You can see how many parts of the city have improved since then but it's a shame so many fine Victorian buildings were indiscriminately knocked down in the 1970s.
Improved ??. have you seen to the Stalinist student housing blocks off the High St. Well done the council for approving these cheap nasty highly profitable private builds. At least with that eye sore film companies can use thema sets for cold war films.
Makes me see how old 70s is doesn't feel like that but it is true. I was thinking how this was before any of my siblings were born even my oldest were born 71. Also even the man I love who is in his 50s now was only 4 years old then too young to grasp the world yet. And then seeing the photos of empty streets and a young man crossing the road made me think of how everyone in their 20s back then would be 70 years old now. It feels almost like looking at photos from 1800s or early 1900s but it does not feel that long ago at all... and not much has changed either... then I realised my dad and mum would have just met then working at a hospital... and my dad would have been in his 30s then and my mother in her 20s. Crazy they were the young mans age then... my mother must be 70 odds now I haven't spoken to her in years due to abuse. I still feel she should be in her 50s still.
How can you say Glasgow has improved, it’s a mess far too much demolition, tenement buildings demolished to build high flats, then crime really started, and then those high flats were demolished due to mould..would have been far better to refurbish the tenement buildings the Red Sandstone buildings with wall tiles as you entered were lovely.. Pure destruction of History, which can never be replaced, like the absolute gorgeous Hotel at Saint Enoch Square, no reason to demolish if architects knew their jobs today there would be less destruction, with History on the outside still living on. Margaret
The football match at around 2.30 is, I think, a game between Scotland and N. Ireland played in 1969. A 1-1 draw, the crowd was less than 8000 and was, at the time, the smallest for a Home International match. The people under the big brolly were the only people in the vast Celtic end of the stadium- which at the time was capable of housing 5000 people. I think they left at half time and it was the first international I ever attended.
There's a different feel about Glasgow at the present.. a lot of people have left it for faraway places..it's like a political tsunami has hit it..🎶will ye no come back again🎶?..
People from Glesga will tell you that if they were reincarnated the wouldn’t want brought up anywhere else. We had no money,no rat race,but we had a Community Spirit unbeaten worldwide. Just look at the Stars who came fae Glesga. That’s why we wrote the song Ah Belang tae Glesga. We are proud of our Heritage and we all know it was a childhood tae die fir. We even stopped people shovin their Grannie aff the Bus. Awae fir peace an sugar. Got it right up ye.
Hi - it's song called Tuireadh Iain Ruadh by Runrig. While I like this band, I chose this track because it was the backing bed which STV used before 24 hour broadcast when a list of the following days programmes would be shown before closedown. I've appreciated the feedback and I think that earlier commentary suggesting that music which came later than the pics shouldn't be used is probably correct so if I do any more I'll bear that in mind.
Those high rises lurking behind the old buildings - like aliens invading from another planet. Town planners = fail. I loathe what they did to that great city.