First went to the "Barras" as a 5yr old kid 62-63 with my grannie from the Halfway,(S Lanarks),remember the old kitchen up the stairs with the wooden floor with table and benches where you went for you dinner, my grannie always wore a fur coat,I think she bought it there!

i really miss Paddys market went their every weekend

I agree The Barras is not what it was - but then what is - having said that if you can be arsed going there with an open mind there are still a few of the old type Barras traders here and there and still few wee hidden gems - and still a lot of really nice down to earth folk with their Glasgow humour .There is still good stuff to be found if you take the time and have a wander round every area - its just a shame so many folk have turned their back on it like a load of sheep - then the same folk will be getting their knickers in a twist when it goes the same way as Paddys

That wee wummin summed it up..and it was from the heart.

The barras died years ago when the organized gangs moved in chased out all the characters.

The Barras is away to the dogs

I remember Paddy's market having a meal of pigs. trotters and potatoes in the sixties I now live in London lovely memories

@weeclaire85 Paddys Market was a famous brig a brac area part of the Saltmarket area of the east end of Glasgow. It closed down a few year ago but it was where you could buy anything basically and it was run by generations of working class familys for over 200 years. Hope this helps!

@starrchild254

3 жыл бұрын

It was closed down due to the smack dealers from hope house and the junkies destroying the place

@mephistopheles9233

Жыл бұрын

​@@starrchild254Anyone of that description was a by product of the adjoining hostel (Hope House), which was itself in receipt of a Glasgow City Council contract. Paddy's Market was not the problem. The hostel was. Unfortunately, Paddy's Market was the fall guy, the scapegoat. Get yer facts right pal!

was apprenticed in Oxford Street in the Gorbals, used to visit this place many times, shame on the council for closing one of Glasgow's most famous destinations, as usual, shows no forward thinking, I remember in the 60's when they were knocking down all the old tenements, it suddenly dawned on them to keep them and refurbish them, some beautiful old buildings were lost and used as infill for the Castle street flyover

Hahahaha MIsterGlasgow's a legend, subscribed.

R.I.P Paddys market. Still lying empty after all these years, the council promised it would be developed. Closed down supposedly because of the SA hostel next door, which was quickly sold off by the council as soon as they shut Paddys. The drug dealers that were the supposed problem and reason for the closure just walked up the st to sell their wares there instead. A whole community of local people and 200 years of culture wiped out by the council for a few ££.... The guy who ordered the closure was Gordon Matheson, who got arrested for performing sex acts on a guy in a carpark. He replaced his chum Stephen Purcell who got caught doing cocaine in council buildings in more sex scandal. The irony is too much to take. If you earn more than £20 a day (total after tax) in Glasgow- the council will take up to £1400 off you a year for their "services". If you dare miss a payment by a couple of weeks, they employ private companies to harass you for another couple of weeks before kicking your door in and taking your stuff. They then sell it for peanuts and give some of the money back to the council, who shove it up their noses (and god knows where else !).

@saturn1returns

Жыл бұрын

Well said.

I used to love paddys market, it's a disgrace they closed it

I loved ' Paddys Market' !! I got my first two tone suit there when i was a mod years ago. And my dad swore by the place,he was down there every day rain or shine ! There was a cafe in the middle of it all that was the best place ever you could get the worlds best Rib Dinner !! Ribs,cabbage and totties ! Mmmmmmmmmmmm !

@glasgowjimmy5392

9 жыл бұрын

my da was the same with the old brigit once the drug dealers took over punting smack and hash and whatever else it took the heart and soul out of the place

ma granny used to go there every weekend, still got the boxes of out of date buscuits lol

The mussels and vinegar is still good a get them most weekends down the barras

hear hear julie i love it too

@glasgowdmon Yeah I did thanks pal thats a shame bout it closing down a shame for all those woman too

Are these the Spice Girls today ?

Aye the `barra`s` are bitter, no more honest bargains anymore & what happened to all the characters that used to frequent it?, the place is a pick-pocketing nightmare now. The standards have fallen in my opinion.

The old Bridgate was the business.

Wat was Paddys Market

So, there really was a Paddy's Market? I thought it was just a saying for a busy, noisy place! Seriously.

@starrchild254

3 жыл бұрын

It was actually called the brigait, it was a place you bought second hand stuff and bric a brac along with a few cafes and whelk and muscle sellers. Then it got overrun with smack dealers and junkies. Paddies market was really just a local name for it

hope the GEAR shop in the background is false advertisin

Easy solution. Don't vote Labour

when shall we three meet again!

@martinmckenzie2829

6 жыл бұрын

hearditman mm Mad dog maglish a

That's not a nice thing to say, i feel a bit offended by that, you are getting your emotionless world though, well done, if you are from glasgow you should know better

the desire for a society where fairy tales don't get special privilege is to blame? who's your crack dealer? he needs to put your dosage down a bit.

the barras died oot in the 80s, too many rockets and pakistanis now, sorry i did like the barras but its a dump now,,,

blame marxism and the dsire for a secular society for places like this getting closed, its heppenig everywhere.

@ImmediateArts

4 жыл бұрын

Marxism promoted fascism; Mussolini and Hitler were both influenced by Marx as to how to set up a dictatorship. But what has the need for a secular society to do with it? Sectarianism is evil - look at what it did to Ireland. And is still a big problem in Glasgow.

@manoutoftime9057

3 жыл бұрын

I've been cogitating over this post for the best part of a decade and it is still a total heap of shite. Screwball.

fucking hard to understand. What kind of English it is?

@ImmediateArts

4 жыл бұрын

Why are you admitting you can't understand basic English?