Brilliant video, brought back memories. Loved seeing the old Leyland Atlanteans, the corpy buses, even a single decker conversion! Maybe because I'm a Coach driver but used to drive similar vehicles and love classic vehicles of all types.
they single-decker Leyland Atlanteans were on the number 98, Queen St.-Central shuttle. Previously (before Strathclyde orange) there were even-smaller Seddons. Proper buses but mini-bus sized!
I graduated from Glasgow Uni in 1987. Four Bernard Mathews Turkey Burgers were 89p. A Maharani boil in the bag curry was about 79p. We used no heating whatsoever for three years in our frozen hovel in Kersland Street. Ah, we were poor, but we were miserable.
@@robertmcmillan3638 Glasgow Uni degrees in the 1980s weren't worthless. About 5% of the population went to uni. Guys I know took ten years to get one. Some departments had zero Firsts year after year. Now some of them hand out 40% Firsts. Trying to acquire some understanding of anything, with nothing to help you but unreadable books and articles, in a system where people were perfectly happy to fail you and nobody cared if you were upset, was all quite something.
@@craigross341 Back in the 70's and 80"s they weren't worthless of course but they are worthless now as almost everyone has them who's under 40, with more graduates being added each year to the low paid workforce, call centres etc to compete with. If you've been working in your studied sector though since the 80's or 90's then that experience is worth more than any degree would be.
@@robertmcmillan3638 Yes, but if the qualification signalled a stable ability in the 80s when it was awarded then I might have a real ability now not possessed by someone who'd had one doled out later. Others might recognise that. Seeing this is the kind of thing they taught me, or - perhaps - was an ability I had to have to get in. That's another distinction the class of '87 quickly and easily draws.😄
Great seeing the barras in this video. I was 13 in 1987 and used to head up every Saturday morning with my mates to buy knocked off computer games. Best of days.
I remember Microsoft got the Barras raided a few times for pirate software. One time the MS Software was on sale in the Barras before Microsoft had released it in the UK!
Great to see people interacting with the camera rather than being hostile as is now quite common these days. The difference in The Barras from then to now is very sad.
Excellent wee video of bygone Glasgow...unlike the usual filming, he lingers at each place giving the viewer time to soak in the details, instead of the usual 5 seconds...wish he'd filmed the old and very distinguished looking guy at the barras who used to sell the jewellery/watches...the camera was just a few feet away from his stall, but never turned towards it...
Thank you for those kind words. As a kid I lived at Abbotsford Place, Gorbals, and when I went to visit the area in 87, looked like a bomb had hit the place. There was nothing left except for my old Abbotsford School. I live in Canada, and often like to go back to dear old Glesga to see my sister and her family. That film was one of the many film to video transfers I do as a business. It's all wonderful nostalgia.
I was 15 in 1997... about same age of the kids in George Sq. Lived in EK, but started working in Glasgow in 1990. I remember much of this. Great video. ☺
Ahh Glasgow fantastic city fantastic people I can remember going to the barras with my parents 70s to early 80s some characters there always selling wheeling and dealing some good bargains to I still visit Glasgow when I can love going there 🏴👏
I could have been one of the wee boys at the start. I was 12 that year. I would go into Glasgow every month to buy books. Sometimes I would go in with my Ma and we would have our dinner in a hotel called Stakies. Good days!
+Kcuf elgoog You're right, Super 8 movie film came out in 1965, and the camera was made around 1970. Kodak are actually reviving Super 8 in the fall of 2016.
Its no from George square - its a pigeon that couldnae fly because it got bitten by a rat and the boy just brought it into the city center for a day out
+ GAVIN IRVIN AM AFRAID UR WRONG ABOUT THE QUALITY OF VIDEO CAMERAS IN 1987, AS I HAD A VERY GOOD SONY CAMCORDER THEN WITH SMALL TAPES, I HAVE JUST GOT THEM PUT ONTO DVD'S RECENTLY WHICH R OF GREAT QUALITY OF MY SON AS A BABY, HE WAS BORN IN 1986 BRILLIANT TO LOOK BACK AT MY SON AS A 1/2YR OLD VERY HAPPY MEMORIES FOR MY FAMILY, I HAVE WATCHED THAT DVD SO MANY TIMES , IT'S LIKE GOING BACK IN TIME SUCH CLEAR FOOTAGE ALSO OF THE DUCK BAY MARINA AT LOCH LOMAND LOL
to len, great little movie I you managed to capture my mates dad's fish caravan on which you and I knew as Abbotsford place once, l lived in pollockshaws rd , then moved down south in the late 70s
I remember going into town in the 80s with my mum when I was little on they big orange corpy buses (I was born in 1979). I fuckin hated them lol loved it once I was in the city centre though coz I got to chase all the crabbit pigeons 😂 and then we'd go for a wimpy burger. My dads an antique dealer and he used to take me down the Barra's and the Brigit. I was always amazed by how many people he knew
Buses wae leatherette seats that yer legs stuck tae whilst wearing shorts in the summer. 78 ah wis born, I remember the Lite Bite doon St Enoch wis ah treat fir a wee pup like masel.
The "magnificent building" you mentioned in George Square? Well, it became what it is because the plans orginally were drawn up to be for the new Co-operative Headquarters. Those plans however were rejected by the powers that be in the Cooperative. Instead, they chose the blue prints put forward by another architectural company for a building that be would become the Cooperative Headquarters. Many decades later, The Co-op Headquaters building was eventually sold, and it's outstanding features were incorporated into the private residential apartments one can see to this day.
You wouldn't like it as much now. For a time it was called red square when the Council had taken the grass away. But it should be called red square now because it's full of leftwing socialists doing protests for this, that and the other every other weekend.
Robert McMillan don't forget it gets sold to the Banks a few times a year for wherever scheme they are going to rob you for . The army and police like to have a "public awareness day" there too.. You ll also notice the homeless get shifted from there pronto.... Freedom? A thing of the past- cheers Nichola.
@@dopesensi The SNP has RUINED Scotland and the real kick to the head is they walk away with a almost clean sweep of 50 +plus seats at election times. The numbers don't add up? Consider how many people are in Scotland then consider how many are eligible to vote?, Then how many people ACTUALLY bother to vote then split the votes up between all the political parties. So where does the SNP get all this so called support from? Not that many people ARE actually voting for them but the SNP keeps making claims that they "speak for the people of Scotland". NO They bl0000dy well DON'T! And they certainly DON'T have the right to dictate to the rest of the UK. Nigel farrage got more votes down south than Scotland has eligible voters in the first place by but the reality denier's in the SNP think that they can stop Brexit, spend like crazy with NO results, have Hospitals fall apart, roads and infrastructure fall apart, immigrants flood in, no prospects for the advancement of society and they still think they are "winning" Why has Nicola Sturgeon, Alex salmond, the SNP and that Green party "harvie" guy who backs them up not been investigated?
My home in North Glasgow for the past 40 yrs, years has been overrun by a thousands of economic migrants, halal butchers and African North & sub Saharan shops. Multiculturalism has ruined a once great community. Thanks Nikola.
As a young teenager who visited Glasgow frequently, it looks like an ancient time, to anyone watching this 🤣🤣🤣🤣..I feel as if I'm.watching a film from decades before 1987. Where does time go!!! It was really coming into its own. With City of Culture and the Garden Festival. It was exciting times for the city. Unfortunately its lost its appeal. Its not the city it was.
what has hapend to the barras the last time i was there just before chirsmas it was like a shell off its self . in the 90s i uest to go every sunday all the way from edinburgh.
James Aitken. I strongly suspect the City Council is allowing it to run down. That way, they can say it's unprofitable, and will sell the land on for new student accommodation. It's pretty depressing now, fake DVDs and dodgy tobacco 🙁
@jemimallah Who mentioned "crime"? But now that YOU have brought it up, do you know that Govanhill is an absolute "hell hole" that resembles something from a third world Country which is unacceptable considering that it's Nicola Sturgeon's constituency. R@pes are happening more. Junkies are fighting with the immigrants for the best begging spots in the City centre also. People are getting in to real trouble with landlords because of this, that and the other. At least back in the 90's to early 2000's, people had hope for a brighter future and what was there in Glasgow at the time was good enough. Don't know where you've been?
@jemimallah Here's a link among many if you don't believe me www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/09/24/snps-justice-policies-attacked-violence-sex-crimes-surge-scotland/amp/
Speak for yourself bud. 1987 i was watchin robocop n adventures in babysittin or watever the azad had new. U mean in comparison to the time difference between now n 87- 87-45? You're still wrong.
the cam makes it seem way more back in time than it was but it seemed futuristic to 4 year old me in 86 - the first time i went on an underground train. Having said that, 80s britain was grim as fuck in general.
Cracking footage of the time and a turning point of history.Modern Glasgow is still fascinating but has entered another chapter in terms of changing population.
A was born in 79 an Am a proud memory holder from aww these day's, mist probably felt a touch of depression way back n these era's but hey wit aboot noo ! ffs, most them folks in this ur Probably well deed now an to me that makes it aww that wee bit more magical and almost mitastical, Long Live Glasgow wee Are the ppl
Look you can drive (up to 30mph) and park in the City Centre! Result = lots of retail. Today the retail is all closing down because of traffic restrictions.
