Spent many a happy time in Drumchapel. My Gran lived in Heathcot Avenue, the very last flat, top floor (the church end) which faced down the hill and with a view of the whole of Glasgow. Mum and Dad got married in Drumry St Mary's COS just around the corner. My paternal Grandad lived in Linkwood Drive, and we spent every Sunday visiting our Grandparents. We used to live in Linnvale and Mum used to walk with me to Drumchapel shops and back, when I was pre-school age. Grans house was just a short walk up the path on the hill. Dentist was in Achamore Road and Alistair Gillies was one of the dentists (the Scottish singer). Wish i could go back in time for a day... Mum's passed away, as have all my Grandparents but Drumchapel will always be part of my life.
Big believer that where you’re from isn’t where you’re going or who you are. You see what’s in front of you .. you have the ability to make choices... I grew up with all of that around me in drumchapel.. I decided I wanted to be better than what I seen on my way to school every day .. I didn’t want to graduate from school to pubs to a prison cell .. so I worked hard .. and got out.
@@rossm685 thanks .. I just try to be honest as possible .. life can be shit .. lord knows I’ve had my own hard times .. but I own my decisions 100%.. Hope you’re keeping well, and the best possible advice I was ever given ... do something that makes you smile everyday ...and if you can’t think of what to do .. make someone else smile”
@@staceylang6382 no probs and thankyou , you cant argue with honesty and truth it's all that matters if your real and true 👍 I'm glad you said you own your decisions 100% thats class and not many ppl got that or want to even admit that 👌 I'm kl thanks hope your doing ok yourself pal 🤞 thanks for the sound advice and hope your smiling ❤✌
Well you shouldn't! Amazing people and aweful people are born everywhere. The real value of a person shows in what one does in their hardship,not with their velvet cushioned privilege.
@@Mich-xs5vz I just skipped randomly to 11 minutes in and one of the woman is saying ‘many of our homes resemble dungeons, with walls thick with mould and slime’ once again , a horrendous place to live and put people
I lived in Drumchapel for around 10 years, Katewell Av, Achamore Rd. Got sober. 1981. The most depressing time of my life. I moved away. To Jersey then London. Started to educate myself again. When I lived there al I did was drink fight. Get jailed. All in that order.
I lived there from birth until I was 20. Never got the jail or in a fight .. there is a lot to be said for circumstance and influences. I had family members in your position.. I seen the choices they made and what it caused for them and the family.. I just made different choices.
I was born in Glasgow first home Drumchapel. When I was training as a nurse early 90s having left Scotland at 17. My first university was Canterbury, We saw this video in a lecture initially I was embarrassed butthen I got a surge of rage and it was a huge motivation to me. I very quickly became nurse manager and have lived in England, Canada and now Cyprus. I went on to gain another degree and masters degree. I was adamant that people’s attitudes to me coming from Drumchapel would not hold me back. We can’t help where we were born but we can educate and work ourselves out those places if we want.
I was born in Cowcaddens and grew up in Ruchazie have lived in South Nitshill and Priesthill. Now I live in Nitshill. I have always been proud of the places I live. They may not have been the best but places are more than building. The people are more important
Just the way the woman says this at the end. Heavy. "Monday night and I'm sitting here wi a wee quarter bottle and I'm eh... I'm 29 and mah lassies are big and there's... ... there's fuck all. Know what ah mean? And where's the hope and the dreams? You think...(unintelligible) that you're a bit different from everybody else... And you're no."
Moved from Partick to the Drum in the fifties and it was a brilliant place but it never had anything for the young people like football pitches but when they built the community centre at Essenside we all went there for the indoor football and the dancing and loved it, I still go up and see friends that still live there and I will always say I came from Drumchapel.
I grew up in the drum, happy childhood memories living there, when you were a bairn you never saw the place as being deprived. When I look at some of those images all I can think of is my old home, it makes me smile :)
Grew up there myself Claire tho I think it was just people's perception of Drumchapel it was the problem. In my teen years I'd go to places like Airdrie and the neds there would find out you came from Drumchapel would stay away from you.
Never be ashamed to say where you're from, living in Ballina Ireland for last 23 years, Grow up in Drumchapel and went to school in stonedyke and the went to waverley secondary happy 😊 memories
I used to steal my sister's Barbie bike and play in a like cycle ramp place prob away now I also got my first Kik in the balls coming home from school for being cheeky wae somebody that il never forget lol still remember the boys name David Murray-i was only 6 years old at the time and we moved not long after to England-mad memorys from drumchaple though and I went to st Lawrence's school
I used to work in pollock I remember a woman walking past with a crying little boy of about 3/4. She said to the boy, “f@ck up you little...”. Then about ten minutes later a mother and father walk past me with a baby crying in the pram. The mother stops and and says “the ween’s crying because there’s no coke in the bottle”. Fills the bottle up with coke and then gets on their way.
did used to run wild in drumchaple when i was 5 years old ,glue sniffers at the corner ,stealing my sisters bike before she got home ,my dad stealing the neighbours giros ,getting covered in gloss paint n my ma going nuts ,nearly getting drowned in quicksand,fighting people with bottles ,catching bees with a jar ,going mad treks to farmland ,list goes on
i have memorys of staying at inchfad drive when i was about 5-6 years old -went to st lawrences school in primary 1 and lived in a close and glue sniffers would sniff glue at the corner-im 39 now
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H_1Qbn-Hj3A.html I remember this little park just near lochgoin school when I was a kid.. I remember a giant alsation that ruled the slide haha it would stand at the top and bark like fuck slide down the shoot then straight back up the stairs again and reset lmao.. that was a good 45 years ago though when I lived in the drum also :P
Born in drumchapel 1987 lived there until 2012 moved back 2016 , best child hood invercanny drive , don't agree with this yes it was a mess but what scheme wasn't ? I grew up with amazing people family , I went on to have a good job I moved back in 2016 and wouldn't leave again like all places it has it's good and bad what saddens me is the way the shopping centre has been destroyed
I moved to Drumchapel in 1953 moved from the slums of Glasgow and I was four years of age and I absolutely loved it. The adventures I had there were totally amazing, growing up I had no problems getting work, I actually found having the toilet inside the house was such a novelty I loved it. I actually left for Manchester for new employment in 1973 and to be honest left all my mates a move I have regretted ever since, but that's the trouble people will not travel to work they want it on their doorstep.
It's believed amongst local historian's that Merlin or more likely that of 'Merlyn' throughout the 6th Century is believed to have been raised from what is now known as Drumchapel. Although it is arguable that 'Merlyn' eventually wanted to see an end to the 6th century bloody savagery from the uprisings by calling a meeting at Tintagel Castle at the request of the warrior bear King aka King Arthuret. All this can be traced back to the time of St Mungo or formerly known as Saint Kentigern. A time infact when Glasgow was referred to as Glasgu which was deeply divided in a bloody civil uprising over the spread of Christianity in reference to Saint Columba's mission to convert the Picts of Loch Ness towards that of Christianity. This served as a major turning point concerning even that of the land of Strathclyde prior to Scotland being officially born until that was when King Kenneth McAlpin took to the reign to ward off the Vikings from the west coast of Scotland despite numerous Viking raids in Largs throughout this time period. Although throughout this time during the time of Arthur or Arthuret who found himself surrounded in a civil dispute possibly serving as mediator in trying to quell religous tensions over 6th century Christians and Pagans although this is however still widely historically speculative to definitively say for sure given all antiquitous and archaeological findings to verify for certain. Not to mention this was a time when Viking invasions weren't entirely uncommon throughout this time period in reference to that of King Roderick Hael of Strathclyde's reign were regional King's and war leaders could be pledged to attend a Royal alliance meeting known as the King's Knot (thought to be the official Arthurian round table located at Stirling) in order to discuss strategies and defences in protecting the land from Viking raids thus resolving heated religious tensions and skirmishes amongst neighbouring tribes and clans! Hey who would have thought that Merlyn was a Glesga lad, minus the traffic cone! 🧙♂️😉
I grew up here .In the 60s everyone worked , went to new schools , great young teachers , better housing and real opportunity through education and work. Good people let down by its leaders .
Funniest guy I ever worked with was from Drumchapel. His name was Andy and I knew him around this time. Went to a party here in 90 and it was super scary. Three of us were black belts and even we left early lol
Blocks are stark and oppressive like a prison. Horrible sense of dismal dread as they loom over from hilltops. Seemed to be a thing with 50s planners and architects, taking no account of exposure to wind and rain and ignoring the shelter the landscape might naturally provide. Partly why these blocks look so wrong, we know instinctively that humans don’t settle on hilltops unless building a fortress. Growing up on the outskirts of the east end of Glasgow in the 70s and 80s, everything I see here feels so familiar, but somehow worse.
Grew up in Drumchapel Summerhill Road then Drumchapel Road in my teens. Tough place and grim at times but some great memories too. Sad to see it disappear but inevitable.
@@mariecoyle1413 nobody said it wasnt but its still a scheme that's been notorious for drugs car theft and violence since the 80s especially for it being a tiny place.
my first school was st laurences ,only went until primary 1 and we moved away to england ,seen some kid hit another kid with a hammer when there and stolen cars getting burned out and the kids playing in a burned out car.mad days
Wasn't even that bad lived there from 1974-1993, lived on Belsyde avenue, it wasn't as bad as the media made it out to be, they're treating it as if it's a war torn country, it was just full of bored teenagers and grimy tenements flats, it was exactly old Easterhouse or castlemilk, I loved living in the drum, if you’d actually went there you’d find that it was full of nice people just trying to get on with life and make a living.
