CRAIGMILLAR - Down But Not Out - 1984 

I was 16 in 1984 cutting about Edinburgh. Never went near this scheme but I knew characters just like those lads in Broomhouse and Wester Hailes. Started work as a factory labourer that year. Managed to get into university seven years later and have done okay since. There's always a way out if you work at it and have a wee bit savvy.

I lived in wauchope place till 1966 I loved craigmillar we left when I was 11yrs old through no choice of our own but had some great friends and great memories 👍

My Dad was brought up here and my Gran and Grandad lived in Newcraighall, it was a pretty scary place but to be fair I never actually had any bother as in spite of appearances there were a lot of decent folk living there

Helen Crummy, was an exceptional individual. Steve Burgess, met him for the first time in 1966. Started as a welfare officer for the Edinburgh children's welfare (as it was once called) department. David Brown, he was a cool, likable individual. Gavin Strang...He spoke up for the production of "I Claudius" at one of his public meetings. Believed in what he was doing for Craigmillar. Need more of his calibre today. Today? In one way or another, the Edinburgh council is corrupt.

Tbf criagmiller and niddrie has tryed its best to make a effort in its area and made Huge changes and yes there is a few that still make the area bad but we are not the only place with issues

Lot of people had the same problems every where in the country.. Growing up in the 80s & the 70s were hard time's.. I know because I was one of them..

A wonderful trip back in time.

I can remember before Kinnaird Park was built and the 14 bus went down to terminus at Newcraighall before the bridge. The drinkers used to come out of the miners club and thought it okay to board the bus without paying a penny. Seats were thrown out the top deck emergency exit as a source of entertainment. Good luck to any of the drivers who were on the 2317, 2337 or 2357 departures as it wasn't a pleasant experience and they had no protection.

Bring back memories they old buildings

"We the city council......" at 13:00 He certainly dosen't have to live without. What people were not listening to was that the lack of employment was and still is a huge issue for many areas not just Craigmillar. When people have no self worth due to circumstances outwith their control it is not easy to live.

We make some of America’s ghettos look like paradise

I grew up in niddrie/Craigmillar back then & I loved it.Davy brown,my auld man put him on his arse in newcraighall miners club in the late 80's lol..YNT

Note the white/silver rim on the peak of that copper's cap to denote his rank.

@24:30 - Oh, fucking brilliant ! Can you just imagine that right outside your window ??

ls there a copy of 'Growing Up in Craigmillar'? Would love to see it, l mind all them laddies from back then, l was 14/15 but was in residential school, the guy with the tash was always more mature than his pals were. x :)

The place was rough, it still is as some guy was murdered there as recently as last Thursday but these people are a product of their environment! As for the councillors back then they were as thick as shit and very ignorant as are todays with regard the green agenda and spaces for people lie under the guise of covid! Worked with a couple of folk from niddrie in the past and have to say they were as normal as the next person but wanted out of the place. Kind regards to you all. 👍😎

These were awful times. So many lovely people struggling against all the odds. And so many fine people doing all they could to alleviate the pain of it all

is the sound working on this video for others? the sound isnt playing and i have opened up another browser tab and played another videop with sound working perfectly.

God bless Evo-Stick the old guy in our town that had the hardware shop had pallets of the stuff through the back and as he took your cash would say I hope your not sniffing that boys lol

The bad auld good day's!

LMAO ! A Scots guy commented on here, and it has auto-translate into English ! :D :D

Can’t tell if Edinburgh has gotten better or worse

I loved The Cunningham twins...even married one.

11:03 - WTF ?? Look at that chain and padlock on the emergency exit doors ! Someone should have pointed it out to that copper, that is a serious breach of safety regulations !

Who is the gay Bond villan? What a trip!

I had a girlfriend in Craigmiller circa 1974 Me being from Morningside lol. Used to shit myself going to visit her with mobs of YGT and Niddrie Terror running about. And the Occasional Inche Cumbie mob visiting, was a warzone

Worked there repairing the wee fences outsides their houses for months

Nothing has changed

It amuses me how Francis falconer and her husband lived in the craigmiller council house,a spit from fc.smaller houses when you go to primary school and the taller ones when going to liberton high school,they moved to Falkirk,where did they get the money?they had two boys,don't know what happened to the oldest Alan,but the youngest Eric went into the rollers.not getting all that was old,but parents leaving Eric at 15,took awhile until her sister Helen to take him in,by then he lived in a trailer and going through garbage to eat,their kids would be in a home,and they would be fined or jailed.

God everyone was well spoken in the 80s here lol

CRAIGMILLAR HAS HAD SERIOUS SOCIAL PROBLEMS SINCE TIME BEGAN, AND STILL HAS THEM TODAY.

The posh man could have done more then

I remenber all the AIDS cases .. it was very sad state of affiairs... thank the lord I was a child and never interaxcted with drug use like that .. but many youngsters parents were all dying..

And how is it today? Watching this breaks my heart that councils didn't do enough but quick to be corrupt. It sickens me that a MP is on the council and doesn't do a damn thing in Parliament to make it's city or state better.

"The Gormleys" ? >:D

dont you think Gene Hunt didnt do enough to fix the blue peter garden

Thats were ma family are fa and still stay in Niddrie well a was born and Breed in Bingham a moved out in 93 wish a could move back a stay in Muirhouse now but ive heard ma old sunny Bingham is worse then Muirhouse now Bingham was the best place to be brought up?

If the old man's garden was green and white it would be wrecked. Definitely a blue nose area.

Ande

Nothing changes, the Queen obviously needs more money so of course scotland will suffer.

I was working as a shopfitter and was working on a refit of a pharmacy here in the 2000s when I was stopped outside by a wee tinky woman in her 40s who asked what we were doing. I told her we were opening a new pharmacy and she got immediately uppity and said to me "Whit? Well we'll burn this fukin place to the groond agen if tbey dinnae gie us mair methudone." There were some right tickets hanging round there and come methadone day, the queue stretched around the inside of the shop. Still a shitehole of a place.

1984 there was loads of police to arrest miners

The coments lol, big us up, we was um.

Good see it did get houses 50 year later but niddrie people are sound

My grandad was the cole man it got a lot worse in the late 80’s

And let me get this straight the council and goverment back then complained the area was awful and whatever else but yet also moaned how doing community projects cost to much god wow if ur not helping a area dinne have the cheek to complain about it wow

A scheme of zombies 😂

@12:27 - I bet you that coat's fake or robbed ! >:D

Stuart Dignan R.I.P MA AULD PAL YNT AND JUNIOR DARCY

I lived 2 miles up the road at Newton Village in 1984.. my whole family worked and to say no jobs is just not true.. we didnt sniff glue.. or break into neighbours homes. It's just a lie to say there is no hope.

Was this a serious documentary ? - It almost swings over into parody.

English guy on first inpection looks posh and dodgy As you hear him speak... He sounds spot on

They think its bad then only if they coule see scotland now

Scottish social housing is so ugly and depressing......

It’s called cholesterol, Scottish people eat it