Please no bad comments. I was a missionary in Govan for nearly a year in 1984. I made lifelong friends. The neighborhood boys signed their union Jack and gave it to me. Tommy and Kingy and a few others. My heart I left on Govan. I lived off of Paisley Road West. Next to the church that is now a climbing club now. Miss old Govan
My Papa Tommy Matthews was born in Broomloan Road in 1933. He sadly has dimmentia, but we are watching this just now and he has a wee happy tear in his eye, we have him back to his old self, even if it's only for the length of this show. Thank you so much for your fantastic video.
What an fantastic watch, just brilliant. Thank you so much. My Grandmother was born at 20 MacLean Street, Govan and my Grandfather 77 Nethan Street. How beautiful old Govan was and such a shame most of it has been demolished.
My father also born in mac lean Street and so was I. We moved to East Kilbride with his job in the building trade in 1960 & into a brand new house & garden with an inside toilet. !
Grew up in Mc Kechnie Street in Govan. My Parents moved to Pollokshaws when I was 13. I Fucking hated it there, to make matters worse I had to go to a new secondary school where I knew no one. Still go to Govan. I am an Architect living in Florida but spend six months of the year for projects in Glasgow. This is a great publication, I am well aware of Govan,s trials and tribulations it is still my home.
Glad you've still got your Scottish sense of pride, it's dying out now as the snp turn Scotland into another faceless diverse shithole. I'm in Aberdeen and in the last ten or fifteen years it's changed beyond recognition as we're replaced by Eastern Europeans, Africans and middle Eastern Muslims.
The calibre of people from Govan and the like are a threat to the establishment, their neighbourhoods need to be continuously dismantled and the people dispersed. Real people. Love from Liverpool.
Great video, thanks. I have fond memories of Govan in the 1960s. My aunty and uncle lived in McKechnie Street opposite the Lyceum cinema. I was often in the Lyceum cafe on Govan Road. My uncle was an electrician in Fairfield’s shipyard and I sometimes went to ship launching. Great memories.
Great place, grew up in G3 and now live in g52 , served my appreniship in govan too, so always been in and around Sunny Govan. Great graft and industry and also great depression . Its always changing and look forward to see what become of the graving docks , half of govan shopping centre carpark , and water row. Going to work as an apprentice FLT engineer around 1996 visiting Kvaerner amongst many other neuks and crannies around the area introduced me into the working life and earlier memories of the garden festival are still vivid and fond
I was born at 93 Golspie street in Govan I'm a Govanite. Lived there till aged 10 and moved to Pete Road on Polock. Left Glasgow for leeds when I was 17. So many great memories. Including the local flea pit. Thank you for this much appreciated.
I loved this I was a wee girl there from 1955 I went to broomloan rd school loved it I lived in govan rd I remember all the street names in this video I fell in the elderpark pond which made me a govinite the Glasgow fair was great one of the queens even stayed in our tenement me and my pal used to take the ferry to the art gallery's. My wee pal went to st Gerard's and we went there for night school baking but when the priests found out I was a protest and I was not allowed to go back we moved to central Scotland when I was 11 it broke my heart ,
My grandfather and his family came from Govan. When I discovered this info I shared it with a girl from Glasgow the dynamics of everything changed. She "looked down her nose " from then on. She said my people were gangsters and dock workers. I just laughed and laughed.......
I nearly fell over when I saw this photograph of the girl in the middle of this picture. She is the spitting image of my wife when we were courting. Problem is I left Govan when I was 16 in 1962 to live in the Manchester area almost 60years ago. I showed my wife the photo last night and she immediately said she looked like her. I keep looking at it and thinking I wonder who she is. Uncanny.
I love Govan use to hang around with people Fae Govan then went with a guy Fae Copeland road Ibrox ,people are always so friendly & I always felt welcome when I visited Govan
I live in Paisley but my mate Wattie worked in 'the yards' as a welder for most of his working life until he retired fairly recently. I'd never been to Govan until about a year ago but I've been back plenty of times since. If like me you are a 'tourist' in Govan, take a trip to Watson's the butcher in Shaw Street for a hot pie (hold the poke under yer chin to catch the grease) and take a a walk to the Govan Old Church (truly awesome), You MUST see the Govan stones inside, and check out the Pearce Institute, Brechin's bar, a walk in Elder Park and tale in the nice architecture. If you like a wee walk, you can walk along old Govan Road past the old graving docks with their colourful graffitti .... Old Govan Road, it's a lang walk. The old red sandstone town hall is now a fancy Film studio. Govan V Linthouse..... Naw! Please don't start World War Three. Me, I love a wee jaunt to God's country, Govan and my pal Yvonne bought ne two Watson's pie's yesterday, so I'm 'pure sorted'..
Many of those old buildings look "GRIM" , an aggressive pressure washing & spruce-up could have helped preserve many of them. The curved & rambling avenues and streets are quaint.
My granny stayed at govan cross just next to the prego chip shop after living in tenerife for 14 Years we had to come home I los remember the gazelle bar in linthouse and summerton rd swimming baths ther was a pub called the rose shire and watsons bar fond memories
Ma good uncle was born and raised in Govan worked in Fairfields Yard to the late 90s and moved from Hutton Drive to the Tyne ,mainly where the work was for a fitter and good grafter. Not only working in the Fairfield he also used the Club and was a great compare but like most passed away with asbestosis and very sad for a man so good at what he did and yet the best and funniest man on earth ...Jimmy Nicol God Bless
I WAS BORN AND BROUGHT UP IN GOVAN AND THANKFULLY HAD PARENTS WHO TAUGHT ME THAT ALL MEN ARE EQUAL, I DO HOPE PEOPLE REALISE THIS IS YOUR OPINION,AND NOT THE ATTITUDE OF ALL GOOD GOVAN PEOPLE
The Govan Graving Docks are still there ( I was there on Monday 2nd Nov 2015), so how can the 'BBC/Science centre stand on their site ? -- search RU-vid for 'Govan Graving Docks' by Martin McCarthy that was filmed last year.
My mother was born in Blackburn street. Father in Copland road. Chrissie and John Lee. Moved to Renfrew to move into railway tenement. Ten of them stayed in Copland road. Imagine. Susan lee
Lived in Govanhill now known as Govanhell....used to be a great place...ffs who is responsible??? eastern europeans and asian landlords to be honest......
Does anyone know about the basement in the Old Govan Arms? I know people went to it up to at least 5 years ago. Don't know whether to belive them or not
acomefae Govan even ma doctor wis called Dr Govan efter him it wis Maguire !!Happy Days In Sunny Go van oan ra Costa Dell Clyde !! An Old Govanite fae ra Winey
It's hard to believe now that Britain once was an industrial powerhouse , nobody will invest in Britain because of the Union anarchy of the past , but the rest of Europe still manufactures everything they have always done .
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Govan Wine Alley - more revisionism - why did Govan people hate Wine Alley - even in 60s I remember it - 'outsiders' - btw. contrary to the nonsense talked now, It had NOTHING to do with anti-Irish anti-catholic anything. Govan was taken over (& Partick) in 1913 by Glasgow. A large green area to the east of the Govan railway sidings, was zoned for Housing. Glasgow would at last build Houses in Govan, they built the Wine Alley - then filled it with Glaswegians. - another nonsense modern 'fake' story about Our area, 'Plantation' was known as Plantation, long before any family with Slave connections, bought the land. But don't let truth get in the Way of an agenda
@@l3awjawz another Myth - that Plantations (KP) name has anything to do with Slavery, it was named that long before Family that had ties to West Indies, bought land It was called 'Plantation' because of trees for Coppicing, on the old military maps of area. long before 19th century
@@awilson5398 Cheers for the reply mate, though my question is about the Wine Alley, which many Govan locals appeared to stigmatise, even though their own neighbourhood had all the same problems.
@@l3awjawz I didn't know all of this. Can I ask you what u know or heard about Plantation. Do u know where abouts it is. I'm 66 my father born in mac lean Street I remember them talking about Plantation ? I might be wrong. Was it a park.
