Cumbernauld, Town for Tomorrow - High Quality - 1970 

This video is a classic piece of history. It shows a time period where people were happy and content. I am sure people had their worries and concerns of the day but they were indeed optimistic as you rightly say. We should treasure these memories.

@@neilhilton35 seriously? We grew up there in the early 70s it was vile nobody was happy everyone was a criminal and it was horrible

Move there then. Go work the sausage factory and get paid less than bar staff, go home to those cardboard boxes where you hear next door throw up the buckfast every night paper thin walls it’s shit.

@@neilhilton35 did you live there? I doubt it it was a hell hole everyone hated it

@@ahippy8972 I think it degenerated within just a few years to become a problem area. Just like many new towns. I was just meaning to support the original post which said the original intention of the planners was for the good but as you say the reality was something different and people felt isolated from their original home towns. However people in the sixties were optimistic. By the seventies the world changed and not for the best!

Ravenswood was the name of a farm linked to my Family.not far from Cumbernauld. The old village still exists in parts.

What? Built by big, hefty lassies with one boob? I'm all for it.

Now it’s just full uv jakes nd fat maws in their pjs cuttin aboot 😂

My god I lived there we hated it it was awful we were like fish in a bowl with you ba S coming staring at us then going back to your privately owned terraces even Goebels was better than here you can here the drunks three looks up shouting puking, no privacy that was a lie. You heard the whole block through the rubbish shoot. The teens set the shoots on fire. Nobody had cars the under garages were full of prostitution and glue sniffers this film is nothing how we lived. So many suicides and so much abuse it was hell. This vid is a lie.

@@ryuh1054 it was in 1970 when we moved there. Single mums criminals drunks it was hell.

I bet the place is a shithole and cesspit now.

Amazing if it is you two!

Your showing ure age now lol

aye it wiz you and you were growling at me,

Sapphire Sky I know! I guess it's blocked off now. Or at least there's nothing up there anymore

Jolly Monkey There has been a lot of talk of the top floor. I managed to get the lift up there one day the furthest one away from the library. Was confronted with two locked doors and a card holders only sign pointing left with I now believe was some kind of social club up there. The thing is the centre used to be opened up with exposed sections like the long ramp walkways to the library etc. But then it was all closed in and made into an indoor only centre that is locked up at night. Used to be that you could always wander about it like a shopping arcade in the beginning.

Don’t I live in Cumbernauld it’s shit

Patrick Bradley Ohh not there anymore ? I want to visit Cumbernauld it’s the only completely Brutalist city I’ve ever seen , it’s so interesting , I bet they grade 2 list the city centre

Shopaholic undisputed heavy weight champion Cumbernauld looks nothing like that anymore some parts are nice but most parts aren’t

Peejay McKenzie fuck up

Kim Jong-Un sapnin kim

Truth. I hated it my mum was attacked it was hell. Then the stink of the sausage factory why they not saying that?

@@Dmcs1917 David is the only one who lived there apart from us it was hell

A Hippy I was talking to Kim Jong Un m8

i see it when i dream it is a bit like a town in a reflection of a mirror it,but when i am awake its all different

That’s because they made real music 😉

They look more like more like they are having some sort of seizure.

c-A-s, not c-U-s!

WHAT A FILM

Climacston New Town LOL

Exactly, how many times will the buildings be blamed for societies failings when in fact society just fell apart regardless of a concrete block or a thatch roof cottage?

@@MartinHannett_ they were building new towns like this all over uk,i think there were over 30 being built,but could you imagine the government giving the go-ahead for just 1 today?.everything is too difficult and complicated now,there is no social control anymore and i don't think its the people's fault,i think this is what privatization has caused.

ray croal I agree. The Tories would put the Kybosh on it in favour of allowing big firms like Amazon, Vodafone etc. to not pay tax al a David Cameron.

@@raycroal Ironically it's the British people who may have 'unwittingly' voted to get rid of these large projects stemming from 'socialist leaning' ideals that were ideas from a government that would have believed in 'big government'. By the end of the 70's people were going off socialist ideals en masse, and huge central government led projects that went with these ideals. Well they were in England anyway. All these huge new town projects came from the idea of the need for 'big government' .....that central government had to provide them and take a lead in these projects. The state providing for everything you could possibly need or wish for. It was all designed for you. This could never happen today for many reasons - one being that we no longer live in a 'big government' era. Margaret Thatcher got rid of this notion for good in the 1980's, and we can never return to those days. Local Councils have more clout than they used to in the 60's and 70's, and can now overrule central government. Nimbyism is in full swing now. Back in the 60's and 70's it barely existed at all. Plus we've all become much more 'individualistic'. We largely have the 80's to thank (or not) for this. People also trusted each other alot more then, than they do now. You saw prams left outside a supermarket - some may have even had a baby in them(!!), but people knew that it would be safe to do this. Stealing a baby or walking off with someone else's empty pram wouldn't have crossed anyone's mind then, as society wasn't like that then. You could probably have left your car unlocked on the street all day and it would still be there eight hours later. It wouldn't have occurred to anyone to try and drive off in it, because again, people didn't think like that in those days. People respected other peoples' property and possessions. This though began to change later in the 70's. Margaret Thatcher wasn't responsible for this! Finally the Environmental lobby is significant now. It didn't exist 50 odd years ago. People simply didn't factor the natural environment into things like this, probably because they believed we were separate from it, not part of it.

@@robtyman4281 i agree with all of what you say but cars were easy to steal and a lot did get stolen.as for the prams, i think today if most people saw a pram and kid outside a supermarket a lot of good people would stay there to keep an eye on it until the parent came back,such is the perceived fear of badness these days,well i hope they would

Although that film has to be one of the worst I've seen , pile of dogshit lol

I think it is!

Cumbernauld is a pretty nice place actually. Ignore all the tossers on here slagging it off.

Aye..in 1970. 2023, not so much.

Mate I agree immigration needs to calm but ur lucky if u live there most of those migrants have come from far worse lol

Last I heard Ronnie Little is on crack sleeping in a ditch. It's a shame.

Yeah, like a Soviet concrete hellscape...but in a good way!

Cumbernauld is the tits! Stop slagging it off.

If you look carefully at the shape of the windows you can see it formed part of the upper floors of the centre shown at 6:56 in the video.

No traffic whatsoever. Everything moves freely exactly like this video shows.

Nicky Woodward Society changed and drugs came on the scene.

Mums leaving prams in great rows outside Galbraith's, those days are dead and gone forever.

Aha do remember she’s now probably at least 70

let me get ye her number fucksake

That's ma maw! Eyes aff ya pervo.

Just a member of the international jet set who made Cumbernauld their home in that era. Bianca, Mick, Britt, Joni, Andy...they made a second home of the "Whisky Bar" at the Golden Eagle Hotel, that is, of course, when they were not throwing a few shapes at the Condarrat-A-Go-Go nightclub, or just kicking back in Wee Tam's 24hr Haggis and Chip-A-Rama in Phase 1 of the Town Centre.

I was waiting for Austin Powers to show up.

@@davidmcmanus5918 😂😂😂

Oh nice video too.

***** Thank you.

I live there now it is a bit

Mark stewart aw! It was ok as a child but friends had told me it had gone into decline. I hardly remember it much tbh.

It's terrible my friend lives there

Well dude if you're gonna have a drug den you'd hope it would be drug infested. No point having one without any drugs.

Except there will be more atmosphere on Mars, and it won't be so cold in the winter.

Jolly Monkey Definitely. Very interested to see up there now. Part of the reason I love post-war architecture is the enormous level of hope surrounding them. I believe the failings of many of them was due to a lack of care of the buildings and the style of building quickly falling out of fashion.

Ryan Patrick The overuse of concrete and the grey colour palette that came as a result of that really haven't lasted the test of time.

I agree. I live in Seafar and it has gone downhill massively.

oh do you ? I know it well! ....Cumbernauld is a dump now... even when i was a wee boy i used to go to Scotia Play ... was amazing ! .... Im 25 now

+Alan Parker Scotia Play haha. That place got shut down due to poor safety if I remember right. Pretty much everyone had their birthday parties there in primary school