Cheers Ed, I have loved city architecture walking tours since High School History class. It was an adventure I have continually enjoyed during my travels around both North America and Europe. This video certainly adds to my memories and appreciation of the wonderful builders of the past. Thank you for sharing. Lynn in Naples FL😎
Many thanks Ian. These ones take a bit more work and generally totally occupy my thoughts for about a week.The videos about Glasgow certainly seem far more popular than those of me cavorting through the countryside.
Thank you Ed brilliant as usual, you were in my neck of the woods (Shawlands) and I got goosebumps at the old photographs, many years ago I remember a programme called "Look up" and it was all about the style, culture and craftmanship of Glasgow buildings that no-one sees because they do not look up. Looking forward to the next one🤠
As an joiner of some vintage these videos remind me of many old buildings I've worked on from the parliament in london to the mackintosh in glasgow with many in between. Preservation is becoming a lost art, and the skills not passed down.
Absolutely. While it's easy to focus on the stone buildings and sculpture, the interior photos clearly show the same level of craftsmanship in the wooden counter and other areas.
@@EdExploresScotland Another building I worked on is the Crystal Palace pub, very interesting and important building regarding plate glass and cast iron construction. Worth a look into.
Brilliant video Ed, thanks for making this. The Savings Banks came to my attention a year or two ago, walking around Glasgow I started to notice them, the one near Cowcaddens Underground is stunning. Cash is being phased out to a digital currency, I don't know if physical money will ever completely disappear.
@@EdExploresScotland I think there is people living in the Cowcaddens building. The savings bank on Merchant city which used to be Jigsaw clothes shop is laying empty, it is a beautiful building.
Stumbled upon you by accident and glad I did. So sad to see what ‘progress’ has done to our once proud city. Keep the videos coming Ed. 😊 Walking tour???
Another enjoyable and very informative video thanks Ed. My wife and I live in NZ and and I have been fortunate to have been to the Counting House on 3 or 4 occasions when visiting my wife's family in Scotland. I have always been impressed by the architecture of that building. Thanks for sharing. The research, time and effort put into your videos is always appreciated.
@EdExploresScotland Hi Ed, I guess it's hard to please everyone. However, I do enjoy your videos. While I'm a New Zealander my wife is from Dumbarton. I find the history of Scotland so incredibly interesting.
12:47 the dome most have been damaged by the recent shenanigans, I had no idea that it existed, we really are destroying so many amazing buildings and it's so sad. thanks Ed
Ed, I worked on the massive refurbishment of the Clydesdale Bank buildings which go from St Vincent Street, up along Buchanan Street and then along West George Street, the buildings are all interlinked and are a maze inside! This was back in the late 90's. Great video btw and I love that you've brought these buildings to the fore.
Cheers Greig. I so wanted to film inside what used to be the Clydesdale Bank in St Vincent Place. Taken over by Virgin and now no longer in use. I seem to recall fossils in the stone of the floor. Stunning building.
@@EdExploresScotland I didn't even realise it wasn't the Clydesdale bank anymore till you pointed out all but one in your video were no more! Yes, the inside of these interlinked buildings really were a marvel of architecture, they all had their own distinct designs and you always knew which part of the inner buildings you were in dependent on the plaster or columns or granite and I think I too remember the fossils of the floor.
Wow, excellent video, I love these beautiful old buildings and your commentaries, thank you, Eddy. Such a lot you put into each video. (bows and courtseys). Mx
A great big thank you for taking all the time and trouble to make this video, so enjoyable particularly appreciated the "Brace yourself" warning cause that was a shocker. I just cant imagine the meeting where the architects were selling the product of " so here's the old building" and" this is what we are replacing it with". Just beyond words. A 4 year old could have done better. So happy to have you there pal to help me understand what I have been so un aware of, my next visit tae Glesgae wull be so much the better fur it.
Thank you. I didn't know that. In many ways this video was similar to my video about old Edinburgh breweries, in that instead of saying, 'Was that a brewery?' I was saying, 'Was that a bank?' Whole city centre bristles with fine old bank buildings.
Thanks John. You know, I did in fact have Parkhead Cross on my list, but there was just a lot of travelling around the city for this one and I omitted a few locations. Should probably have at least mentionend it, because you're absolutely right, a cracking building.
Thanks for another fascinating video Eddy. When I'm in the city centre, I always like to look up, and marvel at the architecture above the store fronts. I've got loads of pics, including the Bank at Trongate, which is more like a castle to me, and the one on Ingram st. I appreciate all the research and information, and even providing the excellent music! I am now a firm fan, since watched your video of Mount Stuart, as I'll be going there later this year.
Hi Ed, Great video, fantastic old buildings. At least they're pleasing to look at compared to the big glass bendy things. I think I remember a big glass building in London that was melting caurs on the street if the sun was in the wrong place.
Great video Ed. Some gorgeous old buildings. My local bank is for the chop next month. It’s a lovely old building. I wonder what it will be replaced with.. if anything 😢
Certainly worth preserving those buildings and it's a shame that in a lot of cases Glasgow City Council isn't great at doing that, but I'm not sure I'm nostalgic about these buildings once having been banks and now instead being e.g. restaurants, cafés, supermarkets, HOUSING, etc. Banking has gone a lot more digital nowadays and I think a lot of people prefer tapping their card (or even ApplePay) all the time rather than having to go to branch to withdraw cash at the till every so often. Not to mention a lot of these banks were crucial to financing British colonialism and slave trade so I'm not exactly lamenting them having less physical presence in our cities nowadays. Also in the case of the Ingram Street monstrosity, it was RBS themselves who tore down the beautiful Victorian building and replaced it with a concrete carbuncle, so banks weren't necessarily champions of preservation and aesthetics either.
Would anyone know if the Fraser's Suite building frontage on the corner of Trongate and Albion St was built for the City of Glasgow Bank? (which spectacularly went bust).
It's a good question Fraser. I almost included it in the video. It does appear to have been a bank, but I just don't know if it was built for that bank.
@@EdExploresScotland it is either that building or was on the opposite corner. When my granda was in his cups he would curse about that bank and his dad who had lost the family fortune by investing in it. Ah well what's for won't go by you as they say.
Love the idea the Baby Boomers are the last generation that remembers old Glasgow. Things like trams and trolley buses. Pre motorways and the Kingston Bridge. Midweek half days for shopping in certain areas. Polis houses and firemen living above the fire station. Every railway station being manned and railway porters. The Clyde being a working port and Renfrew Airport.
It's incredible the number of buildings in the city centre that were once banks. In many ways these financial institutions created the Glasgow that we know today.
Wh3n i was a teenager, there were hindreds of shops in every street, we had three little shops, a d cashing ip on Saturday night, we had to put money in tto a bank n8ght safe, or your iwn safe,
The craftsmanship, the excellence/no compromise in the Quality of these buildings, unappreciated and left to decay.....sinful. In their place..... Brutalist Concrete/ Soviet Era soulless mediocrity to glass and steel excuses for "Architecture". Mediocrity....Lazy. As a Builder, Historical Restoration Specialist, of "a certain age" my response to this tragedy sounds more and more like "Get Off My Lawn"!
We knew how to build stuff in the old days. These days we can't even construct a glass structure without any number of windows falling off and landing in the street.
Ed, I believe this is your finest work yet . Absolutely outstanding. Thank you,Ian
Cheers Ed,
I have loved city architecture walking tours since High School History class. It was an adventure I have continually enjoyed during my travels around both North America and Europe. This video certainly adds to my memories and appreciation of the wonderful builders of the past. Thank you for sharing.
Lynn in Naples FL😎
Many thanks Ian. These ones take a bit more work and generally totally occupy my thoughts for about a week.The videos about Glasgow certainly seem far more popular than those of me cavorting through the countryside.
Thanks Lynn.
Our parents would be horrified if they saw what has happened to these wonderful buildings and our country.🏴
Another good one.
Cheers Charles.
@7.00 Goodguy 😅🤣😂 Not long to 10 thousand subs Ed.Well Done.
Cheers Andy. Only a matter of time before people on the street are required to bow and curtsy before me.
@@EdExploresScotland 😆😅
Glasgow is my favorite city in Scotland.
Some beautiful buildings torn down as you say to be replaced by monstrosities. I can't think of any city council in Europe that would allow that.
Great subject fascinating
Thanks June.
Thank you Ed brilliant as usual, you were in my neck of the woods (Shawlands) and I got goosebumps at the old photographs, many years ago I remember a programme called "Look up" and it was all about the style, culture and craftmanship of Glasgow buildings that no-one sees because they do not look up.
Looking forward to the next one🤠
Thanks Edward. You're absolutely right. All we have to do is look to see the beauty all around us.
Another great video edd Thank you ole the best from peter Batex🙏
Thank you Peter.
Thnx Eddie was a pleasure to watch and some of your other ones 👍
Thank you.
Another great video edd👍 the counting house in george sqaure. One of my favourite haunts👍😂
Thank you.
As an joiner of some vintage these videos remind me of many old buildings I've worked on from the parliament in london to the mackintosh in glasgow with many in between. Preservation is becoming a lost art, and the skills not passed down.
Absolutely. While it's easy to focus on the stone buildings and sculpture, the interior photos clearly show the same level of craftsmanship in the wooden counter and other areas.
@@EdExploresScotland Another building I worked on is the Crystal Palace pub, very interesting and important building regarding plate glass and cast iron construction. Worth a look into.
Brilliant video Ed, thanks for making this. The Savings Banks came to my attention a year or two ago, walking around Glasgow I started to notice them, the one near Cowcaddens Underground is stunning. Cash is being phased out to a digital currency, I don't know if physical money will ever completely disappear.
Yes, the bank building near Cowcaddens is stunning. Sad to see it just sitting there unused.
@@EdExploresScotland I think there is people living in the Cowcaddens building. The savings bank on Merchant city which used to be Jigsaw clothes shop is laying empty, it is a beautiful building.
Stumbled upon you by accident and glad I did. So sad to see what ‘progress’ has done to our once proud city. Keep the videos coming Ed. 😊
Walking tour???
Cheers Ellen. Certainly good to see many successful walking tours in Glasgow these days.
Another enjoyable and very informative video thanks Ed.
My wife and I live in NZ and and I have been fortunate to have been to the Counting House on 3 or 4 occasions when visiting my wife's family in Scotland. I have always been impressed by the architecture of that building.
Thanks for sharing. The research, time and effort put into your videos is always appreciated.
Thanks Bryce. Sometimes these videos work and sometimes they don't. Always an element of luck involved.
@EdExploresScotland Hi Ed, I guess it's hard to please everyone. However, I do enjoy your videos. While I'm a New Zealander my wife is from Dumbarton. I find the history of Scotland so incredibly interesting.
Great watch & listen, appreciated thanks Sir.
Thank you.
12:47 the dome most have been damaged by the recent shenanigans, I had no idea that it existed, we really are destroying so many amazing buildings and it's so sad. thanks Ed
Nice to see that building still there and in use.
Brilliant video! The videos really help me appreciate my surroundings in GLA when I’m in the city. Thanks for bringing such great productions to us.
Thank you. Glasgow is certainly full of stunning architecture.
Ed, I worked on the massive refurbishment of the Clydesdale Bank buildings which go from St Vincent Street, up along Buchanan Street and then along West George Street, the buildings are all interlinked and are a maze inside! This was back in the late 90's. Great video btw and I love that you've brought these buildings to the fore.
Cheers Greig. I so wanted to film inside what used to be the Clydesdale Bank in St Vincent Place. Taken over by Virgin and now no longer in use. I seem to recall fossils in the stone of the floor. Stunning building.
@@EdExploresScotland I didn't even realise it wasn't the Clydesdale bank anymore till you pointed out all but one in your video were no more! Yes, the inside of these interlinked buildings really were a marvel of architecture, they all had their own distinct designs and you always knew which part of the inner buildings you were in dependent on the plaster or columns or granite and I think I too remember the fossils of the floor.
Thanks
Many thanks Peter.
Been out and about recently and follwed a few of your footsteps, good on you for pointing out stuff thats on many folks doorsteps. Keep on.
Cheers. 👍
Tremendous video Ed. I worked for The Clydesdale Bank.
Wow, excellent video, I love these beautiful old buildings and your commentaries, thank you, Eddy. Such a lot you put into each video. (bows and courtseys). Mx
Thanks Mairi.
A great big thank you for taking all the time and trouble to make this video, so enjoyable particularly appreciated the "Brace yourself" warning cause that was a shocker. I just cant imagine the meeting where the architects were selling the product of " so here's the old building" and" this is what we are replacing it with". Just beyond words. A 4 year old could have done better.
So happy to have you there pal to help me understand what I have been so un aware of, my next visit tae Glesgae wull be so much the better fur it.
Thanks guys.
Thanks for a very enjoyable video Ed.
Thank you. I enjoyed making it.
wonderful and insightful 😁
Brilliant video Eddie, Miller and Carter on st Vincent street is an absolutely stunning building. Still got the old vault downstairs.
Thank you. I didn't know that. In many ways this video was similar to my video about old Edinburgh breweries, in that instead of saying, 'Was that a brewery?' I was saying, 'Was that a bank?' Whole city centre bristles with fine old bank buildings.
Loved this. So much history. We owe so much.
Thank you.
Aye its sad indeed how things have changed give me the auld days back anytime thanks again Ed for this video 🎥.
I suppose it wasn't all a bed of roses in the old days, but my goodness could we build buildings!
@@EdExploresScotland your 100% right there.
Brilliant video, thank you , found that really interesting 👍🏻
Thank you Carolyn.
Another cracking video about Glasgow banks. I was surprised though, you didn't visit Parkhead Cross where Glasgow savings bank arcitecture is superb
Thanks John. You know, I did in fact have Parkhead Cross on my list, but there was just a lot of travelling around the city for this one and I omitted a few locations. Should probably have at least mentionend it, because you're absolutely right, a cracking building.
Thanks for another fascinating video Eddy. When I'm in the city centre, I always like to look up, and marvel at the architecture above the store fronts. I've got loads of pics, including the Bank at Trongate, which is more like a castle to me, and the one on Ingram st. I appreciate all the research and information, and even providing the excellent music! I am now a firm fan, since watched your video of Mount Stuart, as I'll be going there later this year.
Cheers Anne. So much architectural beauty above us, yet most folk seem glued to their mobiles.
Great video Eddie.
Hi if that was London the banks would be cleaned up, and all would be dandy.
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Saw you out on location filming in Govan for this video. Excellent work again from our boy eddy burns!
Cheers Esme. 👍
That was my Royal BoS branch at George's Cross 1989
Hi Ed, Great video, fantastic old buildings. At least they're pleasing to look at compared to the big glass bendy things. I think I remember a big glass building in London that was melting caurs on the street if the sun was in the wrong place.
Cheers Colin.
Great video thanks
Thank you.
Another great documentry there Eddie. Thanks
Cheers Colin.
Great video Ed. Some gorgeous old buildings. My local bank is for the chop next month. It’s a lovely old building. I wonder what it will be replaced with.. if anything 😢
Cheers Alan. Banks are vanishing at a heck of a rate.
Certainly worth preserving those buildings and it's a shame that in a lot of cases Glasgow City Council isn't great at doing that, but I'm not sure I'm nostalgic about these buildings once having been banks and now instead being e.g. restaurants, cafés, supermarkets, HOUSING, etc. Banking has gone a lot more digital nowadays and I think a lot of people prefer tapping their card (or even ApplePay) all the time rather than having to go to branch to withdraw cash at the till every so often. Not to mention a lot of these banks were crucial to financing British colonialism and slave trade so I'm not exactly lamenting them having less physical presence in our cities nowadays. Also in the case of the Ingram Street monstrosity, it was RBS themselves who tore down the beautiful Victorian building and replaced it with a concrete carbuncle, so banks weren't necessarily champions of preservation and aesthetics either.
Would anyone know if the Fraser's Suite building frontage on the corner of Trongate and Albion St was built for the City of Glasgow Bank? (which spectacularly went bust).
It's a good question Fraser. I almost included it in the video. It does appear to have been a bank, but I just don't know if it was built for that bank.
@@EdExploresScotland it is either that building or was on the opposite corner. When my granda was in his cups he would curse about that bank and his dad who had lost the family fortune by investing in it. Ah well what's for won't go by you as they say.
Love the idea the Baby Boomers are the last generation that remembers old Glasgow. Things like trams and trolley buses.
Pre motorways and the Kingston Bridge.
Midweek half days for shopping in certain areas.
Polis houses and firemen living above the fire station.
Every railway station being manned and railway porters.
The Clyde being a working port and Renfrew Airport.
And chicken feet in among the sawdust of a butcher's shop floor.
The Apple store in Buchannan street is a old bank.
It's incredible the number of buildings in the city centre that were once banks. In many ways these financial institutions created the Glasgow that we know today.
How did they finance building these buildings?
Provie cheques thanks Ed
Thanks have a pie and a pint on me Eddie.
Many thanks Alastair.
Don't know if you've seen the channel glasgow photographs. I think you would find it interesting ❤
I'll check it out.
Wh3n i was a teenager, there were hindreds of shops in every street, we had three little shops, a d cashing ip on Saturday night, we had to put money in tto a bank n8ght safe, or your iwn safe,
The craftsmanship, the excellence/no compromise in the Quality of these buildings, unappreciated and left to decay.....sinful. In their place..... Brutalist Concrete/ Soviet Era soulless mediocrity to glass and steel excuses for "Architecture". Mediocrity....Lazy.
As a Builder, Historical Restoration Specialist, of "a certain age" my response to this tragedy sounds more and more like "Get Off My Lawn"!
We knew how to build stuff in the old days. These days we can't even construct a glass structure without any number of windows falling off and landing in the street.