That's the many times world champion Alex Duthart on drums 🥁

Hey mate, can i use some of the clips of your video for my channel?

My Granmothers family were all brought up in Dykehead - Surname Dillet - i dont supose there are any Dillets still in the aerea

Music dreadful.

Really fantastic find! The year I was born! What a shame the narrator has a horrible rp accent. I'd have loved a Scottish accent but in those days a Scottish accent was seen as inferior!

Oi lost moi virginity up this ere bing to an old farmer oi did.

Moved from winchburgh to Shotts 1997 ,what a great place . Been welcomed by everyone.

Git yer hawns oot yer pockits ya shotts faced stovies sooker!.

The miners rows - probably much the same as when my Grannie left Dykehead in the 30s - i kinda like the music it fits the eerieness you get from looking back on the past

My Grandfather Danniel Cunningham worked down the pits in Shotts - so did my Grannie actually before she had kids - my Grannies brother Tam Dillett got killed down the pit in a pit accident - they moved to Boness to the pit there but i think there are still Dillets in Shotts i could be wrong tho - a few generations later i still feel a connection to Shotts strange tho it may seem

My grannie came from Dykehead but moved in the 1930s - her maiden name was Dillett - maybe there are some Dillets still there

Pastoral beauty ? - thats stretching it a bit

My Grannie came from Shotts - her maiden name was Dillet - i think there may be some Dillets still there - she lived in Dykehead . I remember my mum used to lay flowers on her grannies grave at Shotts Kirk and also on one for someone called Sonny Dillet who i think was a cousin

Shotts is a shit hole

Before drugs n general lazy scumbaggery ruined the place.

I was born in Lanark but lived the early in Currieside Ave, seeing the old footage brings back a smile, my family emigrated to Australia late 1964..............

Hello! Myself and Chloe Allison are doing a documentary about the history of Shotts and are showcasing it at the Henderson Theatre on March 22nd. Chloe has written a song about the "old days" and we were wondering if we could use some of the footage on your channel to accompany the song?

I stay there

Do people forget that 4 families sayed on every level of these flats,when I stayed there and asbestos was found it was pushed under the rug.Giving people cash to wallpaper over the tape after council TOOK IT OUT! How did they manage that?Makes me worry when I saw all the dust blow in all directions.Sorry don't trust the council can anyone inform me of how it was as in Asbestos was took out THANKS

TheRobv435 - Unfortunately I don't have the video clip on my PC anymore (I deleted it after I uploaded it here). However, you should be able to find a KZbin downloader and 'acquire' a copy that way.

Wonderful pictures, but had to turn the sound off after a minute because the 'music' is utterly dreadful and spoils the whole thing!

When was the footage taken?

This is a real gem - I was a fan. I used to buy all their LPs and record the band at competitions on my old reel-to-reel portable tape recorder !

great video 5/5

This is not smouldering it when cold air blowing across the surface of the bing.

geeez my dad is in this video!!!! canny believe it!!!!

lol bonkers eh

Reminds me of 9/11. Damn government lies!

Great video. Thanks for sharing. I will use it in my presentations if you do not mind (full credits to you). I research smouldering combustion and have been studying Scottish bings for some time now. This bing has fuel to smoulder for several years more. Is the local council aware of the problem?

Hiya canthill3 (good name!) - thanks for all your comments! I know what you mean about life in the old days - I'd a grandad who worked down the mines in Shotts and some of the stories he could tell you... well I'm just grateful I'll never have to put in a days work like that. Unfortunately I've uploaded all the old videos I have, but I'm hoping somebody out there has more and I've maybe inspired them to get those uploaded to KZbin!

Hiya Graham - we got close, but somehow the cameraman just managed to miss out Salsburgh when he was filming Kirk O' Shotts!

Hi Jim - thanks for stopping by. Glad you enjoyed the upload!

Wull your killing me here ,i dont start work till monday but i cannot stop watchin this stuff ,God bless the old cinecamera

Wull thanks for this again,when i seen part 1 i was too eager too pass it on as you might see in my comment ,but again how great is it too see life your mam and dad used to talk about,they had a hard life then and nowadays myself included could not put a good hard shift in.But you have made my night bud and i am pretty sure you will have more than 187 views in the next couple of weeks .Keep them coming

Fantastic i could have watched another hour of this ,finished too early.I have a lot of friends who will love this,plus me being a bonaccord supporter well ! that was way cool seeing what it was like way back then at Hannah Park. Thanks for this and if you have anymore please show them .You are now my fav youtuber KUDOS

This is fab,im gonna share it with my old bonnaccord drinking buddies,maybe there in this film reel.

Fantastic my name is Graham Millar and I was brought up in Shotts and now live in Salsburgh, but Shotts is always in my heart

superb My name is Jim Nicol I grew up here I now live in LA

@jscotty232 Unfortunately the video was probably a copy of a copy of a copy before I got my hands on it, so it's pretty bad quality and looks older than it likely is. If you look at 4:34 you can see the Pat Boone album 'Tenderly' which came out in 1959. I don't remember the waterwheel down Rosehall Rd - was that down the Tank Brae near the bridge?

My brothers & I were born down Rosehall Rd at the waterwheel this looks earlier than the 50's

Indeed, this smoulding fires can last for year. Great video. Thanks!

Interesting. Must come and have a look!