I just found this! My dad was the crazy American guy who came over & helped design & build this! Love it! Thanks for sharing this! We have such great memories of living there then.
It was very sad that strathclydes buses became greater glasgow and then first glasgow in the 1990s. Whatever happened to the wee happy bus services for example the m5 service to rutherglen.
Like the video mate my dad was a driver for kelvin past his test at old Kilpatrick in 90 then worked at the clarkston depot. Used to love going there with him as a wane good memories.👍
5 years on from when I last viewed this fantastic record of the demise of a shipyard...seeing how the site has been developed (so far!) makes this all the more valuable as a permament resource of what "used to be." Superb photo collection.
This might be a weird one, but would it be possible to get a copy of this on DVD or something, as RU-vid isn't the best resolution. I've been watching it endlessly while trying to make a new bandit screen for LA1204 at the GVVT and a lot of the details of the insides of the buses are hard to find anywhere else!
@@dalmuir100 if you're ever visiting the GVVT, or you could post-it: Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust, 76 Fordneuk Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow G40 3AH. Let me know if you'd like me to pay for the postage!
@@kennethhay9304 ok i'll post the dvd to that address and you dont have to pay for postage. by the way is bridgeton vintage garage open during the week
I drove buses out of this depot for a year. 1979. It was the end of the conductor and the introducion of exact fare. Before that I was a terrible driver. Always late and short on my money, which was deducted from my wages. Tremendous folk though.
i lived in Salisbury place all my youth , my house wasn’t full of damp , it looks like a depressing place to live , but it really wasn’t , as kids we’d go down the woods , play football on the Reckie , Tommy the ice cream van would come , and we’d all sit at the square . i loved growing up there , had the best friends i could wish for , who im still friends with to this day , 45yrs later .
This is magic. I grew up near this depot and always wanted a look inside, all I ever got was a peak over the fences. This is the next best thing. Thank you
Without dialogue in takes on a sombre note, like it was inevitable. It was not this is a modern continuation of the highland clearance ( ethnic cleansing). While our shipyard's were being destroyed. Money from the Scots was pouring into London. To date more than 350000000. Three hundred and 50 billion pounds sterling. The world over even wee countries were investing in shipbuilding. England included Barrow and Furness, Camel laird etc. Ironically the new Glasgow Subway was built in Liverpool area with a subsidies from the Scots, instead of being built in the Caley Springburn locomotive works who had over 100 years of experience.
Compete or die. It's as simple as that, so never mind your daft numbers and conspiracy theories. I lived on Glasgow Road for about 10 years and my dad was a welder in the shipyards, I watched the QE2 grow out of the ground behind my tenement when I was a child (just where these concrete office blocks are in some of the shots). I despised the Red Clyde and the way that the trade unions tried to tell the employers how to go about their business with a refusal to modernise. Meanwhile all these wee countries you were talking about did just that. Great video by the way, I am a very proud Bankie with lots of memories of the place.
Look at how those days look compared to now everyone had class and a sense of humour and there was more to do then there's no class these days like there was back then
never ever realised that there was a back of old kirkpatrick depot , mostly only saw the front and maybe once or twice drove in and out the garage and the canteen going by the number of bus not out it's a sunday lol. As 2187 was always at airdrie conner street for as long i i can remember it was there on loan .
You never really hear of English hardships, but plenty for us Scots and Irish throughout history. Great the wee images of lived in property with turf roofing. Love to visit these parts and maybe just will one day.
Ireland is now a Godless selfish place where there is nearly a murder every day of the week and we call ourselves "mature" by killing our unborn children in the abortion clinics in our hospitals paid for by the hard pressed Irish taxpayer, almost 7,000 killings last year and the numbers are rising. The Ireland of the past was no Utopia and many thing happened that should never have happened but we lost our soul the day they stood in the grounds of Dublin castle and cheered at the result of the referendum which would allow the destruction of unborn life under any circumstances.
