Loved this one. I'm eighty and live in Australia now but still remember my daddy helping me onto those lions. Was there when our late queen paid her first visit after her coronation. Follow all your vids.

We I've lived in Glasgow for72 years and I have just learned facts I hadn't known before. Thanks, and I have subscribed to learn more about the City of my birth, well they say it's never too late to learn.

My wife and I love Glasgow and try and visit as often as possible and I can thoroughly recommend the city chambers visit, George sq to me is the heart of Glasgow and it’s where I gravitate toward my wife on the other hand loves the people’s park and that’s where she goes to feel totally relaxed and enjoy her morning walks, greetings from Ireland,

Brilliant Dave. Keep them coming and we'll hopefully catch you on a tour. Thank you. Micky Kerrigan

I would dedicate a statue to Dr June Almedia, a Glaswegian scientist who discovered corona viruses in the 1960s. She was from Denniston and couldn't afford to go to uni.

I was born at 99 Dundas street just around the corner. Spent much of my childhood at the square when it had lots of grass. Thanks for the memoriesQQQ (May)🇨🇦

@mattymaloy3949

4 ай бұрын

Is the building still there?

James Watt, truly an astonishing Greenock lad.

I cant wait until they finally spruce the square up! Its let down so badly by the state of the paving

Fantastic video How about doing one on the Battle on battlefield Road

@AstonishingGlasgow

4 ай бұрын

I started filming this episode last year but the story got bigger and I need to film some more locations to be able to tell it.

Great video Dave. I'm willing to bet that this is the episode with the least distance travelled, this not being a Postie life is showing through. Joking aside another fascinating episode and I have indeed sat on a bench to eat my Greggs on many occasion.

@AstonishingGlasgow

4 ай бұрын

I have been terribly un productive for videos since I left RM but training courses, job interviews and holidays have left me with less video time than working every day :-D I filmed some of this episode on the way back from a job interview which is why I had no bike with me. Thank you again for your support mate, Dave.

I'm late but, MR BILLY CONNOLLY, shouldn't even be a question, let's not wait until he passes before he gets properly recognised in his own toon, great stuff as always though, Glashu go bragh.

@racheltaylor6578

2 ай бұрын

There are huge murals of him all over Glasgow.

@AstonishingGlasgow

2 ай бұрын

I made an episode about the murals; kzread.info/dash/bejne/qmp-pbuLm66pgag.html

Brilliant videos

Very interesting, thank you. Sorry they removed some of the trees. 😢

You missed one statue. At the top of the city chambers there is a Statue of Liberty, most people don't realise it's there. Have a look, you will see it.

@AstonishingGlasgow

4 ай бұрын

You might want to watch episode 24 😉 kzread.info/dash/bejne/qZqbstWdhr3UlJc.htmlsi=G_8UzACEk7ekiEhS

@gordonross6250

4 ай бұрын

I hadn't seen that episode.@@AstonishingGlasgow

James Watt was born in my home town of Greenock on the Firth of Clyde. There is a statue of him there, and the docks are called the James Watt Docks. He's a very big deal in Greenock!

I’m taking bets on how long the Oswald statue will last😂😂

wonderful my dude, very well informed of you and always a joy to watch and learn

Fabulous journey!👍👏👌

Alex Ferguson should have a statue on the square.

Good video. Shame about College of Building and Printing building spoiling some of the shots.

@AstonishingGlasgow

4 ай бұрын

Its currently under a major renovation so shouldn't look so derelict soon.

Thanks!

Very interesting. Thanks

William Gladstone inherited slave money too - his father owned huge slave-run sugar estates in Demerara (modern day Guyana)

Good luck,I hope you get the job,I seen in freakbewk you were initially planning something else,but handy since you were @ interview nearby.Good stuff as usual. To me,the square has never felt the same since they got rid of the red tarmac on the deck there. Weird! Statue of YOU! for educational services. I've never heard polis in Glesga called 'bobbies',it's usually a very word beginning with a B and ending in an S. 😆 The size thing was fascinating btw. Maybe have to doing MY measuring at night though!😉

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Fr Toronto an reincarnated as following King James of Scotts. Very nice we'll done 💯 Loved it

Great video mate when's the next walk planned ? Cheers

@AstonishingGlasgow

4 ай бұрын

Thanks. Announcement coming soon about the next walk.

I must see what is in the timecapsule!

Yes to Ghostbusters!

Amazing video as always, love the work you do. Cliché to say but for a modern statue on the square I'd have to say the big yin himself. A man of great talent and charity that's carried the spirit of Glasgow around the world with him, and deserves a long long rest. Can't say he'd deserve the pigeon poo though

I think at least one statue of Billy Connolly is inevitable at some time.

I’ll know if there’s a little crowd around that measuring plaque when I seek it out that they are fellow subscribers 😂 Id vote for a statue of Andy Murray 😉

I had no idea that statue was of Sir Walter Scott. I've walked past it all my life but never really looked at it proper. It's maukit. Why can't they get a jet blaster out. And give a homeless man a job? Seriously. SNP council for you! I feel so much better about the square thank you for sharing this. Its amazing to walk through such brilliant Scots. God bless their souls.

Easy one ... Billy Connolly should have a statue. Great wee stories ...keep up the good work. 😊

NB: I was ASTONISHED to see what’s been done to the ‘oldest house’ in Glasgow High St- Instead of being dated at 1471 (I think) Now it looks like it belonged to Easternouse - 1960s…… WHO did that, and WHY?

@AstonishingGlasgow

4 ай бұрын

I think the provans lordship looks great now. It now has the lime (?) rendered finish it would have had when new.

Another entertaining and informative video from you. BTW James ‘Paraffin’ Young is buried just down the hill from where I stay.

@AstonishingGlasgow

4 ай бұрын

Thank you and James Young may get a bigger part in a future episode, he only played a cameo in this one.

Freedom Square.

I know it’s astonishing Glasgow mate But could you do one in Renfrew please as there is loads of history there

We get 2 nicknames of for police from Peel. Bobbies, and the original nickname for Metropolitan Police, Peelers.

Thanks Dave for another amazing video. I was always told to see Glasgow at its best, always look up (at the architecture). Alas you have proven this to be wrong as we would never see the likes of the fascinating calibration gauges or the plaque to the victims of Hiroshima.

Has to be the big yin Billy Connolly !!!

"...he moved to Edinburgh for some reason..." Ah, there speaks Glasgow! In the fifties, we learned the poem "The Burial of Sir John Moore in Corunna"---but not a hint that he had been a Scot. Ah, British Empire propaganda! Thank you for this.

It's Sir John Moore not Muir. Charles Wolfe wrote a famous poem about his death.

@AstonishingGlasgow

4 ай бұрын

I did notice I switch between both in the video.

They'd be turning in their graves at the state of the place and the questionable (hotel) residents these days.

@matthewalexander8752

4 ай бұрын

They would also turn if they knew The City Chambers was SOLD- Don’t know to whom or when? Now rented back to the Council….!

Definitely the Big Yin, I'm sure he find it hilarious that he'd be getting shat on by seagulls for eternity. Can't believe I've never noticed the measurements, will need to have a nosy.

The lord clyde statue should definitely go, he is probably the worst person with a statue there giving the whole quelling a rebellion in India thing.

Astonishing whit man check the place oot man.

Glasgow city council should clean the statues on a nightly basis. Look how maukit they all are. There's moss on the GOMA, walked past that recently. It looked like Banksy had spray painted the pillars green. And the Duke of Wellington had swear words sprayed on it!

@scotlandthebrave334

4 ай бұрын

P.S. Braw video thank you!

@AstonishingGlasgow

4 ай бұрын

Thank you. It hit home to me when I dug out the pic of Rabbie Burns in the tartan tammy that I took in 2014 and realised how clean and shiny he was and how dull they are now.

@scotlandthebrave334

4 ай бұрын

Alex Salmond was in charge of Scotland going for Independence. And the Labour Party were in council in Glasgow. SNP are ruining our city. You're a true patriot anyway. Everything our city needs. We need guys like you in the city council. I mean that sincerely!@@AstonishingGlasgow

@scotlandthebrave334

4 ай бұрын

Why don't you run for local council. GO FOR IT! Susan Aitken couldn't name these statues! WE NEED YOU! Fix the people's palace. They let the winter gardens wither and die. We need new clydesiders. You are a new clydesider with your vlog! @@AstonishingGlasgow

@AstonishingGlasgow

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for the support but dont print up the election posters just yet. I have plenty of opinions on what could be better but I have no appetite for the arguing and negativity that comes with politics. I choose to focus on the positives in our city and try and show why we should be proud to be from Glasgow. I will let the politicians and councillors fight it out and there are good councillors out there, they just need our support when you find them.

Nobody. They are no more people like them now.

Billy Connelly deserves a statue in the square. How about a video about the buildings around the square.

Robert Burns. A man's a man for a' that! **my apologies** Trigger warning! For anyone at Glasgow University!

Sadly , the question is ...how much of Glasgow was built with slavery trade money ? More than a lot !

@AstonishingGlasgow

4 ай бұрын

Its fair to say that almost all of Glasgow's trade (and every other industrialised city of the time) in the 1700's involved slave trading in some way. Im not even close to being qualified to discuss it fully but remember that there was also a lot of people in Glasgow who opposed slavery and helped to get it banned.

@matthewalexander8752

4 ай бұрын

Not to mention the tobacco barons..!

I’ll tell who shouldn’t have a statue, whoever designed the new frontage of Queen Street station, thought the old one was bad, whit an eyesore…

JOHN MACLEAN

@AstonishingGlasgow

4 ай бұрын

Did you know he pops up in episode 47? kzread.info/dash/bejne/npydvJJwqMirp7A.html

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