COATBRIDGE TOWNHEAD

[@davidmcswiggan6683]

Many hours spent playing over at the White Fort and the White Gates. Happy days indeed. Thanks for this vid.

[@PaulFrench47]

Loved watching this again. Brings back so many happy memories.

[@Dmamcg1]

Glad you still like it Jim I think it will be around for a long time to come. Got an expensive drone so maybe more to come

[@josephkane829]

Absolutely brilliant video. Brings back so many memories and a few tears. All of my family left Coatbridge many, many years ago. Thank you for filming.

[@krodge9874]

Aye no wonder they left

[@owenrobertson907]

It's a changed place .n people can say what they want .But watching all those streets just brought back so many memories .love townhead always .

[@Dmamcg1]

A lot of us love Townhead Owen. Great place to be brought up

[@eileenmacias6799]

Lovely trip down memory lane. Grew up in Derwent Dr. However, I don’t recognize the back lane the I grow up in. Spent my childhood with friends playing in these lanes with only short fences. We always played in each other’s gardens. Cant do that now it seems, without being closed in.

[@Dmamcg1]

Your correct the back lane is a total mess, if you look at Dochart drive, it looks just like the old days. Also as i said in the video the back lane has 2 or 3 sets of large iron gates

[@petermac7015]

Really enjoyed that, brings back so many memories..lol My first girlfriend lived in lomond rd, my grannie lived in espiside crescent , keep up the good work

[@jimbrown9141]

Great video. A nice wee walk through my past. Looking forward to more.

[@owenmcauley5805]

this has taken me back and brought back many memories, lived near beginning of Lomond rd, thankyou

[@Dmamcg1]

Hi Owen glad you liked the movie I am working on the 2nd part of Townhead. Taking a little time but not too long.

[@owenmcauley5805]

something to look forward to

[@iainloudon8595]

Came across this last week ... very nice surprise to see my house in Thornton Street as I work away from home .. Thank you

[@Dmamcg1]

Glad you liked it Ian.

[@58gizzy]

Grew up in the 60s Lomond Road. Brings back so many memory's as a child. Family name was Curtis

[@Dmamcg1]

I seem to remember the Curtis family,I think you were on Derwent Drive back lane.was 1 of your family called Jamie?.

[@jamesmcginty3849]

Great film Ricky , done like a professional , so many memories in here , well done Richard mc Glinchey, to give you your Sunday title 😎. Star job .

[@Dmamcg1]

Not too shabby Jim. Just seemed right to do. Glad it is bringing back memory’s for you

[@brianjohnston7682]

Lived in Leven Rd, and Belmont St, looking forward to your next part. Grew up there, 1968 'til not that long ago.

[@Dmamcg1]

Hi Brian will cover there in next video

[@brianjohnston7682]

Brilliant, thanks for the reply

[@dellacollins8630]

I grew up on lomond Rd Brian until 76 when family moved to England your name sounds so familiar to me my maiden name was McGowan

[@Marjame100]

The white fort was a sheep dipping station. 👌🏼

[@billyboy1640]

Great video, so many happy memories in Townhead

[@Dmamcg1]

Hi William, glad you enjoyed the video.

[@thomasyoung2458]

Thanks for video can't wait for second part happy times

[@Dmamcg1]

Thanks Tam, glad you liked it, finished the first part at last. Working on part 2 and other projects

[@thomasyoung2458]

Keep this up you are good at this all my family like this as well.

[@brianlennon3153]

Hi , you dont know how lucky you are to be able to look back at videos like this, i came or should i say proudly i come from T ownhead . My family stayed in dochart drive , my names not important but i remember you davy !,!, Swiggy, the second best musician to come from Townhead, how could you possibly beat "Rab and the Toalets" or even brian barry and his band at the tower bar ? Parker Browwn , big Tosh, wee mc cormick , ricky on drums and the legend Harry Harris on guitar , not forgetting Peter Grant on keyboard. Anyway , wullie rutherford , your next door neighbour is still a legend , if you needed a wing man, Frank Fennessey , led Zep freak, and body builder if you needed a drinking partner! He was the man. Then there was T ommy Mackie, he d shag yer granny, but shed think he was doing her a favour😂. I hope youre doing well Swig, B.L.

[@angusmcphail943]

i lived in 71 Derwent drive, also Eric Barrett(Jimi Hendrix roadie). R mc G rings a bell!!

[@Dmamcg1]

Hi Angus,Eric lived 2 doors away from me at 39 Derwent Drive. He has done very well

[@angusmcphail943]

I knew I knew the Name McGlinchey, also Eddie McGuiness, the Weirs and the Hillys ,frank and Tuck .i now live in Australia>Fond memories of sledging down the Hill to the terminus!! laughed that much ,got scurvy!! also mick cox, frank DiNardo, What have they done to Back lane of Derwent drive??? 71,was brand new and it took ages ,with my father, to build up the Garden! Clothes Poles with End of Water Pipe ,then Planted out ,Silver Britch Fence, a Rowan Tree don.t ask where he got them!! Veggies everywhere and Feature Walled Rectangle(heavy )

[@Dmamcg1]

@@angusmcphail943 I remember the Cox family they used to live in Derwent Drive but moved to either Dochart or Dudley Drive. I knew the Hilley family as well, and also the Dinardo family i think they lived in Dochart Drive and the mum was called Rosie.

[@gartsherriejunction4643]

Well done Ricky. You have collated a fabulous nostalgic revisit to a time most have forgotten. Thank you for sharing this with us and hope it brought back happy memories and not sad. Thank you. On another note, for your Part II, why don't you show a video of the railway line from Townhead, the Container Base, through to where RB Tennants were, then out past Carnbroe to the cottage which backs onto the A8. That's an interesting journey. M

[@Dmamcg1]

Thanks for the nice comment

[@Dmamcg1]

I lived in that cottage, it is called Orchard Farm Cottages

[@kevinmccormick1112]

Great Video Ricky! I stayed in Teviot St for 30 year's, I think you might know me? The phone box scene, if you look closely at the brick wall behind the phone box. There was a lane here that took you to the back lane at Derwent Drive. Also, the road from the White Gates to Glenboig, I recall this being called the red ash road? Thanks Kevin McCormick

[@Dmamcg1]

number 7 by any chance?

[@kevinmccormick1112]

@@Dmamcg1 lol, yes Number 7!

[@annemorris3752]

First pictures you can see my gran’s house on the corner before you went up the hill. She lived at 92 Doune Terrasse. Annie Bowden.

[@Dmamcg1]

Glad the family enjoyed it Tam

[@Dmamcg1]

Your right Owen it will always be my

[@chriswalsh1892]

Top video.

[@chriswalsh1892]

Kris McGlinchey says hi!

[@tammi3121]

Love it... but ...the music? Come on...

[@MrGordonhaining]

Ok I was in one of the first families to be housed in Townhead after the war from Turner st slapup Dudley Drive was my my home and it’s still in the family The wee fort was originally an anti aircraft gun emplacement jurying the war Then used by British rail as a rail siding The wee wids and the unknown were my my back garden and Dudley Drive was our fitba pitch as no one had a car Long before Townhead primary was built Tay street was my school Great place to grow up in the 50s and 60s great time to grow up in happy memories running riot in these streets every door open and a piece n jam and a poke o chips was always gladly given in Dudley Drive