Glasgow: A City Through Time (Then & Now) 

I am African and I have lived in Glasgow f0r almost 20 years now. I find the people so funny and welcoming. It's been a pleasure to live here.

Nice touch with the clocks moving backwards. I've always like then and now books. Glad I found this channel.

Brilliant. My late father was born at 43 Cramond Street (no longer in existence) in 1901, came to Cape Town, South Africa in 1922/23 and sadly passed away 1957. I'm 73 and wonder if I'll ever live to see Glasgow. My hopes are high.

This is brilliant! Should be shown all over the city, buses, subways, trains etc

Fascinating to see my home town through the ages. Thanks for sharing.

thanks to the time travel team , truly appreciate the hours and hours of work put into making these videos , but looking through the comments you must understand what a fantastic impact it has on the people who view it. brilliant work. i belong to Glasgow and Glasgow belongs to me.

Thank you for the visit!

Love seeing the modern buildings dissolving to see the previous townscapes that once occupied the site

One of my fave Cities!

Great overlaps and so nice how the beautiful buildings still survive today . I would have loved to have lived back 100+ yrs ago . We have lost so many beautiful buildings and history due to development. Awesome work James 👍🏻

Awesome video! Thank you for reminding us the eternal beauty of this city. ⭐ Brought some lovely memories from the time when I studied there, hopefully I will come back again as tourist or to live again for a while. I miss the beautiful Glasgow.

Fantastic !! Thoroughly enjoyed that......

Fabulous. Five star presentation! Totally brilliant, take a bow! Bravo

My dad would have loved this , he came from darkest Lanarkshire but was absolutely passionate about the city

All your content is amazing but this one means so much as I’m from Glasgow. Keep up the good work!

Great bit of work, well done

Amazing love it

Clever... I'm lucky enough to live just a half hour from Glasgow by Bus and now that I'm retired the Bus journey is free It's only the weather that hinders me. Thoroughly enjoyed this video so much I've become a subscriber :-)

I never put comments on videos, but I have to add to this video: Absolutely fantastic! Thank you for providing us with a little bit of history in such an interesting way.

thank you , really enjoyed that , liked and subbed

Wow that was mesmerising, great watch 👌 please keep up the great work from drumchapel Glasgow 👍✌

So that's why the Tollbooth on Glasgow Cross has those strange marks on its stonework. It always looked to me like a building had been attached to it but as the tower now stands on an isolated traffic island I could never make sense of how those marks got there. One picture tells the story. Thanks for solving that mystery.

That was awesome! It's great to see how much is actually still there and the map at the end was brilliant. The population, monarchy changes, prime minister changes, car changes, that was done extremely well. Thank you for that, I really enjoyed it.

An amazing trip through time .

As a Galswegian I love this clip. Just seeing how it was to how it is. Things looked alot better and cleaner back then though no doubt this belies the hardships of the time. Thank you for posting this. Will save it to my collection. Fun fact: When Nazi second in command Rudolf Hess came to Scotland on his hairbrained peace mission. He was held at the wyndford army barracks on maryhill rd.

I had a day trip to Glasgow a few years ago. I liked seeing the maps at the end showing the increase in population :)

Fantastic bit of work

To quote Kathleen McDermott's character in Morvern Callar: "Pure dead brilliant!" Thanks so much for posting this. I took off for Toronto a few days before Christmas '69, love it here, and would never leave. But this brought back so many great memories. The blend of old and new (to me) architecture in places such as St. Enoch and George Squares is creative and interesting. Fab music too!

Awesome!

Fantastic work. I loved the 1774 image and had a really good study.

That was FANTASTIC, thank you! Incredibly interesting

I’m from Glasgow. Thank you so much for the video, I’ll show it to my whole family. Very well made and so interesting

Wish with all my heart that I could live the rest of my life in Scotland. I keep dreaming.

Wow

So many memories, James. I was born - 29 March 1951 - at Stobhill Hospital, Springburn, Glasgow. Finally left that 'dear green place' circa 1960! My Paternal Grandfather worked at Blochairn Steel Works (died 1978). Maternal Grandfather worked at British Railways (before and after nationalisation), mostly at St Enoch's and Queen Street Stations (died 1983). He occasionally referred to Queen Street Station as 'Queer Street' ... Enough rambling. Thank you for this upload. For what it is worth, Glasgow holds no happy memories for me (paedophile step-father and narcissistic mother - what a combo!). I am now about to look up your Dumfries video. I worked in Dumfries with British Gas, during which time I was responsible for deploying the Emergency Gas Board Personnel during the Lockerbie Disaster. But that is another story which will remain respectfully silent. Stay free, James. All the best to you and yours. Rab 💚 👋 🌠

That was very interesting.

This is fascinating and so beautifully done! What a stunning city Glasgow is 🤗

I loved this technique! Now working out how to watch in slow motion for a longer look at the images! I certainly watch it again. Thank you.

Great vid! Very tragic to see the comparison of modern architecture and town planning compared to the beautiful images of yesteryear!

Loved this Thankyou 🧡

Nice one!

Great compilation. Always been fascinated by industrial archaeology...

Very enjoyable and informative

Superb, looks much better back in the day. Lifeless and soulless now

Brilliant.. Can you do one of Port Glasgow?

Awesome! I wonder if you would do a time lapse of Thistle street, Gorbals, Glasgow? as my mother grew up their during the war and tells stories of the houses that were blown up right next door during the war and tales of the 'Cumbie gang'. I have found some pictures but not much. Cheers Wally

Breaks my heart to seeing what has been destroyed of this once beautiful town. 😥😯😥

Hello there I'm From Scotland and I been to Glasgow a lot even though I'm in the Dumfries and Galloway

At 0:48, how is that ship upstream of the bridge?

Very interesting clip. I've lived all my life in Glasgow other than 1 year spent working in Budapest & was completely unaware that the population was as high as 1.6M. I'd love to know exactly where the boundaries are that make this number so high?

Was expecting to see more of the riverside docks in the city. The whole area around the Science Centre and Finnieston crane has gone from cargo ships and docks to modern buildings and filled in docks even from the 70s.

Such a nice & interesting vid! But someone forgot about the evolution and extension of Glasgow’s subway system thru time since 1896 ... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

1:24 that is not Buchanan street station

Up Scotland now

Collaborations all the Way

Where aw the junkies ?

From 1777 onwards as the population started to significantly rise, what caused this inflation of people? Were people having more children or lots of people migrating?

sorry 49 seconds in that boat would not get down the Clyde to the left, bridge too low - boat too big

Why did the population drop so much in the early 60s?

We visited Glasgow’s few weeks ago and we have to say it was a disappointment , we decided to catch the train to Edinburgh one day and the contrast was really (better) noticeable, Glasgow didn’t seem any different to any other City in the UK at the moment ,lots of illegal’s in the cafe’s , beggars on the streets , buildings falling into disrepair, lots of litter ,it really wasn’t the place we had grown up to expect .

One of Britain's mightiest cities.

Govan being made to join the city in 1912 certainly boosted the size and population of Glasgow. (Yes, Rangers weren’t always a Glasgow team).

The population post 1950 went a bit mad, I dont think the current population is over 1,500,000.??!!

Over 16 million people live in Glasgow

Ah the birthplace of Scrooge McDuck

Was so much nicer back then by the looks of it and bow its just full of one way streets,cars and homeless people with immigrants begging everywhere you look.

Glasgow has lost its character. Its just like a ghost town now or a Hollywood set.. If fore fathers had know bout keeping old buildings and refurbishment. It would have been one of best in UK. Now empty shops and looks well worn such a shame