East Kilbride Town Centre Memories
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Memories of the East Kilbride Town Centre as it used to be. Most of these pictures are not mine, they've been found online through various sources. I've tried to credit where possible, but if you find one of your pictures on here and you're not credited, please let me know and I'll do so ASAFP.
The reason I've used annotations instead of burning text onto the pictures is for two reasons: First, because you can turn them off to get a really good look at the pictures, and secondly so the slideshow can evolve with time. If I've got something wrong, or I've forgotten something, or YOU have a memory you'd like to add, I can keep adding to it with additional annotations.
Thanks for checking it out. If you've not seen the clip of BBC Scotland's "The Mad Death", which features some great footage of the The Plaza from 1981, do so. There are links inside the video.
Also, if you happen to have any old pictures of East Kilbride, and the Centre in particular, I'd love to see them. Send me a message through You Tube, or leave a comment and I'll get back to you.
Thanks!
I remember growing up as a kid and going to the original Victors chip shop right at the tunnel as it was for a bag of chips for 50p
Victor's done great Pizzas as well.🍕
The village chippy was fab too ..
I think Hudsons was probably called "Memory Lane" when that nighttime shot was taken. Great wee vid, some cracking memories. I agree with all the other posters, EK has became a souless place due to the town centre being all undercover.
My best memory was buying a 7"single or an album from Impulse record shop. Happy days when life was easier.
Is The Murray Bar still there? I grew up in the Murray, but moved to Atlanta USA in 1988. Always want to go back there for a few pints in the Murray Bar. The chippy next door was great as well.
@@Sydopath yes both are still there
@@petermcwilliams7581 I’ll go there next March and see if any of the late 1970s Friday night club are still around 👍🍺👍
@@Sydopath l will meet you 😆
@@petermcwilliams7581 Ideal. I wonder if the Murray Road and Cullen Lane look the same. You get the beers in, I’ll get the fish suppers 🐠
The shops in Prince's mall are a disgrace today.
brilliant think the place looked better back then,still remember the excitement of going down the town centre as a kid,a feeling i,m sure i ll never feel again.
excellent work i remember downtown miami well ! the safeway was next to halfords !
oh and the last picture is the building of princes mall - the big clocks still there, i seen it today :)
I was brought up here in the late 50's. Was a great place then, lots of green, open spaces. Not sure what it's like now.
Osymandus still some green, but it's being slowly eaten away by developers.
Beatties was a cracking shop when i was a kid.
Thanks for this, a great piece of History
East Kilbride Will always Be Legendary (:
i miss going to Bullochs and watching them slice the gammon in that guillotine machine they had. i used to spend my days watching that machine all day long through the window. i still love gammon but its not the same out of the sealed packs in the supermarkets..
Reading this comment made me smile, i loved the gammon outta Bullochs and the old fashioned bell that rang when you went through the door. Bullochs was also my first experience of nutella, they had little tubs you got with your wee wooden spoon 🤣 Grab some sweeties then next door to Drive in Movies to rent The Goonies! Those were the days. Shame EK is not the same anymore.
@@Pickles10 Yeah it was cool going up the stairs in Drivin' Movies
The place you don't recognize is the Arcade and It used to house East Kilbride Music Centre where I worked with Brian Robertson who later went on to play with Thin Lizzy and Motorhead!
The shop you asked about on the left in the Alexandria Arcade is "The Four A's", which stood for Alexandra Arcade Auto Accessories. I worked there twice, once as a "YOPper" in 1982 then again in 86/87. I was working there when they started "Phase 4"...ie the new Olympia development. We came into work one morning to find they'd built a brick wall at the top of the arcade with just a narrow corridor through to 'The Forum' pub, where we used to go for lunch.
The other shops in the shot are Haute Coiffeur, which became Marina's hairdressing salon, Bell Book and Candle was further down and was still there in the late 80s. At the bottom right (out of shot) was the hardware store "Timbercrafts" which later became Cafe Dakko and then Peaches. The shops before the 4A's out of shot were The Pet Shop and Evans Carpets (I think).
East Kilbride news was there also when Lorraine Kelly wrote for the paper
PS
Stan's old man,was the camera man for the film--"The Mad Death"--filmed in EK.
Fun fact my dad designed the new bus station roof
Taxi company was either TOA or EKCO, Hudson's used to be "memory lane" I used to play on "these things" outside what was Safeway back then in the early 70's and Halfords was on the corner. The Mushroom became "Downtown Miami" A place I frequented when the bouncers let me in :) and met some lovely ladies there. At 6:50 the very large RS McColls is on the left. It was massive and after closing down it was replaced by Rumbelows(now defunct). 7:16 "The Tash" was there at that time and I believe "The Gemini" was upstairs where the bookies is now. Back then Granada was a big TV rental company and a repair man lived across the street from us who fixed any of our 3 broken channels :). His works car was 1 of very few in the street. It would be good to see some pictures of the fountain that used to be outside Bairds/ Arnotts / What Every's that used to get fairy liquid poured in it and obviously suffer the effects haha.
The Olympia ballroom---scene of many a young drunken escapade--and many a fumbling(short romance)
Don't knock EK--better housing and facilities than many areas of the country..
30-40 years ago---sod all happened on a Sunday.
You've never 'ad it so good!
Brills vid---Ta.
Remember the photo booth ,,,Thu and Sunday disco
Around 1975-77 I worked after school and Saturday/Sunday's in the 4 A's (4:44) with my dad John and the owners John and Renee Hattle and their big Alsatian guard dog Sheba. Looking at some of the other images brings back mixed memories.
i was born in 1987 and i remember the big rock things in princes square - not just old fogies :P
downtown miami has reopened in the old what every's building too
I remember the old 18 bus coming back from the centre to greenhills getting trashed every friday night after Rumours (Crystals) back in the late 80s. Every window kicked out and every seat thrown out. Nowadays everyone's too busy playing on computers and Playstations to go out. Its a disgrace..
Vaguely remember the town centre in some of these shots. Shops closed on a Sunday?! Sounds like an idea we should bring back!
Wow, I'd almost forgot about a lot of things! I remember my mum used to leave me on the stones so she could go shopping! And I used to love going into Halfords with the smell of the new bikes!
It's weird, I can't think how the old layout would fit into the new centre, it's feels so... small. Or maybe it was just me being small that the place felt huge.
the night club in the mushroom was indeed called downhill miami, but the mushroom picture shown looks like its is showing Whispers and across the walkway was HJays...this was converted into downhill and the mushroom was the entrance and stairs up. Had many a scrap in that bit with the bouncers back in the day. Managed to put my had through the glass panel one night but it was okay as I went round to macburgers for a chille dip and a can of red stripe. No camera's in those days...just as well
Fantastic stuff! The mushroom building wasn't actually a bar itself. It was in the entrance, cloakroom and toilets of Downtown Miami, the bar was in the main building linked to the mushroom via a "tunnel". At least since I started going in 1992. I've heard it was a bar and cafe in the early 80s before it was a nightclub.
The Princes Mall was covered over in 1983 so would guess the photo was from late '82 or 1983.
Loved the old ek,brings back great memories,worked in rs mcolls back
in '82' on a yts.
Very well done there. Would be nice to see some up to date shots overlaid so you can see how much it's changed.
7.10min
The view is from the bus station at your back looking down to the mushroom/downtown miami in the distance. Granada TV and Courts on the RHS.
remember the clothes shop called rigout across from m&s getting stay press trousers. they where the days
The taxi rank was used by two firms echo taxis & toa taxis. I remember going dancing with my girlfriend she used to go to downtown miami & i used to go to splash.
The shop your were asking about (next to th pet shop)was called 4A's and it sold car spares ??? closed in 1990.
you gotta love east kilbride!
No it's a hell hole.
that mushroom building - did that not become offices of somesort after downtown miami?
only 22, so I only have vaugue recollections of Princes Square before it was all covered - used to remember the guys selling socks and lighters (for some random reason)
anyway, back to the point, I seem to remember the mushroom building being some sort of office place in the late 80s/ early-mid 90s - prior to the covering of the square
may be getting mixed up with Edin. House that was in the far corner tho.
I remember the square in the picture at 6:46. There used to be an off license there with staind glass windows. I believe Lorraine Kelly's mother used to work in there
I appreciate the styling now even if I thought it was pretty naff at the time. The dancing in the mushroom was called Downtown Miami!
That was good! i have a few good old Ek pics, with thefountain!
The car park at 4.15 is still there is it not? The one down passed the taxi rank at the bus station I think, then again, I was born in '89 so I didn't see any of this stuff haha
So many memories for me too. I loved Princes Square when the weather was good. They should NEVER have covered that square. The black and white pics of the Princes Mall were taken by an American visiting the town in the 70's, and his website was very crtical of East Kilbride. I can't remember the site it was on.
Wasn't the mall built in the mid 80s?
@ok10
There was a quarry at Churchill ave. behind the old council offices.
would anyone happen to have any footage of the library at the shopping center from about 99/00? my mum and i were filmed for something but she can't remember what it was-thanks!
@TonyBananas101 .round about 1982/3 the Indians who owened the resturant ,,opened the round mushroom bit as a boozer..it rocked ..
Where can i get a copy of the olympia picture?
I'm 40 so I remember all this very well. Although it was all ugly, 60's architectural cliches, there was a sense of identity to the place. Now the town centre is just like any other shopping centre in Britain. It has that second-hand American mall feel and we all know that means soul-less corporate crap. EK has sadly bought into the Americanisation of the world. East Kilbride doesn't exist as it used to. Depressing innit? Poor ol' Kilbyland.
Fuckin hell hole. Best thing I ever done was move away from there.
5:14 where was this alleyway again?
It was the Olympia Arcade, closed down a long time ago
I also have a plastic bag, with the iconic K logo! AMAZING EH?
I agree th old centre looks better now its crap all empty shops and cold with no heart
No actually the new town centre looks 10 times better. It's just that there's more empty shops now. It still looks better now.
that was good.
@kylephantom4 i thank i know scott allan does he have a brother called david allan?
I’m from eastkillbride
So am I. It's a hell hole. Glad I don't live there now.
I don't like the 'new' shopping centre, it has no heart. Walking from the entrance at Sainsburys all the way to Debenhams is like being inside a fridge as its all cold white plastic the whole way.
dont even recognise some bits
@102smiller
Bill Barclay,I believe--"Cool" art teacher--had a beard, and was known as (not to his face!)--Jesus.
Ok guy
yes it really is
huh?
mind the old days chasing all the glesga mob back home kilby rule haha
i live in EK...its shit
Grant Hiddleston ikr
A really hate east Kilbride
I wouldn't worry about it, it probably hates you too.
Leanne Brown I'm with you, place makes me feel depressed.
impulse records, where my record collection started lol, also where i got my large picture of Debbie Harry for my bedroom wall,,,lol
same here sxcept my picture was of bonnie tyler
Going thro this sure brings back the memories. I lived in West Mains from about 1957. Moved to Ayrshire around 1975. I certainly saw lots of changes but what me made me write this was the image of the covered arcade. I bought a watch in the jewellers there in 1980 just before we moved to Canada, and that was a long time ago. The few times I've been back I found it a very depressing place
Strangs the jeweller was a pretty expensive place in the arcade.
I used to stay in Greenhill's and my maim memory of going to the town centre was watching Airwolf through Glen's Hutchisons, Robertson and Stepek window, on about 20 tellies haha.. This would have been about 87/88. Me and my old man did this every Saturday whilst my mum got the messages.. Happy Days
barry snell OMG I USED TO LIVE IN GREEN JILLS
I think that the 'Hudsons' pic was from early to mid 80s, when 'MacBurger' and the original Memory Lane were in there before! Excellent memories. EK rocked then. Not like the piece of sh*t nedville it is nowadays.
Bet you didn't know this. The Olympia had rock band AC/DC play there before they hit the big time.
brilliant stuff i remember hating getting dragged into remnant kings as a youngster with my mum so boring! remember glens hutchisons robertsons and stepek the tv place think it was next to capital or was that tandys
Saturday morning,bus from Murray Square(if we couldn't be arsed to walk,--raining) Ali or his Asian oppo,the bus conductors,would not charge me and Stan.(good guys) We'd go swimming and then to the "Cinema",for the matinee.,and would spend the rest of the day scuffin' around the town centre(uncovered)and shops.
Great times!
great pics, got some myself from the 60's not taken by me obviously, will try and put them together
Does any one remember the "HOUSE of JOHNSON " furniture shop my late father worked there., and then there was Bairds and an old family friend worked there in the seventies "GARY MUNN " where are you now ?
Nah m8,upstairs at the mushroom was the nite club down town miami.Could walk round it in 2 minutes ha ha
Also remember going to EK sports in 1987 to meet Super Ally and get his autograph.
Talk about a concrete jungle.🙁🙁
Wonderful nostalgia, thanks! I remember some of this all too well!!
Those are just magic photos. I lived there as a very young child in 1970 to 1972. The number of times I got lost and taken home by the police from that town centre. One thing I remember that I have never seen on any photos is the big pool and fountain just in the area off the car park where the bus station was later built. This pool was later filled in as a flower bed in about 1971. Thanks for posting
it was a estate agents
The building work shown at 7:58 is indeed Princes Mall being covered. The photo was taken from between the bus station & just outside where the present doors are. At the top of the wall on the right, you can see the old clock that was part of the building. That was only taken away very recently.
I worked on the m&s site all those years ago, the store manager was Mr Roy
Did he not also work with Basil Brush?
at 8.02 it looks as if it just outside were new look- like were the vodaphone shop is not sure- is now as thats all i can think were the white piller things are !
@ok10
I used to look for eggs(mainly pigeons) in the old castle,when it only had 2 walls--there was a programme on years ago about the guy who did it up.The nearest field to me was 150 metres away(Murray).
Aye, big changes.
woah, nice, remmeber the centre being dead and all shops cloes on sundays :)
before it was Hudsons it was called Something Else and was opened by Geordie Best
@TheSunzuki1983 meh, i moved away anyway
that was mental ! i miss the stone things lol
hope u do a part 2
can anyone tell me the name of this area - 5:20
I've always remembered this part. Shut down a few years ago. Want to unlock more memories. Thanks.
Sorry mate shut down a few years ago
It was at the big swirly path wea the blue railing
@@seanmcnamara6892 yeah! Do you know where it lead into the centre? Like the other enterance?
It just took you in the bit we're greggs was
@@seanmcnamara6892 ahhh right. Was a nice wee hall
still a dump,soon the busiest job centre in scotland
lets be serious,
thats a lie