Filmed in 1987 using music from the1960’s, a camera from the ‘70’s and a narrator from the Battle of Culloden.
@irnbrubhoy4 жыл бұрын
Fuckin tremendous comment m8 spot on
@jamiemcintosh3054 жыл бұрын
hahaha funny
@gingerindian11414 жыл бұрын
I wasn't aware I was from the Battle of Culloden !!!!
@lenvine4 жыл бұрын
Lool. Spat my tea!
@allosaurusfragilis77824 жыл бұрын
Lmao this made me lay a wee bukka cranky pullet egg 😂😝🐓
@MaliciousChickenAgenda4 жыл бұрын
Didn't realise Greggs had been in George Square for so long.
@MrPoupard6 жыл бұрын
My thoughts aswell.lol
@BuckfastConsumer5 жыл бұрын
Greggs - making fat lassies happy for over 30 years.
@seldom_seen_kid5 жыл бұрын
That Greggs wasn't on George Square, it was on another street further down
@ajayjackson77275 жыл бұрын
i remember it being there in 1982
@madhaggis15 жыл бұрын
A J Your correct. It was on Queen Street just down from one of the corners of George Square I’m sure it was.
@whangie14 жыл бұрын
I used to walk these streets . Ah the fun me and my pals had back then will never be forgotten. Thanks.
@gedmcgaffin12554 жыл бұрын
What streets you walking these days cowboy.?
@euanscotland3 жыл бұрын
Great video. I live in the US now, miss Glasgow when it looked like this. Remember the Glasgow's miles better logo for the garden festival.
@stephenmcghee74082 жыл бұрын
Got my first watch aged 12,my dad always went the the same watchmaker at the barras it was a timex, great memories, I'm now 61 living in SA.
@1gerard47 Жыл бұрын
Fascinating. We can't go back but with videos like this we can always visit.
@hilarityensues5 жыл бұрын
Good old Len, I knew him well. He passed away in Canada last year. RIP
@alzyerpal-TV Жыл бұрын
Sad to hear this.😢
@patricksmodels5 ай бұрын
This is facntastic Len, I was born in Glasgow in 1987 and it's incredible to see what my beloved city looked like in the lats 80's.
@johnjoe9938 жыл бұрын
Awwct I was 17, we go tay the barras on Sundays for years me and mammy & Daddy good auld days that you can't get back but memories brilliant thanks.
@sha.375 жыл бұрын
I graduated from Glasgow Uni in 1987. Four Bernard Mathews Turkey Burgers were 89p. A Maharani boil in the bag curry was about 79p. We used no heating whatsoever for three years in our frozen hovel in Kersland Street. Ah, we were poor, but we were miserable.
@craigross3414 жыл бұрын
And to boot, your University degree is probably worthless. Or are you one of the successful stories?
@robertmcmillan36384 жыл бұрын
@@robertmcmillan3638 Glasgow Uni degrees in the 1980s weren't worthless. About 5% of the population went to uni. Guys I know took ten years to get one. Some departments had zero Firsts year after year. Now some of them hand out 40% Firsts. Trying to acquire some understanding of anything, with nothing to help you but unreadable books and articles, in a system where people were perfectly happy to fail you and nobody cared if you were upset, was all quite something.
@craigross3414 жыл бұрын
@@craigross341 Back in the 70's and 80"s they weren't worthless of course but they are worthless now as almost everyone has them who's under 40, with more graduates being added each year to the low paid workforce, call centres etc to compete with. If you've been working in your studied sector though since the 80's or 90's then that experience is worth more than any degree would be.
@robertmcmillan36384 жыл бұрын
@@robertmcmillan3638 Yes, but if the qualification signalled a stable ability in the 80s when it was awarded then I might have a real ability now not possessed by someone who'd had one doled out later. Others might recognise that. Seeing this is the kind of thing they taught me, or - perhaps - was an ability I had to have to get in. That's another distinction the class of '87 quickly and easily draws.😄
@craigross3414 жыл бұрын
@@craigross341 not what you know but who you know!
@missy34293 жыл бұрын
Brilliant video, brought back memories. Loved seeing the old Leyland Atlanteans, the corpy buses, even a single decker conversion! Maybe because I'm a Coach driver but used to drive similar vehicles and love classic vehicles of all types.
@alistairshaw32063 жыл бұрын
they single-decker Leyland Atlanteans were on the number 98, Queen St.-Central shuttle. Previously (before Strathclyde orange) there were even-smaller Seddons. Proper buses but mini-bus sized!
@keef712 жыл бұрын
man after my own heart
@davechristopheringram6452Ай бұрын
Great seeing the barras in this video. I was 13 in 1987 and used to head up every Saturday morning with my mates to buy knocked off computer games. Best of days.
@stuartcollie22704 жыл бұрын
Same m8 we used tae dog school in a amusements that was just round fae argyll street up fae were argos is now canny mind the name ae it good times
@biggdogg998483 жыл бұрын
I remember Microsoft got the Barras raided a few times for pirate software. One time the MS Software was on sale in the Barras before Microsoft had released it in the UK!
@172Break Жыл бұрын
I was in the Tolbooth bar last weekend. It hasn't changed a bit!
@malcolmjcullen10 ай бұрын
RIP Len thanks for this wonderful archive I had the pleasure of conversing with you over Facebook many times your loss is felt profoundly.
@Elliott158 ай бұрын
Ah Glasgow the first time I went was in 1991 and I loved it, the sights, the sounds the people! So friendly and down to earth. I laughed for days.
@Vinesy684 жыл бұрын
Glasgow in the mid 90's to early 2000's was probably the best.
@robertmcmillan36384 жыл бұрын
Good old days. Perhaps the best days
@akyja17144 жыл бұрын
I was 14 then and I recognize most of the faces at the barras. Brings back both good and bad memories.
@mr.giggles21883 жыл бұрын
Little did you know, you were preserving a bit of history.
@matthewsmith-rm6qc3 жыл бұрын
I could have been one of the wee boys at the start. I was 12 that year. I would go into Glasgow every month to buy books. Sometimes I would go in with my Ma and we would have our dinner in a hotel called Stakies. Good days!
@T1tusCr0w9 ай бұрын
Thanks for this Len I was born in 1986 cool to see what it was like back then.
@martinalexander6518 жыл бұрын
Great to see people interacting with the camera rather than being hostile as is now quite common these days. The difference in The Barras from then to now is very sad.
@rezhead3 жыл бұрын
I went to the Barras recently and it broke my heart...
@paullacey29993 жыл бұрын
Great video, thanks for sharing. I feel very old though now!
@fionamcdonald84727 жыл бұрын
Oh my goodness, I’m almost 60 now and it seems no time ago when those cars haircuts and clothes were the height of fashion…..I’m sooooo old!!!!
@Steampunksaly2 жыл бұрын
❤😂it’s great though! Glasgow in the eighties. Loved it!
@eleanorsopwith980621 күн бұрын
Good old film. Thanks for sharing
@Alanvids3 жыл бұрын
Great video!! Good to see Glasgow in better days..
@ajayjackson77275 жыл бұрын
I was 15 in 1997... about same age of the kids in George Sq. Lived in EK, but started working in Glasgow in 1990. I remember much of this. Great video. ☺
@brianmchugh84197 жыл бұрын
Great times.
@robertmcmillan36384 жыл бұрын
Being 15 in 1997 would make you around 8 in 1990.
@stephenmcconnell1000 Жыл бұрын
Sprog
@alanwhite712710 ай бұрын
Great wee film buddy...thank you...
@GlasgowGallus6 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it, Glasgow Gallus.
@lenvine6 жыл бұрын
Three great lads at the beginning. I wonder where they are now
@alisonlee33145 жыл бұрын
Boy two is currently going through the transition and can be seen regularly, dressed in heels and a mini skirt feeding the Glasgow starlings.
@johnnymcknight23304 жыл бұрын
Boy1- jail, boy2- on the herion; then died, boy3-killed a cunt then killed himself( statistically speakin ;) )
@neilcampbell84993 жыл бұрын
Great to see the 80s my era seems like yesterday as Glasgow never grows old to me fab to see . thanks
@truthseeker16234 жыл бұрын
Not 1 person on their phone lol
@chrisgemmell27423 жыл бұрын
Visited Glasgow in 87 and thought it was a lovely city ,some grand buildings
@zxz110 ай бұрын
Brilliant Brings back a lot of memories.
@rossjl3 жыл бұрын
Superb I remember the onion chopper guy and we bought one off him
@landyjock9774 жыл бұрын
amazing video. Thanks
@stephenmcgonigle32387 жыл бұрын
The barras! Ah remember paddies market you could get a dead rat for a halfpenny' back in the day wae a bowl of peas and pish
@lesallan31814 жыл бұрын
Wow! Didny know Rab C selt wummins claes up the Barras 😂
@ronnie_gaffney90873 жыл бұрын
Excellent wee video of bygone Glasgow...unlike the usual filming, he lingers at each place giving the viewer time to soak in the details, instead of the usual 5 seconds...wish he'd filmed the old and very distinguished looking guy at the barras who used to sell the jewellery/watches...the camera was just a few feet away from his stall, but never turned towards it...
@stuartleggat71764 жыл бұрын
Thank you for those kind words. As a kid I lived at Abbotsford Place, Gorbals, and when I went to visit the area in 87, looked like a bomb had hit the place. There was nothing left except for my old Abbotsford School. I live in Canada, and often like to go back to dear old Glesga to see my sister and her family. That film was one of the many film to video transfers I do as a business. It's all wonderful nostalgia.
@lenvine4 жыл бұрын
Not a mobile phone in sight. How refreshing.
@stevenholt4584 жыл бұрын
They're coming. Just over the horizon ...
@phillipecook32274 жыл бұрын
@@phillipecook3227 It was about another 12 years until mobile phones became a thing for the average person in Glasgow.
@robertmcmillan36384 жыл бұрын
Robert McMillan things were so much easier back then. How times have changed.
@stevenholt4584 жыл бұрын
They existed then but we're enormous, basic and very, very expensive.
@stevebinning9773 жыл бұрын
Were not we're. Bloody autocorrection again.
@stevebinning9773 жыл бұрын
Is that kid a pigeon whisperer? Or did he bring some broken pigeon into the city to see how the others live?
@genghis264 жыл бұрын
Sweet wee film
@iangalbraith19934 жыл бұрын
Been to Glasgow once,really loved it,the people were great and helpful
@voiletwhitehorse3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant year for me 1987. Good seeing it on film. Wee guy with the doo in the square? 😂
@raibeartthehairypict46964 жыл бұрын
Govanhill....wonderfully diverse.
@charliemctruth7 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed watching this... I used to work down the Barras then... I saw very familiar faces.
@andrewdavidloch3607 жыл бұрын
Yep but Peter Peden the curtain man was missing
@ajayjackson77275 жыл бұрын
I'm in greenock. Great vid pal 👍
@detectingadventuresscotlan60353 жыл бұрын
Ahh Glasgow fantastic city fantastic people I can remember going to the barras with my parents 70s to early 80s some characters there always selling wheeling and dealing some good bargains to I still visit Glasgow when I can love going there 🏴👏
@rickster10110 ай бұрын
A lovely specimen of pigeon , it’s been bitten by a rat 😂😂 those wee guys are brilliant 😂😂😂
@cazmac6665 жыл бұрын
Aren't kids funny !
@lenvine5 жыл бұрын
They'll be over 40 year old now
@mikeyteee954 жыл бұрын
Great footage of The Barras.
@DjSciFly3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, The Luz. I'd like to see your music video.
@lenvine7 жыл бұрын
bloody well done . Nice document !
@UnauthorisedService4 жыл бұрын
Let Glasgow Flourish
@charliemedia51116 жыл бұрын
filmed with a 1960s camera by the looks of it
@unconvincingrebel8 жыл бұрын
+Kcuf elgoog You're right, Super 8 movie film came out in 1965, and the camera was made around 1970. Kodak are actually reviving Super 8 in the fall of 2016.
@lenvine8 жыл бұрын
+Len Vine Kodak is still there? Its shrunk about 99%
@atombomb314588 жыл бұрын
Kcuf elgoog just as well since cameras of the 80s where in a transitional period and where of shit quality
@shugthehornyhaggis7 жыл бұрын
@@lenvine looks like the same camera used in the bob dylan documentary eat the document.
@bobdylanger27105 жыл бұрын
A sony
@1gerard47 Жыл бұрын
Great wee trip dowm memory lane love to see the fish van come back again
@katemartin335210 ай бұрын
Cracking footage of the time and a turning point of history.Modern Glasgow is still fascinating but has entered another chapter in terms of changing population.
@gordonstenson27088 ай бұрын
It’s like a different city to the one I grew up in. It’s sad to see the decline of the city centre.
@scottconnor88677 ай бұрын
Brilliant!!
@peterbrown64344 жыл бұрын
+ GAVIN IRVIN AM AFRAID UR WRONG ABOUT THE QUALITY OF VIDEO CAMERAS IN 1987, AS I HAD A VERY GOOD SONY CAMCORDER THEN WITH SMALL TAPES, I HAVE JUST GOT THEM PUT ONTO DVD'S RECENTLY WHICH R OF GREAT QUALITY OF MY SON AS A BABY, HE WAS BORN IN 1986 BRILLIANT TO LOOK BACK AT MY SON AS A 1/2YR OLD VERY HAPPY MEMORIES FOR MY FAMILY, I HAVE WATCHED THAT DVD SO MANY TIMES , IT'S LIKE GOING BACK IN TIME SUCH CLEAR FOOTAGE ALSO OF THE DUCK BAY MARINA AT LOCH LOMAND LOL
@robertmcintyre46537 жыл бұрын
Cheers for posting this.
@stuggypren7445 жыл бұрын
I worked as a Night Porter in THE COPTHORNE HOTEL(George Square) in 1987 lol
@Jason-kc4yr3 жыл бұрын
I've never seen tame pigeons that allow you to handle them on George Square!
@eccIefechan8 жыл бұрын
If pigeons recognise you as friendly over time , they'll probably come right on to you if you sit still enough.
@robertmcmillan36384 жыл бұрын
Its no from George square - its a pigeon that couldnae fly because it got bitten by a rat and the boy just brought it into the city center for a day out
@williamf45444 жыл бұрын
1:40 check the wee ginger guy and his pigeon in the background. Hahahahahaha brilliant.
@Venom84194 жыл бұрын
Danny Ferguson what for?
@weescott2k104 жыл бұрын
That was a nice we wander down memory lane.
@sharinhamilton3712Ай бұрын
I remember going into town in the 80s with my mum when I was little on they big orange corpy buses (I was born in 1979). I fuckin hated them lol loved it once I was in the city centre though coz I got to chase all the crabbit pigeons 😂 and then we'd go for a wimpy burger. My dads an antique dealer and he used to take me down the Barra's and the Brigit. I was always amazed by how many people he knew
@MaliciousChickenAgenda4 жыл бұрын
I remember the buses in green,white and yellow too!And you had a Transcard to travel on them.....
@paullacey29993 жыл бұрын
Buses wae leatherette seats that yer legs stuck tae whilst wearing shorts in the summer. 78 ah wis born, I remember the Lite Bite doon St Enoch wis ah treat fir a wee pup like masel.
@thewaspsanklessmith2 жыл бұрын
The boy with the pigeon is hilarious 🤣
@kenandchr4 жыл бұрын
Fuxking loved old school barras
@vinny69673 жыл бұрын
to len, great little movie I you managed to capture my mates dad's fish caravan on which you and I knew as Abbotsford place once, l lived in pollockshaws rd , then moved down south in the late 70s
@jimbo1701588 жыл бұрын
That's right len, have you checked out abandoned Scotland, Cumberland st railway station, recommended, take care mate enjoy
@jimbo1701588 жыл бұрын
I've always liked George's Square.
@yellowfolder8 жыл бұрын
Also it's magical
@paulfrewzy73744 жыл бұрын
You wouldn't like it as much now. For a time it was called red square when the Council had taken the grass away. But it should be called red square now because it's full of leftwing socialists doing protests for this, that and the other every other weekend.
@robertmcmillan36384 жыл бұрын
Robert McMillan oh aye they like to call it freedom square - they can GTF Good video 👍
@09weenic4 жыл бұрын
Robert McMillan don't forget it gets sold to the Banks a few times a year for wherever scheme they are going to rob you for . The army and police like to have a "public awareness day" there too.. You ll also notice the homeless get shifted from there pronto.... Freedom? A thing of the past- cheers Nichola.
@dopesensi4 жыл бұрын
@@dopesensi The SNP has RUINED Scotland and the real kick to the head is they walk away with a almost clean sweep of 50 +plus seats at election times. The numbers don't add up? Consider how many people are in Scotland then consider how many are eligible to vote?, Then how many people ACTUALLY bother to vote then split the votes up between all the political parties. So where does the SNP get all this so called support from? Not that many people ARE actually voting for them but the SNP keeps making claims that they "speak for the people of Scotland". NO They bl0000dy well DON'T! And they certainly DON'T have the right to dictate to the rest of the UK. Nigel farrage got more votes down south than Scotland has eligible voters in the first place by but the reality denier's in the SNP think that they can stop Brexit, spend like crazy with NO results, have Hospitals fall apart, roads and infrastructure fall apart, immigrants flood in, no prospects for the advancement of society and they still think they are "winning" Why has Nicola Sturgeon, Alex salmond, the SNP and that Green party "harvie" guy who backs them up not been investigated?
@robertmcmillan36384 жыл бұрын
Sports socks two pair fur a pun
@johncarlin87556 жыл бұрын
Hawl, edgy.
@segamegadrive39035 жыл бұрын
Mega Kunt hawl games a boagie
@kegalormoon5 жыл бұрын
School dinner caramel slices for two bob.
@crafter1703 жыл бұрын
Get yer lighters.
@nottheguardian79553 жыл бұрын
Ah, Greggs. Back in 1987 a packet of cheese salad sandwiches from there was about 48p !
@oddities-whatnot4 жыл бұрын
I belong to Glasgow xo
@douglasfraser89605 жыл бұрын
As a young teenager who visited Glasgow frequently, it looks like an ancient time, to anyone watching this 🤣🤣🤣🤣..I feel as if I'm.watching a film from decades before 1987. Where does time go!!! It was really coming into its own. With City of Culture and the Garden Festival. It was exciting times for the city. Unfortunately its lost its appeal. Its not the city it was.
@jkm874110 ай бұрын
In 1987 we would have been watching a film from 1945...does that make u feel old? Oh and is that Gordon Strachan at 2.30?
@badgerbhoy95344 жыл бұрын
Speak for yourself bud. 1987 i was watchin robocop n adventures in babysittin or watever the azad had new. U mean in comparison to the time difference between now n 87- 87-45? You're still wrong.
@neilcampbell84993 жыл бұрын
@lenvine we need an update 👍
@Simpaulme9 ай бұрын
The "magnificent building" you mentioned in George Square? Well, it became what it is because the plans orginally were drawn up to be for the new Co-operative Headquarters. Those plans however were rejected by the powers that be in the Cooperative. Instead, they chose the blue prints put forward by another architectural company for a building that be would become the Cooperative Headquarters. Many decades later, The Co-op Headquaters building was eventually sold, and it's outstanding features were incorporated into the private residential apartments one can see to this day.
@dodiesdiary4 жыл бұрын
Really? I'd always heard that it was the other way around and that the Co-op building was a rejected design for the city chambers
@mikeyteee954 жыл бұрын
Best city in the world..
@mrt90315 жыл бұрын
True ... 👌
@shanabeg83594 жыл бұрын
My home in North Glasgow for the past 40 yrs, years has been overrun by a thousands of economic migrants, halal butchers and African North & sub Saharan shops. Multiculturalism has ruined a once great community. Thanks Nikola.
@raibeartthehairypict46964 жыл бұрын
you look and see the shops .most are gone now ,
@harryjockstrap86994 жыл бұрын
4:38 that Greggs is STILL there
@mimilangelier4425 Жыл бұрын
Good wee video , cheers.
@neilweegee63993 жыл бұрын
the cam makes it seem way more back in time than it was but it seemed futuristic to 4 year old me in 86 - the first time i went on an underground train. Having said that, 80s britain was grim as fuck in general.
@Monty-or9sb4 жыл бұрын
What was the camera used? It feels like 1977 rather than 1987? Interesting stuff.. but I still feel it wasn’t long ago. I must be getting old 🫤
@waynester717 ай бұрын
glesgaz finest!!!😲
@brian816 жыл бұрын
Time warp! Interesting video.
@dct19 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it. I only wish I had video of the Gorbals before they demolished it, particularly of our street, Abbotsford Place.
@lenvine9 жыл бұрын
ahh 1987.. when i was Minus 4
@Cypher7917 жыл бұрын
A was born in 79 an Am a proud memory holder from aww these day's, mist probably felt a touch of depression way back n these era's but hey wit aboot noo ! ffs, most them folks in this ur Probably well deed now an to me that makes it aww that wee bit more magical and almost mitastical, Long Live Glasgow wee Are the ppl
@paulfrewzy73744 жыл бұрын
This is the Glasgow I remember!
@SpookyElectric3194 жыл бұрын
This is the ONLY Glasgow you would want to remember. 90's was the best though imo, right up to about 2003 (ish).
@robertmcmillan36384 жыл бұрын
Too many asylum reekers pollution our great city 🏴
@colinneale41824 жыл бұрын
@jemimallah Who mentioned "crime"? But now that YOU have brought it up, do you know that Govanhill is an absolute "hell hole" that resembles something from a third world Country which is unacceptable considering that it's Nicola Sturgeon's constituency. R@pes are happening more. Junkies are fighting with the immigrants for the best begging spots in the City centre also. People are getting in to real trouble with landlords because of this, that and the other. At least back in the 90's to early 2000's, people had hope for a brighter future and what was there in Glasgow at the time was good enough. Don't know where you've been?
@robertmcmillan36384 жыл бұрын
@jemimallah Here's a link among many if you don't believe me www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/09/24/snps-justice-policies-attacked-violence-sex-crimes-surge-scotland/amp/
@robertmcmillan36384 жыл бұрын
@jemimallah No reply? Thought so. That shut you up, didn't it.
@robertmcmillan36384 жыл бұрын
the camera looks 20 years older than that, the narrator dude looks like he's in a living room (and wardrobe LOL) from 1977, and Glasgow looks like Gotham in the 2019 Joker film
@rymacreeks2k072 ай бұрын
what has hapend to the barras the last time i was there just before chirsmas it was like a shell off its self . in the 90s i uest to go every sunday all the way from edinburgh.
@jamesaitken7448 жыл бұрын
James Aitken. I strongly suspect the City Council is allowing it to run down. That way, they can say it's unprofitable, and will sell the land on for new student accommodation. It's pretty depressing now, fake DVDs and dodgy tobacco 🙁
@alisonlee33147 жыл бұрын
Alison Lee The quicker the Barras is gone the better. The only bit to stay should be the Ballroom.
@brianmchugh84197 жыл бұрын
All the way from Edinburgh? ?? That's mighty far. I hope you packed a sandwich.
@euanscotland5 жыл бұрын
the indoor market should still be open, me used to sell jumpers back in the 80s and 90s!
@mohsin07785 жыл бұрын
In 1987 I was up the Barras buying copied Amiga games and bootleg cassettes!
@Philliben19919 ай бұрын
Imagine the price of Greggs then, it was probably 15p for a sausage roll
@boboayame20652 ай бұрын
Mount of antiques just sitting there
@rangers169074 жыл бұрын
"Tell us about yer pigeon" "Well, it's been bitten by a rat, see" Welcome to Glasgow, eh?
@simonjones772711 ай бұрын
No way has Greggs been there that long😂😂😂😂
@sumguy527 ай бұрын
Are those wee boys from Barlanark? I think recognise two of those faces.
@JK-zx3go4 жыл бұрын
Fuckin barlinnie more like. Especially the wrong wi that pigeon
@neilcampbell84993 жыл бұрын
Can't be fae bar L with posh accents like that.
@anthonysmith2714 Жыл бұрын
I was 9.....god its brings back so many memories being down the barras
@GATSU19799 ай бұрын
When the barras were Good!
@delores64585 жыл бұрын
3:55 that was still a greggs in 1987?? wtf that actually made my jaw drop
@Baby_Penguin019 ай бұрын
Glasgow city centre is unfortunately a dump nowadays 🙁🙁🙁🙁
@lido64579 ай бұрын
Spent so many great times in this city, especially govan, was down recently and everything has gone or changed
@albaproductions96023 жыл бұрын
Govan so different now!Remember the Govan fair with all the fancy floats....And the shows in Elder Park.....
Filmed in 1987 using music from the1960’s, a camera from the ‘70’s and a narrator from the Battle of Culloden.
Fuckin tremendous comment m8 spot on
hahaha funny
I wasn't aware I was from the Battle of Culloden !!!!
Lool. Spat my tea!
Lmao this made me lay a wee bukka cranky pullet egg 😂😝🐓
Didn't realise Greggs had been in George Square for so long.
My thoughts aswell.lol
Greggs - making fat lassies happy for over 30 years.
That Greggs wasn't on George Square, it was on another street further down
i remember it being there in 1982
A J Your correct. It was on Queen Street just down from one of the corners of George Square I’m sure it was.
I used to walk these streets . Ah the fun me and my pals had back then will never be forgotten. Thanks.
What streets you walking these days cowboy.?
Great video. I live in the US now, miss Glasgow when it looked like this. Remember the Glasgow's miles better logo for the garden festival.
Got my first watch aged 12,my dad always went the the same watchmaker at the barras it was a timex, great memories, I'm now 61 living in SA.
Fascinating. We can't go back but with videos like this we can always visit.
Good old Len, I knew him well. He passed away in Canada last year. RIP
Sad to hear this.😢
This is facntastic Len, I was born in Glasgow in 1987 and it's incredible to see what my beloved city looked like in the lats 80's.
Awwct I was 17, we go tay the barras on Sundays for years me and mammy & Daddy good auld days that you can't get back but memories brilliant thanks.
I graduated from Glasgow Uni in 1987. Four Bernard Mathews Turkey Burgers were 89p. A Maharani boil in the bag curry was about 79p. We used no heating whatsoever for three years in our frozen hovel in Kersland Street. Ah, we were poor, but we were miserable.
And to boot, your University degree is probably worthless. Or are you one of the successful stories?
@@robertmcmillan3638 Glasgow Uni degrees in the 1980s weren't worthless. About 5% of the population went to uni. Guys I know took ten years to get one. Some departments had zero Firsts year after year. Now some of them hand out 40% Firsts. Trying to acquire some understanding of anything, with nothing to help you but unreadable books and articles, in a system where people were perfectly happy to fail you and nobody cared if you were upset, was all quite something.
@@craigross341 Back in the 70's and 80"s they weren't worthless of course but they are worthless now as almost everyone has them who's under 40, with more graduates being added each year to the low paid workforce, call centres etc to compete with. If you've been working in your studied sector though since the 80's or 90's then that experience is worth more than any degree would be.
@@robertmcmillan3638 Yes, but if the qualification signalled a stable ability in the 80s when it was awarded then I might have a real ability now not possessed by someone who'd had one doled out later. Others might recognise that. Seeing this is the kind of thing they taught me, or - perhaps - was an ability I had to have to get in. That's another distinction the class of '87 quickly and easily draws.😄
@@craigross341 not what you know but who you know!
Brilliant video, brought back memories. Loved seeing the old Leyland Atlanteans, the corpy buses, even a single decker conversion! Maybe because I'm a Coach driver but used to drive similar vehicles and love classic vehicles of all types.
they single-decker Leyland Atlanteans were on the number 98, Queen St.-Central shuttle. Previously (before Strathclyde orange) there were even-smaller Seddons. Proper buses but mini-bus sized!
man after my own heart
Great seeing the barras in this video. I was 13 in 1987 and used to head up every Saturday morning with my mates to buy knocked off computer games. Best of days.
Same m8 we used tae dog school in a amusements that was just round fae argyll street up fae were argos is now canny mind the name ae it good times
I remember Microsoft got the Barras raided a few times for pirate software. One time the MS Software was on sale in the Barras before Microsoft had released it in the UK!
I was in the Tolbooth bar last weekend. It hasn't changed a bit!
RIP Len thanks for this wonderful archive I had the pleasure of conversing with you over Facebook many times your loss is felt profoundly.
Ah Glasgow the first time I went was in 1991 and I loved it, the sights, the sounds the people! So friendly and down to earth. I laughed for days.
Glasgow in the mid 90's to early 2000's was probably the best.
Good old days. Perhaps the best days
I was 14 then and I recognize most of the faces at the barras. Brings back both good and bad memories.
Little did you know, you were preserving a bit of history.
I could have been one of the wee boys at the start. I was 12 that year. I would go into Glasgow every month to buy books. Sometimes I would go in with my Ma and we would have our dinner in a hotel called Stakies. Good days!
Thanks for this Len I was born in 1986 cool to see what it was like back then.
Great to see people interacting with the camera rather than being hostile as is now quite common these days. The difference in The Barras from then to now is very sad.
I went to the Barras recently and it broke my heart...
Great video, thanks for sharing. I feel very old though now!
Oh my goodness, I’m almost 60 now and it seems no time ago when those cars haircuts and clothes were the height of fashion…..I’m sooooo old!!!!
❤😂it’s great though! Glasgow in the eighties. Loved it!
Good old film. Thanks for sharing
Great video!! Good to see Glasgow in better days..
I was 15 in 1997... about same age of the kids in George Sq. Lived in EK, but started working in Glasgow in 1990. I remember much of this. Great video. ☺
Great times.
Being 15 in 1997 would make you around 8 in 1990.
Sprog
Great wee film buddy...thank you...
Glad you liked it, Glasgow Gallus.
Three great lads at the beginning. I wonder where they are now
Boy two is currently going through the transition and can be seen regularly, dressed in heels and a mini skirt feeding the Glasgow starlings.
Boy1- jail, boy2- on the herion; then died, boy3-killed a cunt then killed himself( statistically speakin ;) )
Great to see the 80s my era seems like yesterday as Glasgow never grows old to me fab to see . thanks
Not 1 person on their phone lol
Visited Glasgow in 87 and thought it was a lovely city ,some grand buildings
Brilliant Brings back a lot of memories.
Superb I remember the onion chopper guy and we bought one off him
amazing video. Thanks
The barras! Ah remember paddies market you could get a dead rat for a halfpenny' back in the day wae a bowl of peas and pish
Wow! Didny know Rab C selt wummins claes up the Barras 😂
Excellent wee video of bygone Glasgow...unlike the usual filming, he lingers at each place giving the viewer time to soak in the details, instead of the usual 5 seconds...wish he'd filmed the old and very distinguished looking guy at the barras who used to sell the jewellery/watches...the camera was just a few feet away from his stall, but never turned towards it...
Thank you for those kind words. As a kid I lived at Abbotsford Place, Gorbals, and when I went to visit the area in 87, looked like a bomb had hit the place. There was nothing left except for my old Abbotsford School. I live in Canada, and often like to go back to dear old Glesga to see my sister and her family. That film was one of the many film to video transfers I do as a business. It's all wonderful nostalgia.
Not a mobile phone in sight. How refreshing.
They're coming. Just over the horizon ...
@@phillipecook3227 It was about another 12 years until mobile phones became a thing for the average person in Glasgow.
Robert McMillan things were so much easier back then. How times have changed.
They existed then but we're enormous, basic and very, very expensive.
Were not we're. Bloody autocorrection again.
Is that kid a pigeon whisperer? Or did he bring some broken pigeon into the city to see how the others live?
Sweet wee film
Been to Glasgow once,really loved it,the people were great and helpful
Brilliant year for me 1987. Good seeing it on film. Wee guy with the doo in the square? 😂
Govanhill....wonderfully diverse.
I really enjoyed watching this... I used to work down the Barras then... I saw very familiar faces.
Yep but Peter Peden the curtain man was missing
I'm in greenock. Great vid pal 👍
Ahh Glasgow fantastic city fantastic people I can remember going to the barras with my parents 70s to early 80s some characters there always selling wheeling and dealing some good bargains to I still visit Glasgow when I can love going there 🏴👏
A lovely specimen of pigeon , it’s been bitten by a rat 😂😂 those wee guys are brilliant 😂😂😂
Aren't kids funny !
They'll be over 40 year old now
Great footage of The Barras.
Thank you, The Luz. I'd like to see your music video.
bloody well done . Nice document !
Let Glasgow Flourish
filmed with a 1960s camera by the looks of it
+Kcuf elgoog You're right, Super 8 movie film came out in 1965, and the camera was made around 1970. Kodak are actually reviving Super 8 in the fall of 2016.
+Len Vine Kodak is still there? Its shrunk about 99%
Kcuf elgoog just as well since cameras of the 80s where in a transitional period and where of shit quality
@@lenvine looks like the same camera used in the bob dylan documentary eat the document.
A sony
Great wee trip dowm memory lane love to see the fish van come back again
Cracking footage of the time and a turning point of history.Modern Glasgow is still fascinating but has entered another chapter in terms of changing population.
It’s like a different city to the one I grew up in. It’s sad to see the decline of the city centre.
Brilliant!!
+ GAVIN IRVIN AM AFRAID UR WRONG ABOUT THE QUALITY OF VIDEO CAMERAS IN 1987, AS I HAD A VERY GOOD SONY CAMCORDER THEN WITH SMALL TAPES, I HAVE JUST GOT THEM PUT ONTO DVD'S RECENTLY WHICH R OF GREAT QUALITY OF MY SON AS A BABY, HE WAS BORN IN 1986 BRILLIANT TO LOOK BACK AT MY SON AS A 1/2YR OLD VERY HAPPY MEMORIES FOR MY FAMILY, I HAVE WATCHED THAT DVD SO MANY TIMES , IT'S LIKE GOING BACK IN TIME SUCH CLEAR FOOTAGE ALSO OF THE DUCK BAY MARINA AT LOCH LOMAND LOL
Cheers for posting this.
I worked as a Night Porter in THE COPTHORNE HOTEL(George Square) in 1987 lol
I've never seen tame pigeons that allow you to handle them on George Square!
If pigeons recognise you as friendly over time , they'll probably come right on to you if you sit still enough.
Its no from George square - its a pigeon that couldnae fly because it got bitten by a rat and the boy just brought it into the city center for a day out
1:40 check the wee ginger guy and his pigeon in the background. Hahahahahaha brilliant.
Danny Ferguson what for?
That was a nice we wander down memory lane.
I remember going into town in the 80s with my mum when I was little on they big orange corpy buses (I was born in 1979). I fuckin hated them lol loved it once I was in the city centre though coz I got to chase all the crabbit pigeons 😂 and then we'd go for a wimpy burger. My dads an antique dealer and he used to take me down the Barra's and the Brigit. I was always amazed by how many people he knew
I remember the buses in green,white and yellow too!And you had a Transcard to travel on them.....
Buses wae leatherette seats that yer legs stuck tae whilst wearing shorts in the summer. 78 ah wis born, I remember the Lite Bite doon St Enoch wis ah treat fir a wee pup like masel.
The boy with the pigeon is hilarious 🤣
Fuxking loved old school barras
to len, great little movie I you managed to capture my mates dad's fish caravan on which you and I knew as Abbotsford place once, l lived in pollockshaws rd , then moved down south in the late 70s
That's right len, have you checked out abandoned Scotland, Cumberland st railway station, recommended, take care mate enjoy
I've always liked George's Square.
Also it's magical
You wouldn't like it as much now. For a time it was called red square when the Council had taken the grass away. But it should be called red square now because it's full of leftwing socialists doing protests for this, that and the other every other weekend.
Robert McMillan oh aye they like to call it freedom square - they can GTF Good video 👍
Robert McMillan don't forget it gets sold to the Banks a few times a year for wherever scheme they are going to rob you for . The army and police like to have a "public awareness day" there too.. You ll also notice the homeless get shifted from there pronto.... Freedom? A thing of the past- cheers Nichola.
@@dopesensi The SNP has RUINED Scotland and the real kick to the head is they walk away with a almost clean sweep of 50 +plus seats at election times. The numbers don't add up? Consider how many people are in Scotland then consider how many are eligible to vote?, Then how many people ACTUALLY bother to vote then split the votes up between all the political parties. So where does the SNP get all this so called support from? Not that many people ARE actually voting for them but the SNP keeps making claims that they "speak for the people of Scotland". NO They bl0000dy well DON'T! And they certainly DON'T have the right to dictate to the rest of the UK. Nigel farrage got more votes down south than Scotland has eligible voters in the first place by but the reality denier's in the SNP think that they can stop Brexit, spend like crazy with NO results, have Hospitals fall apart, roads and infrastructure fall apart, immigrants flood in, no prospects for the advancement of society and they still think they are "winning" Why has Nicola Sturgeon, Alex salmond, the SNP and that Green party "harvie" guy who backs them up not been investigated?
Sports socks two pair fur a pun
Hawl, edgy.
Mega Kunt hawl games a boagie
School dinner caramel slices for two bob.
Get yer lighters.
Ah, Greggs. Back in 1987 a packet of cheese salad sandwiches from there was about 48p !
I belong to Glasgow xo
As a young teenager who visited Glasgow frequently, it looks like an ancient time, to anyone watching this 🤣🤣🤣🤣..I feel as if I'm.watching a film from decades before 1987. Where does time go!!! It was really coming into its own. With City of Culture and the Garden Festival. It was exciting times for the city. Unfortunately its lost its appeal. Its not the city it was.
In 1987 we would have been watching a film from 1945...does that make u feel old? Oh and is that Gordon Strachan at 2.30?
Speak for yourself bud. 1987 i was watchin robocop n adventures in babysittin or watever the azad had new. U mean in comparison to the time difference between now n 87- 87-45? You're still wrong.
@lenvine we need an update 👍
The "magnificent building" you mentioned in George Square? Well, it became what it is because the plans orginally were drawn up to be for the new Co-operative Headquarters. Those plans however were rejected by the powers that be in the Cooperative. Instead, they chose the blue prints put forward by another architectural company for a building that be would become the Cooperative Headquarters. Many decades later, The Co-op Headquaters building was eventually sold, and it's outstanding features were incorporated into the private residential apartments one can see to this day.
Really? I'd always heard that it was the other way around and that the Co-op building was a rejected design for the city chambers
Best city in the world..
True ... 👌
My home in North Glasgow for the past 40 yrs, years has been overrun by a thousands of economic migrants, halal butchers and African North & sub Saharan shops. Multiculturalism has ruined a once great community. Thanks Nikola.
you look and see the shops .most are gone now ,
4:38 that Greggs is STILL there
Good wee video , cheers.
the cam makes it seem way more back in time than it was but it seemed futuristic to 4 year old me in 86 - the first time i went on an underground train. Having said that, 80s britain was grim as fuck in general.
What was the camera used? It feels like 1977 rather than 1987? Interesting stuff.. but I still feel it wasn’t long ago. I must be getting old 🫤
glesgaz finest!!!😲
Time warp! Interesting video.
Glad you liked it. I only wish I had video of the Gorbals before they demolished it, particularly of our street, Abbotsford Place.
ahh 1987.. when i was Minus 4
A was born in 79 an Am a proud memory holder from aww these day's, mist probably felt a touch of depression way back n these era's but hey wit aboot noo ! ffs, most them folks in this ur Probably well deed now an to me that makes it aww that wee bit more magical and almost mitastical, Long Live Glasgow wee Are the ppl
This is the Glasgow I remember!
This is the ONLY Glasgow you would want to remember. 90's was the best though imo, right up to about 2003 (ish).
Too many asylum reekers pollution our great city 🏴
@jemimallah Who mentioned "crime"? But now that YOU have brought it up, do you know that Govanhill is an absolute "hell hole" that resembles something from a third world Country which is unacceptable considering that it's Nicola Sturgeon's constituency. R@pes are happening more. Junkies are fighting with the immigrants for the best begging spots in the City centre also. People are getting in to real trouble with landlords because of this, that and the other. At least back in the 90's to early 2000's, people had hope for a brighter future and what was there in Glasgow at the time was good enough. Don't know where you've been?
@jemimallah Here's a link among many if you don't believe me www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/09/24/snps-justice-policies-attacked-violence-sex-crimes-surge-scotland/amp/
@jemimallah No reply? Thought so. That shut you up, didn't it.
the camera looks 20 years older than that, the narrator dude looks like he's in a living room (and wardrobe LOL) from 1977, and Glasgow looks like Gotham in the 2019 Joker film
what has hapend to the barras the last time i was there just before chirsmas it was like a shell off its self . in the 90s i uest to go every sunday all the way from edinburgh.
James Aitken. I strongly suspect the City Council is allowing it to run down. That way, they can say it's unprofitable, and will sell the land on for new student accommodation. It's pretty depressing now, fake DVDs and dodgy tobacco 🙁
Alison Lee The quicker the Barras is gone the better. The only bit to stay should be the Ballroom.
All the way from Edinburgh? ?? That's mighty far. I hope you packed a sandwich.
the indoor market should still be open, me used to sell jumpers back in the 80s and 90s!
In 1987 I was up the Barras buying copied Amiga games and bootleg cassettes!
Imagine the price of Greggs then, it was probably 15p for a sausage roll
Mount of antiques just sitting there
"Tell us about yer pigeon" "Well, it's been bitten by a rat, see" Welcome to Glasgow, eh?
No way has Greggs been there that long😂😂😂😂
Are those wee boys from Barlanark? I think recognise two of those faces.
Fuckin barlinnie more like. Especially the wrong wi that pigeon
Can't be fae bar L with posh accents like that.
I was 9.....god its brings back so many memories being down the barras
When the barras were Good!
3:55 that was still a greggs in 1987?? wtf that actually made my jaw drop
Glasgow city centre is unfortunately a dump nowadays 🙁🙁🙁🙁
Spent so many great times in this city, especially govan, was down recently and everything has gone or changed
Govan so different now!Remember the Govan fair with all the fancy floats....And the shows in Elder Park.....
Full of criminals. Glasgow not a safe place.
Wow, 2 years before a was born.
Glasgow garden festival following year in 88
Is that Rab C selling stuff at the Barras