Then and Now Glasgow. 

I thought a lot of the now pics looked better than the then pics.

@@sansomdela Yep, in the late 60's/early 70's Britain lost its mind and started to think that Soviet style termite colony housing was a good idea.

Thanks. Plenty of debate on that subject. The residents of Cathcart at the time of the battle of Langside were not supporters of Mary so the idea that she stood and watched the battle from Court Knowe is probably Victorian myth and romance. The castle was demolished in 1980. It had stood for 200 years with no roof and became unstable so had to come down before it fell unfortunately.

Oh good I'm going to glasgow on monday

@@cliffsofmoher4220 Did you enjoy your visit to the Dear Green Place😉

@Gerry Helmit too many city in my car now

Thanks Fryodor, I do make it a point to get as close to the original as I can, even when there is a bit of risk involved. If you liked the ferry shot you should check out my footage from the Queen Mary going down the Clyde in 1963 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sYKNFYERoso.html. The car ferry in this video is slightly down stream from the remaining ferry ramps but would have looked the same. Here are the remaining piers and ramps; flic.kr/p/5EUg64

Thanks Mary. I was a Langside student from 1995-1997 and since then they have knocked it all down and re-built it so you wouldnt recognize the place now, especially as they are in the process of knocking down the victoria infirmary.

@@AstonishingGlasgow Knocking down the Vicky?!! Are they leaving Battlefield Rest or is that now long gone?

@@jays2877 Battlefield rest is still there and just celebrated 25 years as a restaurant. The old Vicky has now been replaced by a newer small hospital across the road and the A&E and surgical departments are now contained in a super hospital where the Southern General was. The only part of the Old Vicky that was protected was the small building facing the park entrance but I believe they are going to incorporate the wards in the redevelopment as housing. I have pics on my Flickr page here; www.flickr.com/photos/route9autos/albums/72157675407258336

@@AstonishingGlasgow Thank you so much for that response. I take it that they've sited the "newer small hospital" where the school used to be? I've gone to your Flickr page to have a gander. It was indeed a landmark. I remember it being explained to me as a child that the rounded verandahs (and I seem to remember more than your photos show) were for the convalescence of TB patients who needed the fresh air (probably would have been quite fresh in the early days of the infirmary!). Thank you for preserving memories of the Vicky before it was replaced by more soul-less housing. Glad that Battlefield Rest became a restaurant - hope it's a good one :) I left Glasgow many moons ago and haven't been back for some years and even last time I felt a weird sense of dislocation as there were so many changes. Ah, well, progress I suppose :/

@@jays2877 Yes, the new hospital is where Queens park school was, that burned down around 1996 as I was studying at Langside College when the fire broke out and watched from the window. There were 3 ward blocks on the hospital and they all had verandahs when it first opened but at the time of its closing, two of the wards had their verandahs bricked up. The Victoria hospital was indeed a TB hospital when it was built in the country away from Glasgow city centre but Glasgow soon caught up. I will need to update the folder on Flickr as there has been quite a bit of demolition since the last picture.

Thank you and I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I really should do more as I have plenty more then and now shots on my flickr page and hard drive.

Im glad you liked the video and as said before, all location details and loads more can be found by following the link to Flickr. If I had put text in the video you would have been reading the text instead of looking at the pictures.

Tambo74 Yeah with the lottery results and a few wise investments written down. I'd just win the lottery every week. Then I'd get a time machine built so I could rob the past of all its goodies. By the time I got back I'd be World President.

I guess with your name we shouldnt be surprised that you are talking about becoming world president :-)

BTJustice Haha yeah👍

I'd go back to Edwardian Glasgow with all its pride and splendour, but I'd tell them not to be shocked so much by two World Wars coming their way (both of which would undoubtedly change their city); but the 'real' destruction which took place in the 1960s. They'd be distraught at the thought that much of their (and their parents) hard work would be undone in the the 60s. Grand old buildings torn down, roads widened, trams, as well as a large rail terminus scrapped, whole streets flattened to make way for tower blocks or flyovers. They'd be rightly appalled. For all its 'progressiveness', people forget just how destructive the 1960s were to communities. More damage was done to our cities in that decade than in either of the World Wars.

Im intrigued to know the name of your street now.

It's all about contracts and warming people's hands!

That’s the start of Clarkston Rd. looks much the same now. You can imagine the scene when you pass as I often do.

Not at 3:30 Gary. That picture is Overdale Street just off Sinclair drive in Battlefield.

See the description for link to locations.

I would travel back in time to the Old Smiddy Bar when it was 50p a Pint😉

It's the bandstand in Kelvingrove Park that was renovated.

So has the queens park one I was there the other week

Gail Dalziel The bandstand in Queens Park has been completely rebuilt. Because as you can see in the picture it was demolished. So the they built a new one.

Thats exactly where it is. It was Cathcart house and was lived in by the castle owners when they wanted to expand their living quarters. If you visit the site today you can still see the depression in the ground where the house was.

Delilah Hart That’s black and white photography for you.

Hope you manage to get in touch with your pal. If you are interested in Glasgow content then please do check out my channel. As well as this video there are loads of others about my home city.

@@AstonishingGlasgow Good content yep mate subbed

Have a check on my Flickr page for pictures from all over Glasgow (link in description). The Mitchell library site has loads of good historic Glasgow pics on the Virtual Mitchell and a forum with good resources is hidden Glasgow.co.uk.

Cheers. Follow link in description for locations.

Read the description, link to all the locations is right there.

It was harsh but I guess they thought they were doing the right thing at the time.

That bandstand is the one that was in Linn Park. The thing with the bandstand in Glasgow parks was they all looked very similar as the corporation built them to similar plans so the one in Tollcross wouldn't have looked much different.

@@AstonishingGlasgow Ah, right, I understand. Thanks for reply, and also thank you for putting up the video, much appreciated.

Go to the link and all the locations are with the still photos on my flickr page. If I had put the locations on screen you would have been reading the words rather than watching the video.

@@AstonishingGlasgow - I know what you are saying but a simple name in small fonts at the very top or bottom of the photos certainly wouldn't put me off the actual photo.

Problem I found when trying that is where do I stop? A lot of the locations are in places that need more than one or two words to describe so I decided the video worked as a nice demonstration of the passing of time, regardless of exact location. Sit back and spot the small things that have changed. If there is any of the pictures in particular you would like to know the location of, just ask. I visited all the locations to take the pictures so I can give exact location details.

@@AstonishingGlasgow - Hey No problem. Just a minor criticism of an otherwise good video. Cheers

Clydebank

Which house?

@@AstonishingGlasgow I would take a guess the one at 3:47 but I could be wrong as I've no idea what context he's bringing institutionalised into it, unless he just means knocked down, but again I'm only guessing it's that pic

I was thrown by the institutionalised description as well. At 3:47 That was Cathcart house in Linn park which is now the second largest park in Glasgow. The family that built that were the residents of the castle nearby. The house was demolished in 1927.

I would need to look it up but it came from the you tube audio library. I had to replace Wish you were here by Pink floyd due to obvious copyright issues.

The Luftwaffe

Ironically, Glasgow has been, traditionally, one of the lowest car-owning cities in the UK. But your general point is valid. Too many cars!

Thanks for the feedback but wouldn't it have been easier to turn your volume down?

I can tell you because I took the now pic. Its the cemetery keepers house in Cathcart cemetery and is at the end of Clarkston avenue. It has now been renovated and is a private house again. More picture details and locations on my flickr site, see description.

@@AstonishingGlasgow cheers dude was just interested as abandoned building make great pics but to late now thanks anyway bro 😁

All the locations are there if you follow the link to my Flickr page but that is the old pavilion in Linn Park.

@@AstonishingGlasgow ok mate thanks

See the link in the description for all the location details.

@@AstonishingGlasgow why not just put them in your videos like every other channel. It’s a nice flashback video to watch but not everyone has the time to go tracking down each picture in the video for location and names.

Simple answer is I dont want to. I wanted to show the changes in the city and not have the distraction of text on screen. If people want to know the locations they can go and look them up or be lazy and never know, thats their choice.

That was Bridge Street station.

@@AstonishingGlasgow wasn't it so much better to look at then - so sad

Absolutely but when it stopped being a station the building probably couldn't be converted into much else.

@@AstonishingGlasgow yes you're right

@@AstonishingGlasgowhat’s cause they were so closed minded back then. It could have been a nice restaurant today.

That's the Caledonia road church in the Gorbals.

@@AstonishingGlasgow i thought so, that’s crazy... were those tenements that it shared a wall with or the whole church?

It was surrounded by tenements.