This is the District of Plantation in Glasgow, the dome you see at the docks is a walkway under the River Clyde to Finneston ...Plantation was mainly imigrants from the Highlands.
Most of this is an area called Plantation, which is now know. As Kinning Park.... All were subsumed I to Govan. The buildings shown are the empty flats left behind as people we rehoused in the housing schemes of Drumchapel, Pollock, Penilee, Darnley, Cumbernauld etc. We were moved out in 1965 to Johnstone where a lot of the Glasgow overspill were accommodated. Many people found homes in the tower blocks of Ibrox, the Moss Heights, Penilee etc. We still had relatives who lived in the tenements awaiting rehousing and we watched the demise of the area. I can still smell that Aroma that accompanied the knocking down of old buildings. I was 8 when we moved. What has never ceased to amaze me it that Harpers memorial Church, what was Plantation Parish Church (scene of many family weddings, christenings, funerals, and Sunday worship along with various activities) and Lorne Street School (albeit some of it missing) are still in the area. The flat we left was in good condition, others were moved in on a temporary basis. Our building was pest free, the tenants, were good re cleaning and maintaining. It was not council owned! And the mark of 'wealth'.... The wally close. Seemingly our factor was reasonable re repairs..... We had an inside loo (bliss), wash house out the back and it worked! The steamie was also visited as was the bath house within it. Lorne St Scholl had a swimming bath open to the public after school hours. Everyday living was made easier by moving but because of the lack of forethought many new places sprang up without shops. People were used to buying fresh every day, fridges were needed, washing machines, extra beds as kids moved into their own rooms etc.... Altho we see the film as slums we essentially are looking at housing being emptied and people moving on.. Some of those wide open spaces were used for council rented cabins made of wood. They were temporary, cold and damp but provided shelter until Glasgow caught up with it's housing deficit (it never has....)
Poor wages, awful working conditions and terrible housing. Human relations corrupted by uncaring and unfair/unjust economic and social conditions. Is it possible that the greater number of people were/are happy? I find it hard to believe.
9mins in, Govan X, Govan Road, . The Aitken Memorial Fountain is a well known and much loved landmark of Govan Cross. It was created in 1884 and is the only surviving example of the decorative, cast iron drinking fountains produced by Cruikshanks & Co.’s foundry at the Denny Works, Stirlingshire. Dedicated to the memory of Doctor John Aitken - a local doctor rumoured to have died from overwork due to his dedication to serving the medical needs of the area’s poor - it has stood for more than 120 years at the head of Water Row.
Plantation. My gran stayed in Wallacegrove place and my granda was the night watchman when the new houses were built on the plantation site. My gran moved to plantation Sq( no 39) when it was all finished. Ive also been down that tunnel
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My mother and father came from that area and had a good enough life. I suppose it’s what your expectations are. I come from Renfrew but I think the Govan people are down to earth and take life as it comes. Same as the rest of us. There are rich and poor in every area.
I’m offended, as a woke gen z of today don’t these older people realise that they are ruining our future, I mean it’s not as if it was bad then, we’ve got it tougher .
I do not think it could have got any tougher ,John, as you say. My mother came from that are. Blackburn street. Plantation street, And they had nothing, I was bombed during the war and they ended up in big flats at pollockshaws with no curtains, beds, or Chairs. They had orange boxes to sit on. How could it get any tougher. She was only 10.
@@susanlaird5154 a wee bit of satire aimed at the most privileged, wealthy, healthiest, consumer mad generation ever, our parents and grandparents had it really tough but this younger generation are so spoiled.
