Walk today in the town centre of Greenock located on the west coast of Scotland. We will also cover some interesting facts and history about Greenock.Subscribe free at / @scotsmantravels3288
I lived in Scotland for 2 years . Really enjoyed my time there in Greenock , Gourook , Dunoon , Glasgow and Edinburgh - such peaceful places compared to living in Chicago , wish I could go back.
My home town ❤🏴 So many good memories back in the day. Miss Burger King etc. So much has changed now including the Oakmall. I remember GAME etc as a kid and had Santa’s Grotto and you put your letters in. Was beautiful and should bring it back ❤
Greenock is a town that's been through very tough times for years . Yes, it's not very attractive ; there are lots of yobs / smackheads in the town and on a miserable winter's day it can look pretty bleak . BUT ...the town and it's people have a Spirit and a History that you can actually feel in the air . Greenock might be down.....but it will never be out ! ( And I'm not from Greenock before you ask !! )
Hello C. How are you? Not good by the sound of it.... I just wondered - how old are you? I was 20 when I escaped from Greenock after living there for my entire life. You CAN get away but it's not easy. You have to make sacrifices in your day to day life. This is how *I* did it: I was on the dole for more than two years. Every week in the year before I left, I put a very small amount of money aside - usually £1.00 or £2.00 (don't forget this was 1980/81!) and, after a year, I boxed up my vinyl (to keep it safe in the brick storeroom we had in the tenement) - which I came back for 2 years later- and, with my saved money and my giro for that week, got on a bus and headed for East Anglia. When I got there I rented a TINY room (10 feet long and 4 foot wide which contained a small table and a single bed and NOTHING ELSE!) for five quid a week!. I got a job washing dishes at a local pub and worked for months while living in that tiny room until I'd saved enough for a deposit on a flat. Got the flat, then got a much better job etc and that's how I did it. Better job meant better accommodation and better accomodation made it easier to apply for better jobs. I'm 63 now and have *-never* gone back (except for a brief reunion with old friends in 1983 and 1997). I escaped and YOU CAN TOO. Don't give up - set your eyes on the grand prize: *Freedom*. Good luck, C. and all the best,
You've made a nice film of a dreadful town. I worked there for years and it's a dump- the only place I've ever been where your neighbour from across the close might mug you. Two types of people live there: Those who leave as soon as they can, never to return- and those who will never ever leave. Man, I know the place.
Lived here my whole life horrible place completely derelict if i gad enough money would leave for good tomorrow norhing in it constant rain frey awful place
