Amazing film, I pass under the Union line at Saltmarket on my way to work, and it's never occurred to me that there's half a building next to the railway line.
That was a very handy fire in 2011, just in time for the developers to make the park and rid the city of paddies market for the 2014 games, no nothing to see here move along move along. Very good video by the way
I’ve said over the last 10/15 years about the amount fires glasgow has. Art schoolx2 college bar high st (was that the right name) longest spot where theres been a pub. In scotland planners had their plans knocked back bc of the pub then there was it fire, went through a stage where clubs caught fire. There was the building that done the drawings for ships but student accommodation for chinese had to be built(that 1 took a few attempts) but they had build a similar building on the spot. Unreal no one has seriously questioned this and we’ve just swallowed it
same with the clutha getting a helicopter dropped on it the school of art building twice the shack nightclub the bin lorry hitting the millenium hotel that they showed in the world war z movie that was actually fimed on cochrane street, the real bin lorry went up QUEENS street funny that. Then after they shut off that road for tables for their fanny boy that owns wetherspoon counting house on the corner that is an old bank.
OMG, 1st time I discovered your channel and I really liked it as a Turkish fan of Glasgow. This city and its lovely people deserve the best. I believe Glasgow and its magnificent people will emerge victorious from this economic hardship. Glasgow has enormous resilience.
Great video and many plaudits due for all the hardwork and all the research .. It’s Nice seeing Glasgow in its original forms .. We should strive to keep the heritage !
Thank you, that was another great video . I have already sent you comments from France , but this one is From Tahiti a island in the French Polynésie , where my daughter lives with her family and I am on holiday for six weeks , the island is a real paradise blue sea , palm trees ,exotic flowers growing everywhere , but don’t be envious the heat is tremendous , every day the sun beats down at 34 degrees in the shade !!!!! What I would give to be in Glasgow right now and breath in some cold air instead of warm air . Sorry for going on like the old Biddy that I am .
I'm amazed I've never seen this channel before - born and bred weegie here but now lives in Australia. It is clear when you see it the building was altered the geometry is all wrong Instant subscribe👍
That map work at the end was amazing! Glaswegian expat here living in Sài Gòn and love your channel. I appreciate the dedication and always look forward to learning something new about good auld glesga
Excellent video, thank you. I worked in nearby Trongate (C&As) in 1972/73, so knew some of this area. Glasgow is indeed an astonishing city, I loved living there.
I used to get my school trousers in C&A. I talk about it in my Memories of the 80's video and I asked if anybody remembers the mechanical ride on horse outside the cafe.
@@AstonishingGlasgow Sorry I don't recall the horse! I doubt our Manager would have allowed such a frivolous thing (!) at that time - his earlier career was fighting the Mau Mau in Kenya! For the first time since I left the City, I visited the store two years ago on a day trip to Glasgow, now a "T J Hughes" as you will know. It was amazingly eerie walking around the same huge premises with different merchandise and staff, 50 years later!
You're channel popped up as a yt random recommendation & they did good! Lanarkshire lass & Glasgow is my city, love learning about the history. Subscribed & looking forward to checking out you're previous videos too! ❤
In my home town, Manchester libarys has a on line archive of photos from the past and is fascinating to see what stood and know longer exist and your video is a prime example.
We have the same with The Virtual Mitchell but this wasnt the interesting direction to look so all the pictures are of different features or they are outside this building looking the other way.
I could never get my head around how the levels and roads worked in that area, you’ve done a great job explaining it all! Regarding that vent into the train tunnel, do you know just where the tunnel is located? On the map, it looks like it runs directly under the road, but I wonder how deep it is at this point. Can you actually see any sign of trains passing?
The Argyle line was built by cut and cover and pretty much follows the line of Argyle street and London road. A lot of people dont realise that when they are on Argyle street they are effectively walking on a bridge as the street is supported by girders over the railway.
At present the line is used for stock transfers between the North Clyde lines and the railways south of the Clyde. But if Glasgow Crossrail ever gets built, this line would gain a second life as it would allow services from say Aberdeen to Ayr without changing at Glasgow, with a new station built at Glasgow Cross. Great video. If you want a suggestion for a good video, have a look at Bridgeton Central, Glasgow’s forgotten rail terminus that led a ghost existence as a rail depot….
I was going to ask about this line, I see the shiny rails diverting approaching high street station and always wondered what used them. Thanks for the great information.
How good would a direct line from the north to Glasgow Airport be. I’m sure it would be greatly used and bring Glasgow Airport more in line with Edinburgh.
I could see this line from my desk in the office I used to work in - always wondered how you could sometimes go days at a time without seeing a train on it.
Just found you and first time seeing the channel! It's been a couple of years since I've been back, but maybe this year and to do some photography for the first time. I shall be watching more. Thanks and well done.
Dave, Excellent work. Please accept this small donation from my Dad, Benny Morgan, 90 years old , and loves nothing more than an empire biscuit and watching your videos with me in his nursing home. 😊
Wow, thank you and a big thanks to Benny, I am so glad you enjoy my wee videos and a cup of tea and an empire biscuit is the perfect accompaniment yo each episode. Take care and best wishes to you and your Dad, Dave.
I'll stick to an empire biscuit, I'm not used to the luxury of a Tunnock and I fear it would spoil my man on the street persona if I was seen being so decadent :-D Thank you very much again for your support mate.
Very interesting. That Georgian building cut through by the railways is something I never knew about. I suppose it shows the power the railway had at that time.
It surprises me more that the railway didnt just flatten the whole building. The Caledonian railway flattened the whole village of Grahamston so they had a huge amount of power but chose to only cut a slice out of this building.
Loved the episode. Your research and illustrative graphics on the Union line were brilliant. Just goes to show like now, in the 1800s no consideration was given to Georgian architecture 😢
Some old buildings in Glasgow were built in sections and not actually completed. One of the 3 big SCWS buildings on Morrison street was like that.... one corner never completed and a modern building erected later (on Laidlaw street corner) but the one on London road was definitely chopped because it goes through the centre section.
Nice work mate, I especially enjoyed seeing the old picture of George Square. 👍 Oh how I wish today's council would return it back to at least some modicum of its former glory. 🙁 It's a scandal now.
Another amazing episode I pas by these places on my way to or from work mostly when there’s good weather as it’s longer for me I didn’t realise about oldest iron bridge and sewage canal at all That park is probably one of most dead places that been modernised this century even with good weather nothing really happens there which is sad Quite often I wonder if it’s possible this bit of railway could be transformed for a bicycle path Thanks and have a lovely Monday 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks mate. They cant turn it into a bike path as it is still an active railway line. No passenger services but they do move freight over it and passenger trains when they are moved to the depot for maintenance.
Interesting video. I think it is a shame that there is no train station in this area. I find it surprising that the area around Gallowgate, Glasgow Green, Barrowlands etc doesn't have a station. I can imagine that it would be popular if one was there. Maybe one day the Glasgow Crossrail will realise it. I know it has at times been in plans for an Eastern underground extension, but due to the uniqueness of the gauge used I heard that it would be even more challenging to extend, and undergrounds are challenging at the best of times, so utilising the existing lines seems a more liekly option. In terms of a train going through a building, if you take the train into Blackfriars in London it quite literally goes through a building, in so much that the building is build either side below and above the tracks and there is just a gap for the trains to get though. Further, in China, I forget where, a train literally goes through an office and takes up much of an upper floor of a large office building. Also there was the infamous incident in Paris of the runaway train that went through a building, but let's hope nothing like that happens again.
When this was a passenger railway there was a station here. The platforms were above the Untouchables wallpaper shop on the other side of the gallowgate.
@@AstonishingGlasgow Yeah I heard there was a station earlier but didn't know exactly where it was. Thanks mate! Would be nice if at some point there was another one. I have a few times wanted to go to East End of central Glasgow and Argyll Street or High Street is about as near as you can get on a train, which are so near to Central and Queen St. it isn't worth the journey unless you were on that line already.
There used to be a railway station in Tollcross. When I was a kid we used to play on the abandoned railway. They pulled down the railway bridge over Braidfauld St to allow for redevelopment. There was a lot of vacant land around the railway.
Hats off Sir. In my humble opinion to our Resident Historian you're very good with Paint Shop. Thanks again for the much love historical aspects of our favorite city.
If you look at the facade of the building closely it's pretty evident one half has been sliced off, the pediment (?) is just left hanging there. The rooms next to the railway must have interesting layouts.
If you look closely at the cafe you will see that this is also part of the same building. Rather than cutting the building in half they chopped out a section to build the railway and left the parts either side intact.
If you work out who supplied the building stone for the railway supports at the townhouse, you could try to locate the order from the railway company, then you could determine the year the building was halved. Maybe...
My city fkn frustrates me! We had a massive tram network and 3rd oldest underground in the world and never extended.. baffles the mind! If we still had the trams there would be no LEZ nonsense! Plus the underground should have been extended.. our city council have always been backwards and corrupt. And who the fk builds a motorway through the centre of a city?! Demolishing communities as it went.. the potential our great city had was wasted! St Enoch train station was also demolished The tram network alone is a tragedy - cities like Edinburgh Manchester Sheffield all have their trams. Ours even had its own electricity separate from the grid
That whole area of Glasgow from there up the hill to the Cathedral, ought to be a tourist destination of pre-Victorian historic buildings. But we’ve always flattened things, it seems.
I have been here my whole life and when I start researching these videos I usually end up down a rabbit Warren of all new things I didn't know. It's a great city with some astonishing history that needs to be remembered.
u can still see the mollin diner burn . if u look over the wall right hand side of the old great eastern hotel on duke st u can see it . just at the lights
Does anyone else think the shorter building with the chip shop on the other side of the bridge is perhaps the remains of the other third of the building? It looks to be the same stone and same window arrangements on the 1st floor.
I walk on High Street daily, it is really sad to see a street with so much charm and potential just left...broken. All the way up from the Cathedral and winding down to the Tollboth and onwards to Glasgow Green it could be a winding road of quaint shops, community etc. but it is just a thoroughfare, like the skin holding Merchant City in.
There was a brilliant article recently in the Glasgow Bell about how the council is letting down the businesses on the old section of the high street. Outsourcing, privatisation and landlordism are blights on the city!
my wee ma took me to fishers to get sme truly cheap school clothes ,still a great memory mate.getting dragged down with my four brothers by our beautiful wee ma👌👍🤗🙏
to me it looks like the Georgian building with the railway through continues at a reduced height on the other side of the railway, best seen at 10:00 on the video, I may be wrong and you may have already noticed it
It is the same building, the railway goes right through the middle. Until the 1980's the part on the side with the cafe had two extra stories above it and was still its original height.
Canning Street? I didn't see a Canning street and the earliest map with what is now London Road has it marked as London street unless I'm missing something?
@@AstonishingGlasgowChange the NLS Outline to OS 1:1 million - 1:2.5K, 1900s and you’ll see it where part of London Road is now. Not a very long stretch but it was definitely there.
A tad "Anorak " I know but the train you show would not have travelled that line as its a non electrified section of the Glasgow network , known as the " Missing Link " which they have talked about electrifying for quite a few years now .
I was flexing my poetic licence as I think the 303s were amazing. They were the trains I grew up using and I can't believe Glasgow didn't save one for the transport museum.
I could'nt fit this into the video but there was a proposal a few years ago to build Glasgow's answer to New York's Highline park up there until it was pointed out it is still an active railway line. Its used for goods traffic and for moving passenger stock to the maintenance depot.
@AstonishingGlasgow ahh. Very interesting. I've never seen it in use before. Probably a 'blink n you'll miss it' thing. In use,only occasionally,but still very essential,I see. Gorbals flats were a budget New York skyline I suppose 😃
It is still an active line and used for freight and rolling stock movements. I think the Royal Scot rail tour uses the line at times. I have seen trains use it but its not a regular occurance.
It's pretty much completely under ground or encased in concrete now but it's still there. It does see daylight for a short stretch just off the High Street and flows into the clyde near the high court.
In 1996 i was a passenger on an airport interchange bus headed for the city, approximately 15 minutes into our journey, the bus driver turned to me and asked in a broad Glasweigan accent "do you know the way to central station?"
Amazing film, I pass under the Union line at Saltmarket on my way to work, and it's never occurred to me that there's half a building next to the railway line.
That was a very handy fire in 2011, just in time for the developers to make the park and rid the city of paddies market for the 2014 games, no nothing to see here move along move along. Very good video by the way
I think you're spot on Ray
My thoughts too. These handy fires continue to this day.
I’ve said over the last 10/15 years about the amount fires glasgow has. Art schoolx2 college bar high st (was that the right name) longest spot where theres been a pub. In scotland planners had their plans knocked back bc of the pub then there was it fire, went through a stage where clubs caught fire. There was the building that done the drawings for ships but student accommodation for chinese had to be built(that 1 took a few attempts) but they had build a similar building on the spot. Unreal no one has seriously questioned this and we’ve just swallowed it
Off course it happens all the time in glasgow
same with the clutha getting a helicopter dropped on it
the school of art building twice
the shack nightclub
the bin lorry hitting the millenium hotel that they showed in the world war z movie that was actually fimed on cochrane street, the real bin lorry went up QUEENS street funny that. Then after they shut off that road for tables for their fanny boy that owns wetherspoon counting house on the corner that is an old bank.
OMG, 1st time I discovered your channel and I really liked it as a Turkish fan of Glasgow. This city and its lovely people deserve the best. I believe Glasgow and its magnificent people will emerge victorious from this economic hardship. Glasgow has enormous resilience.
Great video and many plaudits due for all the hardwork and all the research .. It’s Nice seeing Glasgow in its original forms .. We should strive to keep the heritage !
This video is brilliant. The historical research is tremendous. I learned a lot from this, so thanks very much.
Thank you, that was another great video . I have already sent you comments from France , but this one is From Tahiti a island in the French Polynésie , where my daughter lives with her family and I am on holiday for six weeks , the island is a real paradise blue sea , palm trees ,exotic flowers growing everywhere , but don’t be envious the heat is tremendous , every day the sun beats down at 34 degrees in the shade !!!!! What I would give to be in Glasgow right now and breath in some cold air instead of warm air . Sorry for going on like the old Biddy that I am .
I'm amazed I've never seen this channel before - born and bred weegie here but now lives in Australia. It is clear when you see it the building was altered the geometry is all wrong Instant subscribe👍
That map work at the end was amazing!
Glaswegian expat here living in Sài Gòn and love your channel. I appreciate the dedication and always look forward to learning something new about good auld glesga
You mean immigrate not ex.pat
What a gem of a channel. Many thanks
Thanks, that is brilliant.
Brilliant video, well done.
Brilliant stuff mate. Great channel. Always learn stuff from your videos, despite being born here!
Channel going from strength to strength. Great video
Really enjoyed that. My old friend John Russell was from Whiteinche and is sadly missed. Best wishes from Slovenija. 👍
I never knew about that Georgian building, superb!
I love your storytelling!!!
Excellent video. I'm glad this popped up on my feed. Now subbed. 👌🏻
Thanks David, very interesting as usual. 👍
Fantastic video again!
really interesting - as always - thanks!
Excellent video, thank you. I worked in nearby Trongate (C&As) in 1972/73, so knew some of this area. Glasgow is indeed an astonishing city, I loved living there.
I used to get my school trousers in C&A. I talk about it in my Memories of the 80's video and I asked if anybody remembers the mechanical ride on horse outside the cafe.
@@AstonishingGlasgow Sorry I don't recall the horse! I doubt our Manager would have allowed such a frivolous thing (!) at that time - his earlier career was fighting the Mau Mau in Kenya! For the first time since I left the City, I visited the store two years ago on a day trip to Glasgow, now a "T J Hughes" as you will know. It was amazingly eerie walking around the same huge premises with different merchandise and staff, 50 years later!
That sparks a memory. Going to C¥nts and Are5eh0les with my mum when I was wee.
Superb.
Interesting video! Didnt know all this, cheers for making. Subbed
You were a great tour guide back in Sept! Dont miss a video now
I always wondered why a railway line passed through as it did! Really interesting video, thanks
Thanks!
You're channel popped up as a yt random recommendation & they did good! Lanarkshire lass & Glasgow is my city, love learning about the history. Subscribed & looking forward to checking out you're previous videos too! ❤
In my home town, Manchester libarys has a on line archive of photos from the past and is fascinating to see what stood and know longer exist and your video is a prime example.
We have the same with The Virtual Mitchell but this wasnt the interesting direction to look so all the pictures are of different features or they are outside this building looking the other way.
I could never get my head around how the levels and roads worked in that area, you’ve done a great job explaining it all! Regarding that vent into the train tunnel, do you know just where the tunnel is located? On the map, it looks like it runs directly under the road, but I wonder how deep it is at this point. Can you actually see any sign of trains passing?
The Argyle line was built by cut and cover and pretty much follows the line of Argyle street and London road. A lot of people dont realise that when they are on Argyle street they are effectively walking on a bridge as the street is supported by girders over the railway.
Excellent video! You just popped up on my feed, watched, liked and subscribed!
Greetings from a Swede here in Glasgow, since 2001! 🍻
At present the line is used for stock transfers between the North Clyde lines and the railways south of the Clyde. But if Glasgow Crossrail ever gets built, this line would gain a second life as it would allow services from say Aberdeen to Ayr without changing at Glasgow, with a new station built at Glasgow Cross.
Great video. If you want a suggestion for a good video, have a look at Bridgeton Central, Glasgow’s forgotten rail terminus that led a ghost existence as a rail depot….
I was going to ask about this line, I see the shiny rails diverting approaching high street station and always wondered what used them. Thanks for the great information.
How good would a direct line from the north to Glasgow Airport be. I’m sure it would be greatly used and bring Glasgow Airport more in line with Edinburgh.
I could see this line from my desk in the office I used to work in - always wondered how you could sometimes go days at a time without seeing a train on it.
Loved the two lads with the ladder, off to do a wee bit of B&E no doubt !
Thanks
Just found you and first time seeing the channel! It's been a couple of years since I've been back, but maybe this year and to do some photography for the first time. I shall be watching more. Thanks and well done.
Every one of these videos is a wee gem. Many Thanks!
👍Nice video. I had spotted that blocked off archway and wondered what the history was.
You are bloody brilliant. So good.
Thanks for clearing that up, very entertaining video, love it
Dave, Excellent work. Please accept this small donation from my Dad, Benny Morgan, 90 years old , and loves nothing more than an empire biscuit and watching your videos with me in his nursing home. 😊
Wow, thank you and a big thanks to Benny, I am so glad you enjoy my wee videos and a cup of tea and an empire biscuit is the perfect accompaniment yo each episode. Take care and best wishes to you and your Dad, Dave.
Brilliant. And I thought I knew Glasgow 👍
For Empire biscuits only, well maybe a tunnocks teacake or caramel wafer if you insist.
I'll stick to an empire biscuit, I'm not used to the luxury of a Tunnock and I fear it would spoil my man on the street persona if I was seen being so decadent :-D Thank you very much again for your support mate.
Very interesting.
That Georgian building cut through by the railways is something I never knew about. I suppose it shows the power the railway had at that time.
It surprises me more that the railway didnt just flatten the whole building. The Caledonian railway flattened the whole village of Grahamston so they had a huge amount of power but chose to only cut a slice out of this building.
Brilliant video. 👍🙏🏻
Very well researched.
Just found your channel. Superb!
Used to stay in that georgian building at 48 London Road 30 years ago. Had no idea!
Interesting stuff.
Great job! ♥
Loved the episode. Your research and illustrative graphics on the Union line were brilliant. Just goes to show like now, in the 1800s no consideration was given to Georgian architecture 😢
Thank you for explaining what the tunnel was…. I’ve always wondered what it was.
I hope they keep the park 🙏
Why am I only now discovering this channel. I'm definitely subscribing.
Lots of mysterious fires in Glasgow. Where student accommodation seems to pop up immediately afterwards.
I pass by here all the time on the way to a gig. Gonnae tell my dad the next time about the iron bridge.
Some old buildings in Glasgow were built in sections and not actually completed. One of the 3 big SCWS buildings on Morrison street was like that.... one corner never completed and a modern building erected later (on Laidlaw street corner) but the one on London road was definitely chopped because it goes through the centre section.
Nice work mate, I especially enjoyed seeing the old picture of George Square. 👍 Oh how I wish today's council would return it back to at least some modicum of its former glory. 🙁 It's a scandal now.
Wait until you hear their plans. The square will be fenced off soon for a "redesign" and I think it will make us nostalgic for the current square.
Ooofff...over 24k views in one day...well done
Cracking channel.
SUBSCRIBED AND LIKED!!
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Actual PTSD from that train announcement. 4 years into and out of central for uni
Fascinating.
And I thought you did a great job of 'photoshopping'.
Thank you.
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good vid .one about crookston castle be interesting.
Thanks and a few episodes ago I talk about Mary Queen of Scots links to Glasgow and I cover Crookston castles history in that episode.
Another amazing episode I pas by these places on my way to or from work mostly when there’s good weather as it’s longer for me
I didn’t realise about oldest iron bridge and sewage canal at all
That park is probably one of most dead places that been modernised this century even with good weather nothing really happens there which is sad
Quite often I wonder if it’s possible this bit of railway could be transformed for a bicycle path
Thanks and have a lovely Monday 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks mate. They cant turn it into a bike path as it is still an active railway line. No passenger services but they do move freight over it and passenger trains when they are moved to the depot for maintenance.
@ thanks for your response I’ve seen one single train in 10 y but I’m there only occasionally
Too many cycle paths, not enough railways…
Interesting video. I think it is a shame that there is no train station in this area. I find it surprising that the area around Gallowgate, Glasgow Green, Barrowlands etc doesn't have a station. I can imagine that it would be popular if one was there. Maybe one day the Glasgow Crossrail will realise it. I know it has at times been in plans for an Eastern underground extension, but due to the uniqueness of the gauge used I heard that it would be even more challenging to extend, and undergrounds are challenging at the best of times, so utilising the existing lines seems a more liekly option.
In terms of a train going through a building, if you take the train into Blackfriars in London it quite literally goes through a building, in so much that the building is build either side below and above the tracks and there is just a gap for the trains to get though. Further, in China, I forget where, a train literally goes through an office and takes up much of an upper floor of a large office building. Also there was the infamous incident in Paris of the runaway train that went through a building, but let's hope nothing like that happens again.
When this was a passenger railway there was a station here. The platforms were above the Untouchables wallpaper shop on the other side of the gallowgate.
@@AstonishingGlasgow Yeah I heard there was a station earlier but didn't know exactly where it was. Thanks mate! Would be nice if at some point there was another one. I have a few times wanted to go to East End of central Glasgow and Argyll Street or High Street is about as near as you can get on a train, which are so near to Central and Queen St. it isn't worth the journey unless you were on that line already.
There used to be a railway station in Tollcross. When I was a kid we used to play on the abandoned railway. They pulled down the railway bridge over Braidfauld St to allow for redevelopment. There was a lot of vacant land around the railway.
Hats off Sir. In my humble opinion to our Resident Historian you're very good with Paint Shop. Thanks again for the much love historical aspects of our favorite city.
I'd hate to think how much a double nougat costs these days lol. Great content for an exiled Glaswegian
I can just about stretch to a double nougat but I can only dream of an oyster.
@@AstonishingGlasgow Haha. My go to always
Don't forget the raspberry sauce!
Grim but cleaner than what Thames Water supplies us with today.
First class video and very informative 👍
Interesting have travelled the root many days ,noticed the building. But never understood
I'd love to know what those windows behind the heras fence next to the old path entrance in barras park were part of.
Great video though
If you look at the facade of the building closely it's pretty evident one half has been sliced off, the pediment (?) is just left hanging there. The rooms next to the railway must have interesting layouts.
If you look closely at the cafe you will see that this is also part of the same building. Rather than cutting the building in half they chopped out a section to build the railway and left the parts either side intact.
If you work out who supplied the building stone for the railway supports at the townhouse, you could try to locate the order from the railway company, then you could determine the year the building was halved. Maybe...
For a pint or two....even Tennents! 😉😆😂
Thank you mate, I really apriciate it.
@AstonishingGlasgow
Always a pleasure mukka, keep 'em videos coming! 🍻
That was a crime demolishing the pub on High Street 😮
The old one that looked like an undertakers, what the actual heck 😭
My city fkn frustrates me! We had a massive tram network and 3rd oldest underground in the world and never extended.. baffles the mind! If we still had the trams there would be no LEZ nonsense! Plus the underground should have been extended.. our city council have always been backwards and corrupt. And who the fk builds a motorway through the centre of a city?! Demolishing communities as it went.. the potential our great city had was wasted! St Enoch train station was also demolished
The tram network alone is a tragedy - cities like Edinburgh Manchester Sheffield all have their trams. Ours even had its own electricity separate from the grid
That whole area of Glasgow from there up the hill to the Cathedral, ought to be a tourist destination of pre-Victorian historic buildings. But we’ve always flattened things, it seems.
Lived in Glasgow for years and never knew half of this stuff.
I have been here my whole life and when I start researching these videos I usually end up down a rabbit Warren of all new things I didn't know. It's a great city with some astonishing history that needs to be remembered.
City looks great at 7min 22sec, not so pretty now. Would be interesting to see inside that Georgian building where the bridge cuts through.
u can still see the mollin diner burn . if u look over the wall right hand side of the old great eastern hotel on duke st u can see it . just at the lights
Would like to know about Parliamentary Rd
Yep I remember Fishers dep store .. every school uniform time
I used to buy size5 bladder at a wee shop just under the railway bridge at Glasgow cross.
Does anyone else think the shorter building with the chip shop on the other side of the bridge is perhaps the remains of the other third of the building? It looks to be the same stone and same window arrangements on the 1st floor.
It is the same building. That's what I think is amazing, that they cut a chanel through the middle.
I walk on High Street daily, it is really sad to see a street with so much charm and potential just left...broken. All the way up from the Cathedral and winding down to the Tollboth and onwards to Glasgow Green it could be a winding road of quaint shops, community etc. but it is just a thoroughfare, like the skin holding Merchant City in.
There was a brilliant article recently in the Glasgow Bell about how the council is letting down the businesses on the old section of the high street. Outsourcing, privatisation and landlordism are blights on the city!
Does anyone else remember Fishers dept store and the fish market?
Sure do and used to get clothes from it when I was a kid.
my wee ma took me to fishers to get sme truly cheap school clothes ,still a great memory mate.getting dragged down with my four brothers by our beautiful wee ma👌👍🤗🙏
Yes and I still remember Mr Cullen, the wee man who would collect money from my Ma every Friday
Fishers? Never heard of it and I'm 59.
I remember Fisher's, although we never shopped there. Why not I wonder?
to me it looks like the Georgian building with the railway through continues at a reduced height on the other side of the railway, best seen at 10:00 on the video, I may be wrong and you may have already noticed it
It is the same building, the railway goes right through the middle. Until the 1980's the part on the side with the cafe had two extra stories above it and was still its original height.
The Vald'oro use to do a cracking deep fried pizza.
Now I know what I want for dinner.
Sad about that band path
When did Canning Street become part of London Road? The railway tunnel is actually still named as 'Canning Street Tunnel' by Network Rail.
Canning Street? I didn't see a Canning street and the earliest map with what is now London Road has it marked as London street unless I'm missing something?
@@AstonishingGlasgowChange the NLS Outline to OS 1:1 million - 1:2.5K, 1900s and you’ll see it where part of London Road is now. Not a very long stretch but it was definitely there.
A tad "Anorak " I know but the train you show would not have travelled that line as its a non electrified section of the Glasgow network , known as the " Missing Link " which they have talked about electrifying for quite a few years now .
I was flexing my poetic licence as I think the 303s were amazing. They were the trains I grew up using and I can't believe Glasgow didn't save one for the transport museum.
@AstonishingGlasgow well flexed , but you're correct, one should have been preserved, cheers .
I was expecting it to be about Allison Street,Govanhell. 😉. I enjoyed seeing the rare footage from the train cab of the mysterious dead rail line.
I could'nt fit this into the video but there was a proposal a few years ago to build Glasgow's answer to New York's Highline park up there until it was pointed out it is still an active railway line. Its used for goods traffic and for moving passenger stock to the maintenance depot.
@AstonishingGlasgow ahh. Very interesting. I've never seen it in use before. Probably a 'blink n you'll miss it' thing. In use,only occasionally,but still very essential,I see. Gorbals flats were a budget New York skyline I suppose 😃
Excellent video I have subscribed. Would you be interested in doing a theatres of Glasgow video
That would be fun. I could track down all those theatres which have now gone. 👍
@AstonishingGlasgow yes please and if you need help with stories don't hesitate to get in touch
Everywhere, where trains go into buildings which we strangely call stations...
They don't often build stations 100 years before the railway then knock bits down for the tracks to go through.
@@AstonishingGlasgow buildings get repurposed and remodelled A LOT.
And everyone thinks there is only one underground line in Glasgow. There is actually three.
Yes...my ma had an account at fisher's
My da worked at fish market
Is that rail bridge still used? I've never seen a train go over it, I don't think.
It is still an active line and used for freight and rolling stock movements. I think the Royal Scot rail tour uses the line at times. I have seen trains use it but its not a regular occurance.
@@AstonishingGlasgow Thanks! A very interesting video for me because I lived in Ingram St until fairly recently.
0:59 that ladders defos been pinched out an electricians van 😂😂
That's his step ladder. His biological ladder left when he was only three 😅
Where is the burn now a days? Does it still flow underground or has it dried up?
It's pretty much completely under ground or encased in concrete now but it's still there. It does see daylight for a short stretch just off the High Street and flows into the clyde near the high court.
That's amazing, off to maps to have a look, thank you, your videos are fantastic 😊
Glasgow is a scary place, I would advise you give it a wee skip and visit Stirling instead - the gateway to the north!
Er... Sauchiehall Street? Great vid once again!
Thanks and what about Sauchiehall street?
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Yes got lots of clothes in Fishers in 60's then round to get fresh fish
In 1996 i was a passenger on an airport interchange bus headed for the city, approximately 15 minutes into our journey, the bus driver turned to me and asked in a broad Glasweigan accent "do you know the way to central station?"
As long as he didn't try and drive down commerce street or Kilbirnie street. There have been a few bridge strikes down that way the past few years.
@@AstonishingGlasgowluckily it was a single decker
Did the rich folk have to bend down to come out of St Andrew's Square out from under that bridge? Seems awfy low!
It maybe looks low on video but it's about 8 foot off the ground.
@@AstonishingGlasgowFair enough. Thanks. Cracking video!