I came from Florence Street in the Gorbals in Glasgow in the Sixties and seventies, it was a great place to grow up, I'm still in the Southside of the City but up in Crookston now, but I'll always be a Gorbals Guy. 😎🇬🇧👍

Genuine thanks for all your recent uploads, Alex. I've found them all fascinating (though, of course, sometimes depressing) to watch. Keep up the excellent work, as finding this kind of footage has long been a real struggle on KZread.

My family was born there and we look back with love.... how about a clip on the rowing club. My Da was part of the Crookston Castle Gang.

Loved this especially the video at the start, I was shocked to see myself for a few seconds (the young lad in the crutches with the caliper brace on his right knee). I had a really bad accident that required major surgery, after repair I ended up getting T.B. in the bone, again open up to scrape the bone. My mother was told that I would not walk again without a brace, however after about a year the brace was tossed and back to football haha. I was born and grow up in a single end 3 up on 300 Florence street in the 50s and 60s until I moved to Castlemilk, fond memories as a kid chasing the rats with broken drain pipes, and the "duny" filled with manky water at the bottom of the close in the backcourts, every disease possibly filled them. Thanks again for posting this.

@alexglass

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing GMB your personal experience Alistair.

@maryc5144

Жыл бұрын

I was born In 318 Florence st moved to Easterhouse then London then Canada now USA I have the best memories from the Gorbals

I enjoyed the ref, to Benny Lynch, I met him when I was a child when my uncle was on leave from the RAF during the war. My uncle Wllie McCamley who lived on at 235 High St ( the one with St Mungo mural) also boxed and often sparred and trained with Benny,. I had 4 sons and my uncle told me never to allow them to box as it damaged the brain. My mum. Who knew Benny cried when he died just after the war. , So many memories. Thanks to all who contributed,

Alex I forgot to say how much I enjoyed your video of the Campsie , Stirling area, My mums maternal line came from there.. I only visited there once about 1944, had forgotten how beautiful the area is. There was not a great deal of fun travel during war time and it was time consuming…you always had to carry a wee jeelie piece.

Brilliant that Wuman was Class.

Good people

8:03 Please note: it wasn’t just the people in the “better tenements” that kept them spick & span. I remember my grandmother’s tenement, with floor joists so bad that I could slide on the lino down from the window to where the floor levelled out. It was always clean & tidy. Every close had a rota for cleaning the shared stairs & toilet, with chalk or limestone used to whiten them.

pie & beans on a friday night in the cafe next to the citizens late 60s .bitter sweet great days.the wee shop at 44.18 had a big sign in the window elvis has died the morning i went in to buy cigs

Great 👍

My dad was born in lawmoor St 1942,he was the second youngest of 7,,I'm doing my ancestry an finding most of my dad's side came from gorbals..I'm now 60 an just finding out where my family history lies,,the gorbals an garngad..🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥰🥰🥰🥰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

My family came from the gorbals and moved to Pollok at that time. I remember my granda telling me stories about him running about with Benny Lynch.

@williamhutchison6400

10 ай бұрын

Everybody's grandpa ran about with Benny lynch

@mstrwul1

10 ай бұрын

@@williamhutchison6400 😂no doubt.

My uncle Tommy lived in the Gorbals along with his family his 2 brothers and 3 sisters including a baby sister also he gave me a book called Gorbals children as his pal and sister was in the book also he told me something about the Gorbals Vampire him his brothers plus my dad who was in Govan and his 3 brother and sister all went looking for the vampire along with hundreds of other kids

I still have my gorbals scars after falling out a landing window that had no window frame in Kidson street lucky I landed in mud and just missed a railing and ended up in Florence street clinic

@alexglass

2 жыл бұрын

William when did you move from the Gorbals?

@wboyle9721

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexglass Hi Alex I was always visiting with my parents as we had friends family in Kidson street Cavendish place the north tenements around the Kidson street school were still standing crown Street north of Cumberland Street and most of Crown Street this was about 1968 most of gorbals Street was intact too and Abbotsford place and north of there I remember lennox store and all the shops cafes etc it was a great place I remember going to the park at lomax factory about 3 years old and Queen Elizabeth flats were there loved you video Alex well done I knew loads of people from the gorbals as a teenager some great people 👍

@alexglass

2 жыл бұрын

@@wboyle9721 if you take a look at a discussion forum called Urban Glasgow you will be able to see a lot of the Gorbals you remember. There is a great collection there of old black and white photos. Highly recommend a visit

@wboyle9721

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexglass will do I think norrie done a lot of photos too best wishes Alex PS the backcourt of Kidson street looked on to the old Dixon blazes I fell out the window in the middle block as there was 3 blocks

@alexglass

2 жыл бұрын

@@wboyle9721 yeah all Norris’s photos are there too. It’s been a while since I visited the site but I will try and find the name of the thread for you

Fuck sake . I`m 56 years old exiled from Paisley since 1985 . I can still remember as a wee boy playing in a bombed out WW2 house across the cobbled street from our second floor tenement flat. Your videos Alex are not exactly Pathe News Queen Victoria era . To my mind they are still recent history . Despite this current Ting Tong inspired pandemic , we can all appreciate how the standards of lifestyle have ultimately been raised in our modern era .

The Eastend of Glasgow was and still is the biggest poverty area in Glasgow.

Who needed mobile phones, computers,tablets remote this and remote that. They managed with what they had. It really any better now? Are people really happy with this rat race we live in. Everyone wants to be better than prayers..