Driving in the West of Scotland - North Carbrain, Cumbernauld - September 2021

[@davidtodd907]

A very nostalgic trip down memory lane for me. great memories of growing up in the town as an 10 y/o kid in 1965 ( Stonylee). This video captures where my wife and I lived after we got married in 1980 ( Glenhove) and moved away in 1984. Very depressing to see how run down the place is now.

[@ETHXN689]

My house was in this…

[@bluzrokluvr]

I took a walk through some of these areas I knew so well as a kid in the early 60's, and teenager in the 70's, from the bright spanking new houses I remember with friendly neighbours, its now a dark gloomy sh*thole where you wouldn't want to walk in the dark. BTW it can't be a Saturday morning, some people are up, maybe not washed but at least they're up!

[@GS-in8zf]

im surprised they asked for rent , can you imagine what it was like there in lockdown,

[@bobbywingnut6749]

Real nice... Thanks

[@ZL54JK8]

So, 60 years have passed and this is what it has become! My parents moved to Cumbernauld new town round about the mid-sixties, and we were the first people to live in what I thought was quite a nice house in Seafar, one of the then three districts of Cumbernauld. I had little reason to go to Carbrain except perhaps to visit someone, but even then I disliked it. The local paper, "The Cumbernauld News", described a condition they termed "New Town Neurosis" that afflicted young housewives forced to spend their days cooped up in their houses with their uniform, geometric gardens encased by a high stone wall. At least then the place was new and fresh. Now it suggests a residential gulag, drab and dreary and miserable. People deserve better than this! The architects and planners who came up with such an abomination should have been made to live there, but of course they never did. The post-war urban planning vision that brought about the new towns in Britain was comprehensive in its scope. Cumbernauld was one of five new towns in Scotland. Architects were keen to get commissions and to win awards, but, at least as far as Carbrain is concerned, they were oblivious to real people and their every day needs. People are not economic units. They not only need to, but deserve to, live in an area that has an organic unity and a sense of community. And this is what is has become. It made me quite sad to watch this!

[@GS-in8zf]

i went up to visit ravenswood a few years back , got of at cumbernauld station walk up past st josephs and the first thing that came to mind was , what a dump every house looked run down and the people werent in great shape either, and yes at the begining it wasnt so bad , my parents also moved to ravenswood in the late 60s,,, might even know you lol,

[@martin-d4h]

A lot of the planners did indeed live in the town. The houses in castle way, next to Cumbernauld park were built for the people working on it , architects, engineers etc. Still one of the best places to live in the town. So they did live in the town, they just decided Carbrain and other areas were not for them, they chose well.

[@martin-d4h]

@@GS-in8zf Was down in Ravenswood last week, it looked okay to be fair.

[@Graeme566]

Cumbernauld is central Scotland not west.

[@WilliamColIins]

My house was on the video! (Not the flats I don't live there that's ugly

[@smartieplum]

Dystopian nightmare. Driving around and around, no way out. Houses are utterly grim

[@neilhilton35]

They are like brick garden sheds. However they are home to some people and we have to remember that 😢😮

[@craigward2710]

Flat roofed houses in the west of Scotland. Marvellous idea.