Cyril McWanker was one of the worst.
He was clearly told to play it down.
He wasn’t out of touch at all he was straight up lying 😂
"They are handing in their weapons"- cuts to young guy walking with a huge axe!
Cutting edge stuff here.
A wee bitty edgy !!
🤣
I grew up on the southside in the 70s, Castlemilk same problems though we didnt have to suffer Frankie Vaughn.
Shame on you, you missed all the singing and dancing! Come to the Cabaret old chum, come to the Cabaret.
I went to Glasgow once for a good time it was great I came home in stitches !
The worst place I ve ever been to
@Moky
Come tae Glesga
We'll set aboot ye
Better than a close shave with those razors!
"The Spur from Bridgeton" Big mistake, the Spur are from Barrowfield!
Brian Stewart was the 17 year old who got 8 years for slashing a SB cop. And he's now a happy old boy.
A cutting edge documentary. I was aged 7 at the time, and lived in Dundee. We had a big gang culture in the 70s, but I had no wish to be part of it.
I remember going to Dundee with Hearts then. The gangs always turned out. Lochee Fleet. Shimmy. Hilltown Huns. Mid. Kirkton Huns. Shams and others.
Bloody hell..the mods were alive and kicking still in 1968 Glasgow !!
That's nothing ! Teds were still a thing in Fife up till recently. Middle aged guys with quiffs and winkle pickers was a common sight in
some pubs. Probably still is...?
@@2msvalkyrie529 Finding winkle pickers can’t be easy. Thats not fashion lethargy, getting left behind, that’s dedication.
@@trsrctab7019 SHAWLAND TONGS, .RULE. PAL...YER CLAIMED PAL
The rest of the world was taking massive amounts of decent Acid, getting into peace and love, listening to Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix. Meanwhile in Scotland :-)
😂😂😂
Meanwhile in scotland smack and blades are rampant and the natives are restless 🙈💁
@John Barber ha ha yes
@@OdinSmilesRavensLaugh72051 he cracked a good joke. You ruined it.
@@andymclaughlin22 Matter of opinion
For most of the 70s my mother used to take my brother and I from our house outside London to Easterhouse to visit her friends at New Year. Imagine the fun the local thugs had hunting down the English boys, it was scary. We learned how to run fast...
Ben Dover aye fuck off ya bean don’t hear English names in Scotland it’s all Mac’s and Irish names
Where did u get that statistic from. Never heard so much pish, no doubt ur a brexit fanny 😁👍
@Ben Dover partly indian hahahahahahahahabababahahahahahahsbsbabsbabsbshshshahahahaha no way man aye mate jokes on us😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@keithbald5066 see this is why we all hate each other cause yees are all fannies I hes talking pish but then ye need ay come oot way some pish about brexit sorry but Marcus said it best ye dont care about the collar around yer neck just whos hawding it pipe doon n dont be wan ay they greeting face "remainer" pricks
@Ben Dover fact is your country is like half Muslim
Young men, not scared to go into the Bar L.
Sad really. Last bit, I had cadets with good guys like this man and it saved me absolutely right.
I know barlinnie has ruined a lot a lives.
I'm a taxi driver in Glasgow and even today some of these guys who were involved with the different gangs and are now "old men" still carry blades of some sort! (Just incase) ;)
my grandad was born nd lived in the gorbals, he managed to move out nd now lives in East London, got bare respect for the man
Fk me bet he wishes he was back hame
Talk properly then.
@@JustDaniel6764 alright grandad
He'd probably have chibbed ye for talking like that.
When you wore a tie and collar if you were in a gang. Could do with subtitles though.
I like the bit where the kid hits the copper, a bus goes by, and then the kid's seen being dragged off unconscious "Fell down the stairs M'lud."
The vast majority of these gangs were NOT divided by religion. YES there were some ie. The Billy Boys but as one person has already said most were just where you happened to live on a Scheme. There could even be 3 or 4 gangs in the same Scheme.
That's not to underestimate the issues in the West of Scotland with sectarianism, which was horrendous and ingrained in society.
Who remembers reading "No Mean City" about like in the Gorbals? I read it in the 70s as a kid but never knew it was written in 1935.
Aye.
Yep. The Razor King.
Where's oor Peaky Blinders show? Teddy boys kickin' aboot wi razor sewn in the lapels of their blazers.
Never read it but my dads mentioned it to me
@@colinhathaway9493 It's worth a read if you like your literature "fiction based on real life", but apart from running around carving people's faces up the worst thing the protagonist does (if my memory serves me well) is piss in the sink. Of course, for the 1930s that was utterly scandalous!
Great documentary! Thank you! ..... Wouldn't it be interesting, to see how these young people, got on, in their future lives??? I think the makers of the show, should try to track down the surviving ones, and do a documentary on what happened next! .... A bit like the uk '7 UP,' series, where a group of 7 year old kids, were filmed in, i think 1963, then every 7 years, right up to the present day! xx
Great comment, yeah, would be interesting 👍
I suspect many of them would have been in jail or dead . Stupid gang culture.
@@Actingskint Sadly, i think you may be right. xx
I was in barlinnie prison back then, but now here in Australia at 68 I am planning on starting my life at 70 going up to the tropics hunting and fishing,using my 2 pensions $40k+ margin loan @80%=$200k+ write monthly options 10-30% a year=$220-260k jogging, lift weights, work out....oh and over 170k stalkers over the years, now that's another amazing story.
@@bigups737 That's amazing! Have fun!
The Army recruited a lot of great soldiers from Easterhouse .
Ha ha my dad was in an Easterhouse gang and joined the Royal Highland Fusiliers in 1963. He was a total madman, he would nick anything that wasn't tied down.
Some people are proud of this,!!!!!!! enough said
There were 90,000 people living in the Gorbals alone a small area district close to the city centre.
I remember a group called scheme well known back in day from cranhill Glasgow was hard going growing up but wouldn't change it I've learned so much being brought up in Glasgow and the people are friendly it's drink and drugs that the problem no jobs prospects
My family is from Cranhill too
Even with half a century's hindsight, it's still impossible to generalise a single cause of Glasgow's problems. Need to bear in mind that the gangs weren't newly formed in 1967: they'd been on the go for many decades before, and had mainly been spawned by sectarian divisions, reflected in the housing/ living situations of the working class. Interesting wee film, thanks for the upload...
I always thought it was because Glaswegians were thick as shit.
I blame the weather
Skirts on men and cold knackers cant help.
Glasgow Gallus...the problem is Scots. If Scotland wasn't full of them there wouldn't be a problem
Edward Longshanks said that
My mate's granddad used to working in the Glasgow shipyards, he used to put razor blades in his jacket lapels so if anyone grabbed them they would immediately let go and he would hit them with his flat cap that had a lead weight sewn into the back of it.
your mates grand daddy sounds like he is a right action man😁
A very old tall tale
The razors in the lapels is no tall tail
Back when 17 year olds looked like still game characters
I stayed in shanwick street easterhoose, loved my stay there saw a lot of gang fights as well.
The razor gang I was in ran out of members , they kept getting stitched up.
Brings back happy memories I remember these times.
Interesting documentary, great to see progress that Glasgow has made.
Progress??
Nothing has changed in Glasgow
Aye google Moodiesburn see how the progress is working
@@justintime1307what a complete lie
@@LOLCAMz Why then, has Glasgow's Violence Reduction Unit been praised for their success & is now being considered by the Metropolitan Police in London ?
''I've never been stabbed, but I can imagine it being somewhat inconvenient.'' - Kevin Bridges 🤣🤣
You're a bright spark. Must have flourished at school.
@@markhemming318You should check out the comedian from Glasgow, he's referring to.
But he could avoid all that unpleasantness, in the current financial climate for a mere pound
I remember seeing gangs fight with hatchets, swords, golf clubs, and chains. Just a typical Saturday night ….😢😢😢😢
When i served in the army when i passed p coy we had about 5 scottish lads on the course and all of them passed theyre just headstrong people who get on with it and dont give up ,i bet the Brigade alone was about 30% scottish
Aye many Jocks in 1 Para 😂🪂✌️
During the late 70s ❤I remember seeing guys fighting with samurai swords. That was the worst, seeing people fighting was very normal. Moved to England in 1980 it all stopped,although it took some years for me to relax around new people and to trust strangers.
I met a Scots guy some 25 yrs ago, and he had been in sword fights with a gang. He was greatly surprised that he was sill alive. He was about 50 back then, so he would have been fighting in the 60s, 70s and 80s. He said they would just surprise attack a pub and wade in with their swords. He also stated that there were a no of occasions when he thought he would die.
Broke down in Queenslie in the 80s as a teenager… it was nearly 11pm 🕚, asked a girl with a pram if there was a phone box and she laughed out loud and said I might get one in Easterhouse next door but not in Queenslie 😳 I walked up to a few dozen kids hanging about and nobody spoke to me when I asked questions, they must have thought I was crazy. Flagged down a paddy wagon 👮♀️and they told me to get in the back, they took me to the AA depot that was nearby and I was relayed home to Edinburgh 😅. I hear the area is alright now 🤔
I was just being born when this was made,..... but the message is still as relevant as it was 55 years back!! ❤
50 years later in Southern England I hear 40 - something folks whining how their delivery of super-expensive tiles for their en suite will take 3 days to appear - to enhance the hideously over priced designer sanitary ware from a bathroom boutique- and how the fellas whom actually fits the things are too expensive . That’s Misery in today’s deprived society where I live. ....☹️
@@Soul_of_a_Robot Some people like Glasgow, others attack it. For the latter ones, it would be a good thing if they too buried the hatchet.
I wonder what those youngsters are doing now? Retired old men of course but it'd be interesting to see them view this documentary now.....
Dead! Bloody fried foods.
@@goalltheway-pm8xs yeap fried potatoes kill more ppl than gangs
Looks pretty rough back then, and a decade later along came heroin and made it even more bleak.
Brilliant snap shot of Glasgow and Scotand then. A lot of different elements of society seen in this. The more time goes by the more these things become priceless social history.
Glaswegian's in general are lovely people. The knife culture has and always will be part of Glasgow. I find this depressing. Although the Gallowgate is almost finished, I find it so depressing that there you still see young people with facial scars, after being cut from one side of their mouth to the next. Glasgow is a big beautiful city with impressive architecture of black and yellow sandstone. I wish the knife crime would stop and the drug problem was tackled.
Bullshit. Gangs are dead in Glasgow. There is a tiny minority everywhere, but Glasgow is an example to every other city how to deal with it. Glasgow has turned into one of the safest cities in the world.
@@brianmchugh7679 agreed man you'll only find a handful of mouthy pricks sometimes but never any real gangs with real danger.
@@brianmchugh7679 feels safe as fuck mate. Been coming to Glasgow a hell of a lot over the last six or seven years. I have friends that lived in Govanhill although they’ve moved to Paisley now. Glasgow centre feels safer than Manchester City centre where I come from for sure. Love Glasgow and will move up someday. The missus loves it also
To tackle the drug problem we need to target poverty and corruption in government.
A recent post in the Edinburgh Scotsman had given praise to a multi million concert hall development in the new town area of the city.
In the Edinburgh evening news reports of a Leith community center being closed due to lack of funding along with Nicola Sturgeon stating millions in aid to the Ukraine. With funding like that for what those corrupt politicians see as more necessary appropriation of funds how on earth can we make sure our children and society prosper.
At least in the 70/80s there had been community centers.
Keep the poorer people in poor education, separate society and keep the peasants scared of eachother and not focused on governmental crimes
@@colinhathaway9493 och aye the noo Jimmy
Disband? Brilliant!
great documentary - never understood a fucking word
Mr Orange Yeah I get you there. I could grasp what they were saying, but it wouldn't be the first time I've saw documentaries covering the same situation, but up to date in the 2000's, that have had to put subtitles up probably for the English, but I've never had a problem understanding them, apart from the odd "what the hell did he say there?" Yes had that.
Well nice to have commented back to you. Have a nice day. Cheers...Paul. (Auld Skool) Well if approaching 52 in November says it, fair enough, it's only a number, I feel and look 35!
That does my head in, I mean at least get close!...Paul.
Paul Glancy - I lived in falkirk and then Stirling for 4yrs,. So I'm only kidding mate
haha nice one fella,sectarian bollox they are Scots not Irish,They want to be Irish but sadly they never will as they are Scots,as for the little shit at 1.30 he couldn't knock his granny off the piss pot,hard bastard with a blade mind
Mr Orange and T-Mobile are you going to be a bit of a new one and only time I have a good
Orange cancel
canc el the
You should do a then N now with some of these guys ✌️💚🇬🇧
Limmy trained me to understand all of these words
Same though
They be wuds, nay 'words', ya dafty
Phar-macy?
Good to see that politicians were blaming residents for their own circumstances and lack of community facilities. Nothing has changed still no youths clubs or community centres.
14:06 kid shouting out "WANKER"! lmfao brilliant.
I don't think that's what he's saying
I think it was.
🤣 I think that's exactly what he said mate!
Yes!!!!!!....LOL
They got the community centre but never got rid of the crackpots ☹
As it happens I was a teenager in Glasgow at that time, the slums of Glasgow were filthy and overcrowded, the new flats in Easterhouse were originally welcomed, then it was realised that they were soulless, no support, no jobs. Not much has changed though standards of living have improved.
I may be wrong but I think bicycle chains were carried by gangs in the 60's, the razor gangs were from the 1950's
Poverty meant not enough money to buy food.
I would agree with you dad was born in 1932 and he always used to talk about the razor gangs. He said they used to stitch a razor blade in the peak of their caps. As much as I love the people of Glasgow I’m glad we moved to England too much violence.
@@thomasreed49 Bollocks
Dont exadrerate there was obviously enough money for food lol, Britishpeople dont starve and never have, at least not since the 1600s, possibly 1700s, even in the war nobody starved.
@@mcpartridgeboy are you serious. You plonker 😅😅
Yeah the razor gangs were at the same time as the " teddy " boys and early rock n roll.
My father worked in a tailors at the time, the gang leaders would come in for a new 3 piece suit every few weeks. They wanted a velvet lined collar, so that the motorbike chain didn't snag when drawn out. And they also wanted 2 narrow side pockets on the back of the trousers for their open razors
I was born in 442 Baltic street Glasgow went to Springfield road primary school brilliant days playing moshie playing in the swings ,the park keeper was Danny he used to bring in and sell bags of marshmallows football in the street Eddie's grocer shop kit kat cafe a mad dug called bulit denholme bakers but as we got a little older the real things became to the forefront Baltic Fleet ,Billy boys , and others and very quickly learned what feet you kicked with, my parents bless them moved out of thier I guess they knew what might lay ahead for me ,I allways remember my friends from there and pray they had a good life but I I allways remember even at a young age the razor was the weapon of choice the history of Glasgow gangs is legendary and you could make so many programmes dedicated to showing the life style of those days
Our family came from 542 Baltic Street and the local gang was the Young Baltic Fleet. Norrie was our leader and he led from the front against the Spur Tongs and San Toi.
Springfield primary and Riverside senior secondary were the schools we attended as did Pastor Jack Glass.
My Scottish mother moved to Zim in 1949. Thank the Lord !!
I bet she regrets it now
Fuckin hell if your trying to say Zimbabwe is nicer than scotland you need help
@@harryf1ashman nae shit mate 😅😂
@@OdinSmilesRavensLaugh72051 Zambia had a white president for a period. I think jocks in Africa are doing fine.
@@olamsoevik White farmers were literally killed and sexually assaulted, at one time removed from their lands by the black government, what crack are you smoking lad.
I’m a Scot from Inverness. Our accent is very different from Glaswegian but when I was young all the lads could put on a fair imitation of a Weegie accent. That accent, together with aggressively advancing scared other guys shiteless if outsiders fancied a fight !
I ran about with the Cumbie from the Gorbals in Glasgow in the Sixties I was up to all sorts and fought with the Shamrock and the Tongs and a whole lot more, I got stabbed and was slashed by a bottle, it was just part of growing up then,changed days thank God lol
I am in teaching. Brought up the hard way in London. Moved away to get a better opportunity.
I feel for these people.
This video is a great insight into how life was for a minority. Obviously, the will to survive meant sticking together.
The politicians sound shady!
But how did many turn out eventually in life?
Does life like this still exist in places like this?
You say it ( the slashing & stabbing ) was part of growing up...Was there not another way?
I imagine a lot of wasted lives as well as a lack of choice in life back then, thanks to the politics to a certain extent.
Good to know that some people made it in life but pity not all have.
A lesson learnt here in this video.
A mind ma ma shoutin Cumbie ya Bass seemingly i shouted it masel oboot 3 year old
@@john5155 Yeah. Whatever you say, you must surely know!
Ain’t gotta a F-ing clue wotcha ona bout but I’m agreein’ wit yu’r anyways!
Born Florence street , st Francis, stnlukes boys guild memories
It's like that old joke." Have you seen the new Viagra eye drops." , They make you look hard.
Funny how even in 1968 the term 'bouncer' was classed as outdated and you still hear it being said today, 50 years later 🙈
Things come and go and return and go
It BOUNCED back very quickly, did it not.
What is the current term…Door Steward ?
The pic is so real ,the thumbnail on his toes loving the action 🎬 ,brutal realty of 60s Glazzy
I've got something to say, Its better to burn out than fade away...My Scotland.
Max Marshall the chive never sleeps
17 years old , that's middle age in Scotland.
Peter Neijs lmao! Good one
Idiot
Peter Neijs ..
Peter Neijs Ah KNOW
8ightBitKid Eesturhoose
7:02 that police totally took that wee guy in an gave him a cheeky slap! From fighting and struggling to needs 2 guys jus te carry him to the pig van! That's what the police should still be able to do.
Aye, they seemed to bundle him through a set of doors then drag him back out after a few seconds. What's the betting he was given a bit of a vicious kicking, dragged away and sent on his way with a few cracked ribs and a couple of black eyes and no further action taken? Perhaps in most cases that type of rough justice worked, but how many times did it result in life changing injuries and death? Is it right that the Police should have the power to tackle violence with violence and act like thugs themselves. Just look at what that type of rough justice did to Liddle Towers....
hellfiregrowler well ye see this is the age old argument how to dish out 'justice' appropriately the police these days are a completely different beast to the police of back then the red tape alone ties the hands. Yes some police officers are bully types but not all, I spent my entire youth thinking the same old shite everyone thought "fuck the police, they're all cunts" and it was after growing up and realising the majority of them are just trying to do their job (and a difficult one too) so I think yes the police should be able to trade violence for violence, and I think the majority of situations iv heard of the police these days have dealt with the situation with professionalism because it's their job if they don't.
I respect your opinion and a very fair one too. I agree most Coppers are not pricks but sadly there still are a fair few that are, just look at policing at the football. They are, as you say earning a crust to feed their families so are no different to any other working man and woman and we would be in a very bad way without an effective law and order system. Although most people on the receiving and of police brutality have probably "asked for it" or "deserved" it, I just feel a system where its acceptable for the Police to be able to beat people leads us into the realms of an oppressive police state we all agree (I imagine) would be a regressive step and a threat to our own civil liberties.
hellfiregrowler I grew up in a fairly isolated town in south west Scotland in the 80's and 90's I myself know of people and have been the recipient of a swift dig in the ribs by a pissed off police officer iv known of people receiving the dreaded mattress punishment were they'd truncheon ye threw a mattress (apparently leaves less of a bruise) and I can tell ye we did deserve it. However I've also lived in Glasgow for 10 year or so in my adult life and dealt with the police on a few different occasions and it was a very different experience altogether due to the fact I wasn't a wee fanny and I dealt out as much respect as I was given and I was promptly and proverbialy slapped on the wrist and told te bugger off as they had better things to do. And I promptly buggered off on my way, happy and not arrested. Now you can view the same stereotyping through a few different professions bouncers and bar staff for instance or even the armed forces on occasion, are viewed as being bully types or angry and short tempered now iv worked as both bar staff and in the military and I know a good few door staff and away from work they or I are usually very friendly people but while working arguably deal with more fannys than your other types of work. So it makes you a bit bitter and short because drunk people or angry idiots are very volatile people and are very very difficult do deal with, so I doth my cap to all these professions for every day they don't slap some titt for standing shouting profanities right in your face. So let's not give them too hard a time, because you can always say "I'd deal with it this way" however until your face to face with these issues on a daily basis you never truly know how you would actually deal with it.
who will bring justice when police break laws?
The volume needs to be turned up a bit. ☝
17 going on 50
Wonder how many years that blokes done since 68.
I was leader of the Wilkinson Swords
I remember Glasgow in the 70s . Am from Ayrshire and went to Rangers Cletic games with my mates .. I never was into football and never cared who won . Sometimes I was in rangers end somethings in the Celtic end .. As my mates were . However all I ever remember was violence violence violence fighting fighting fighting ..... Changed days now . I got caught up in fights for nothing! For just being in the wrong place at the wrong time .. That's my memories of Glasgow
We liked the ould ''GROUP DISORDERS'' in Belfast too.
Wee Joes' logic is pure gang mentality " if ( the guy we just plunged) he is lying screaming on the ground he's not dead so he's ok and no need to worry" … " if he is screaming he's ok" …
Joe isn’t right in the heed.
Im a scott born in Australia, thanx for posting so I can study my heritage.
You can start by spelling Scot properly 😉
your not a scott
2018 there are still Teams, Gangs running in Glasgow and around Scotland today, but not as bad as numerous as they were in the 60s and 70s. I know I was there.
With regard to the woman saying working class teenagers are treated the same as middle class. The middle classes in Glasgow will not give the working class the steam off of their piss. They are completely invested in those who have moved to Glasgow from other countries and those who are actually from here can bounce. Those in charge of the funding and allocation in many cases have a tenuous link to Glasgow and indeed Scotland, they go from city to city and in some cases country to country following the money and changing those cities to how they like them which is absolutely nothing what they looked like twenty years previous demographic wise. This applies across politics, the media, academia, publishing, the Arts, entertainment etc. Treacherous barstewards.
I'm from the Midlands -
I love Glasgow, they work hard and they play hard.
They same goes for a lot of Northern towns....
Newcatle, Manchester, Leeds.
Etc etc.
Way better than the South imo.
best documentary title ever!
There are some entertaining moments in this video:
6:33 - one punch knockout.
8:53 - the dumbass says anyone can safely walk, or walk safely, down any street in Glasgow, somehow I don't think that was the case.
14:04 - my favourite part of the video - wanker.
Weren't you killed off by the Brigton Derry Billy Boys?
Can you imagine if someone at 8.53 decides to attack him, and his police mates. You was saying , sir?
Danny the parky in Baltic street swi gs was a legend.
Brilliant piece of Film, is there other films with more on the 'Blackhill mob' or the 'Pollok Bundy'?
There were about 5-6 different sections in Pollock J.B, Not 1 mob, there were Bundy, Krew, Priestie, Bushwakers etc
Stargazers Nation™ PYT ya bass
Cumbies. Sabres, cutlasses etc.
@@TheLostHistoryChannelTKTC Bushwackers
Looking back I would suggest that much of the social troubles in Glasow back then (and today) was down to the crude hatred between the Glasgow Rangers (Protestant) and Glasgow Celtic (Catholic) football fans (tribes)!!
1960's Political Correctness - bouncer = dance floor supervisor; gang violence = group disorder. And so the mess started.
Watching documentaries likes this is very educational......"the best a man can get" really.
Strange days for sure.
PEACE.
“As long as he’s still screaming it’s ok.”
I’m not sure the screamer would agree...
Its awrite.. if hes no screaming they'll phone an ambulance right away...
how generous 🙈
Considering the social problems and poverty of the times these gang members are much more smart and well dressed compared with youths involved in gang violence these days. They all looked like Mods too which surprised me as I imagined the gangs of the era in Glasgow to have been Rockers
14:07 Ah the traditional Glasgow welcome! :)
🤣🤣🤣
enjoyed the documentary
TREASURE HUNTING SCOTLAND ADVENTURES lol
Great int it m8 ?
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"THE ONLY SOLUTION IS THAT SOMEBODY CARES" - WHAT A FINE HUMAN BEING - BLESS HIM 4 HIS STRENGTH OF CHARACTER AGUS WISDOM..👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🥇🥇🎄💚🎄🇨🇮✌🇬🇧✌🇺🇸✌💫💥🐕👋👍
LOVE IS THE ANSWER...
As Bailey Anderson said”I talk to gangsters a they’ll take them for a ride”
I lived in cranhill during this bullshit.
13:05 - Another satisfied customer of the NHS dental program.
Don't forget in those days every street had a hundred kids, schools were swamped with 35 to a class. Every inner city had gangs.
25:00 treat them as human beings, they will respond. A lesson the society still needs to learn about lads. Stop painting them as 'toxic', start looking at them as humans with different needs.
Some people are born bad and stay bad their whole life, no matter how they're treated.
@@flipper2392 Some, not all.
I was born in Glasgow but moved to Corby many years ago. I would go back often for holidays and stay with my grandparents, when I was seventeen I went to stay t my aunt’s with my boyfriend in Easter house it was high rise buildings everywhere my aunt and her family were scared to go out at night surely that awful they had to live like that that was in the early 1970