Old World Glasgow, Scotland: 1860-1899 Oldest Known Photographs, Celtic / Roman Ruins & Architecture

Howdy ya’ll.
Let’s get back into the Old World Series of videos where we will focus on the oldest known photographs of specific cities throughout history.
Today, we will focus exclusively on Glasgow, Scotland. I’ve assembled for your viewing pleasure the oldest known photographs of Glasgow that I could find. We will address the images while discussing the history of Glasgow, according to the officially recognized timeline.
We will hopefully find some anomalies and other cool inconsistencies which we can point out, but either way, it’s quite breathtaking to walk through Glasgow in the mid 1800s.
All these photographs and images are dated to before the year 1900, with a majority dated to 1877 or earlier. Enjoy the collection - and leave your thoughts down below!
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[@davidwilcox8786]

ive been to scotland 4times and was just blown away by the architecture in glasgow stirling and edinburgh

[@ErnstZundel45]

U should visit St Andrews next time you're back also Perth 👍

[@pmac2597]

They told us at school the tobacco barons built the city

[@phoenixrising5088]

All Cities in Scotland have amazing Architecture. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@martinkerr2721]

@@pmac2597 never herd a teacher in my School in Glasgow ever say that n first time i have herd this

[@pmac2597]

@@martinkerr2721 first time u heard this ? U been living in a cave or something

[@TopBananna]

Govan boy here, I work in the city every day and it's sad to see the buildings that are falling into disrepair. Also my interest in the churches built in Glasgow, so many seem to have been built from 1860 - 1890 according to the official narrative. Dozens of near identical gothic style churches all spring up within a 30 year period. Love the videos

[@martinkerr2721]

never thought of that when you see aw they churches built the same mate ,

[@Camille_Anderson]

gothic architecture is stunning, i wish we had more, tbh. The P I. ist still there, but not much else is recognisable now. The people were the best in Govan!

[@ministryofanti-feminism1493]

No wonder, you vote for LGBT propaganda instead of maintaining the actually good, meaningful things about the city. Glasgow seems to be full of Communists, homos and foreigners, and Glaswegians bring it on themselves.

[@fenellainnis7216]

I know I went home to Glasgow after being away for a wee while and was shocked to see a lot of the old buildings demolished in the city centre . I once went for an interview at timpsons shoe shop on Argyle st and had a look upstairs on the top flat there was an old tiny Victorian like theatre, it was in ruins but impressive, think they demolished that too 😢

[@pharmerdavid1432]

AEWAR explains what they did, using modern building techniques to copy old styles, and making many buildings rapidly during that period...to cover-up the REAL old buildings perhaps?

[@jcgillies]

My paternal 3x great grandfather came to Glasgow from Argyle in the early 1800s - fabulous to learn about what he came to. On my maternal side, all my great grandparents came from Co Tyrone & Co Donegal to stay in roman catholic Irish enclaves. ❤ Glasgow! Thank you

[@indigohammer5732]

Let me express my deepest thanks, as a Glaswegian, for your video and your ability to pronounce the name of my great city.

[@lesleysmith8300]

I'm from Glasgow but haven't lived there since 1981. It's amazing to see old footage. My Gran was born in 1894. She would have been around 3 to 5 years depending on when the photos were taken.

[@keepitrandom5066]

Your no fae glesga then ya bam away ye go before a rattle ye les

[@lesleysmith8300]

​@@keepitrandom5066Can you say that in English please, Tongs yah bas. 🤣🤣🤣🫣

[@williamf4544]

A think a remembur yur Gran - She never took ur turn to dae the stair - Clarty Clara they used tae call hur

[@lesleysmith8300]

​@@williamf4544🤣🤣🤣 a way we yae... Yer aff yer heed...

[@ionabarker]

No waayyyy! Jarid im a huge fan and i live in glasgow! Thanks for pronouncing it correctly 😂and thanks for shining a light on my amazing city 💗 most of the buildings you see in the photos were all torn down in the 1960s and 70s to “cleanse” the city- it was known to contain the worst slums in Europe, but they didnt just take the slums. The city council destroyed pretty much everything, including a Tudor 1500’s village in the east of the centre, near the brewery and 1st site of the uni. And theyre still at it to this day. Historic buildings will mysteriously catch fire- usually in the places where there is student accommodation being built… Thanks so much for this. I’m going to go down under the city in the spring- you can actually get under the main station- they do tours. It’s always worth an explore to anyone who comes to visit!

[@Rajamak]

I live here too. The story about the 2 Rotunda buildings with the tunnel under the Clyde never rung true to me, very sus. 👍😁

[@tedklampett1737]

and the WEF is trying to tear down the life style we have and replace it with a feudal system again ..

[@pmac2597]

Aye me too u can get under the city in Duke St, on KZbin somewhere

[@drunvert]

Progressive means, tear everything down. Sad

[@gargoyle2585]

Awerite pal.......... ✋😁

[@johnwilson5359]

Thank's for this great video of Glasgow, I was born in Glasgow in 1964 and grew up in the old tenements with great memories, would not change it for anything, Glasgow people are unique down to earth people.👍♥️

[@scottdavis7217]

Jarid is one of my favorite old world researchers. Keep it up bro!

[@BolsteredBlades]

Very cool to see the city of my Granny's birthplace! She came to America as the 1st WWII bride off the trains in Tampa Florida! I wish I could find the newspaper article. She was featured on the front page of the Tampa Tribune. Thanks for sharing! ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@TheJonjay777]

You should visit Glasgow sometime you would love it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@BolsteredBlades]

@@TheJonjay777 I'd love to! I still have family there I hear from now & then too!

[@vickydonohoe1372]

Interesting was Alot of that going to America and my fam- tree fled towards Canada etc etc Some came from Ireland To Glasgow Catholic And Protestant which is a Big deal to us lot Sadly Very Green '&' blue... JstSayin WitweeSeekSeeksUs)0(

[@starofdavid9919]

Nothing like a Glaswegian Granny eh, bet nobody messed with her haha.

[@BolsteredBlades]

@@starofdavid9919 nope! LOL she used to love to get the heavy breather calls back in the day, she'd get them to hang up quicker that shite through a goose! 😂🤣 I am very much like her, not as mean unless necessary, & my mother would get so mad & say "you're just like my mother!" 😆😂🤣 Unfortunately she left this world too soon for me. I was 18 when she passed, I'm now 49.

[@kristen6113]

Jared, just want you to know what excellent and superb work you are doing. You are appreciated and what you share matters greatly! I'm so glad I found your channel, you are A++++! 😁😁😁❤❤❤

[@kathleenhughes3140]

Really beautifully researched video - I've lived in Glasgow all my life and learned loads! Thanks for sharing :)

[@davemcdave2169]

So much missed. The fact that Glaschu was a tiny salmon fishing village on the Clyde. Or High Street and its believed ancient origins. That in fact Glasgow is a collection of ancient villages, particularly Govan and Partick. Govan was Ovania to the Romans and was an ancient fording point. The antonine wall didn't split Pictish from Celtic tribes. You missed the Viking battle at Alt Clut shaping Govan as a power centre. You also failed to mention the context of Thomas Annan's work, to capture the abject poverty in a ruined city. You miss the highland clearances fuelling the population growth. Glasgow cathedral wasn't built on a roman site, it was on an ancient Iron age site. You didn't mention the dredging of the river which fundamentally made the city, or the Caribbean resource exploitation that provided the wealth.

[@richiec9077]

Mate you hit the nail on the head I was thinking much the same things there

[@abusedbyyou5482]

get a grip ya plonkers

[@spacedout2474]

You can only cover so much in a 20 minute video though

[@garycurrington5495]

This was a 20-odd minute video of Glasgow. Just how much information can you possibly get in on such a short period of time, this vodeo was to educate people on some history of Glasgow, as far as i am concerned this was a fantastic little trip down memory lane, big thanks to whoever it was decided to educate as many people as possible by putting this little video up on KZbin Massive big high five 👋 to them.

[@bobbibuttons8730]

I hear you. I was going to write pretty much the same thing. It would have bern good to mention the leper colony in the gorbals which was its own village. The growth of the west end. The education of Glasgow Uni. Lol I want a 3 hour long video.

[@rachel_v_k]

Thanks, Jarid! Glasgow is such a beautiful old city. Definitely older than they said. Much love! 🤗❤️❤️❤️🙏

[@caucasianbulldog6057]

Fantastic! These pictures show the Glasgow that my great-Grandmother was born into in 1891. The pictures being earlier even than that made me feel connected to my forebears going back to the 1840's. A warm feeling.

[@cleansweep999]

Thank you for your work and all the videos! 👍✌️

[@fefann]

This was great! Very well put together video. Glasgow girl here

[@ROUTEPLANNERPAUL]

Iam glasweigan born & breed one of the best videos I've across ...most of the buildings shown here are still standing in great condition 👏

[@Alexander..........]

Hi Im from Glasgow born & bred, thanks for sharing this info

[@TheCampsies]

Excellent presentation - well done Jarid.

[@christow7989]

One of the few times suggestions on my home feed is good. Thank you for what you do. Some of us are really interested in our history

[@bobjenkins9208]

Congrats on 50k subs Jarid, you really did earn it, your content is filled with wonderful images and you present them with such an open mind, most of all i really appreciate how humble you are, and i hope you never change commentators, God bless for the future brother.

[@markkelly4955]

Thank you for your work sir and as Iona said the first vid i have seen where it is spoken correctly! Much respect for your research brother! All my family moved to glasgow from Isle of harris and my great aunt (still alive at 86) remembers the gas lamps and the community spirit in the poor places.

[@gruaim]

You should look at Dundee, Scotland's oldest city. Lost of spicy stuff to be found there.

[@neilmccormick2064]

My great great grandfather Daniel McCormick migrated from Ballycastle Co Antrim to Glasgow in the late 1870s when he was a very young man. The Glasgow in the film is the one he would have made his new home. It must have been hard for Dan ,being a Catholic Irish immigrant was no picnic in those days .

[@dicem8977]

I was born in the 80's as a forth generation Irish Catholic. I'm no longer catholic but I'm proud of being Irish.

[@andrewheaney6858]

That’s one of the biggest perpetuated myths peddled in Scotland, there was actually no Irish immigration to Scotland Neil , at that time Ireland was probably the most reluctant member of the UK, the Irish quite simply move from one part of the UK to another they never Emigrated to another country! Immigration and immigrants are synonymous with something bad so it has always suited a bigoted narrative in some sections of Scotlands community to reinforce the immigrant ( outsider) card !

[@barrypritchard6992]

Fanny

[@barrypritchard6992]

Mc cormick doesn’t sound very scottish are you sure your not a potato famine irishman Who slaved on out waterworks then in true cathedral style decides to try and breed out the real population of the city Even today

[@andrewheaney6858]

@@barrypritchard6992 What an irony Barry, the McCormick’s are a sept of the Scottish Buchanan Clan, where as the Pritchards were an old Welsh family whom many settled in Ireland during the plantations, the records show they were very numerous in Ulster, but during the Irish famine many of them came to Scotland to seek refuge, I was a member of the Queensland Genealogy Society in Queensland Australia for many years and remain interested in it, what happened during the famine was the Irish in the south went to Liverpool, and the Irish in the North came mostly to the west of Scotland, I’m kind of guessing with Pritchard’s being so numerous in Ulster ( that’s were my family name originated from) it’s highly likely were that’s your folks came from Ireland during the famine and not directly from Wales, over 25% of the Irish that came to Scotland were Protestant and the majority of these bore Scottish Borders family names, if you were interested in family history you should join Scotlands People, but it’s very addictive I must warn you,but at the end of the day we’re all Jock Tamsons bairns and of course Proudly Scottish !

[@heatherbruce4496]

Great video I'm glaswegian these are some of the best photos and pictures I've seen

[@Jamestele1]

A lot of my family lived in glasgow stirling and edinburgh, after being "relocated" from Argyl, Dumfries, Inverness, and Sutherland. I felt very at home in Edinburgh, whilst on a vacation last October. I really enjoy your channel. Peace

[@TheJonjay777]

Well done I’m from Glasgow enjoyed this very much

[@dronechoons]

Hi Jarid, this was excellent, an american teaching glaswegians their history, brilliant! Cheers,

[@Saint_Dan132]

thankyou for painting my city with such wonderful, kind and true words

[@kateemma-]

At 8:00 there is clear evidence of mudflood and again at 14:08 with the cathedral, but at 8:00 it can be clearly seen with the outline of the building removed showing the old original part behind, with the doorway or window popping out of the ground. The steps at 8:54 show signs of exceptional wear and tear, worn down over generations of use and I used to live in a house dated from 1680 which had some old steps worn in the same manner, it takes a long time, so the mudflood that necessitated those stairs must have occurred a long time prior, far earlier than the flooding narrative. I have long believed that there was some kind of cataclysm around the 1400-1500, which almost ties in with the supposed plagues from the 1350s onwards. As to the stone masonry of the buildings, we're told that many of the buildings in Scotland are built of stone, especially granite, yet another YTuber, Rebel Without A Pause, has demonstrated that many of these "stone" buildings have, in fact, red brick skeletons with stone tiles placed over to give the appearance of stone buildings, which has also been shown by Jaxdreaming, when she visited Salisbury Cathedral she discovered they were renovating a part and underneath the stone facade a red brick layer could be seen. In my research on star formations (forts) I have discovered it would appear that much of this realm was constructed from red brick, then tiles were placed over the top, giving the appearance of granite, limestone or sandstone buildings.

[@lucabrasi8420]

He doesn't even show the cathedral at the 8.00 minute mark he only mentions in it his narration. Amazing the conclusions people jumped to with a lack lustre comprehension level.

[@ronaldbayne1431]

Great photos it was interesting to see the map showing the initial city starting at the Trongate with little else. Spending my childhood in the streets and parks of Kelvinbridge and Kelvingrove well to the west, which then was probably no mans land. So much to learn from visions of the past. Thanks Rmb

[@TrueKingsOfComedy]

Great to see all these photos of the city I was born and bred in and still here. The architecture nowadays is nowhere near as good as these photos the city is falling apart great video 👍

[@andrewheaney6858]

Absolutely brilliant pictures Jared, being from Glasgow they are even more meaningful to me, I actually thought how cool would it be if they were colourised ….. then thought most of them would pretty much still look black and white 😊

[@eh1702]

I remember what a revelation it was to us when they started sandblasting buildings in the city centre in the 1980s. Who knew the City Chambers was white?! We literally had no idea a lot of the buildings were red sandstone, let alone some being that honey-colour. As a child I honestly thought everythjng was built out of black stone.

[@andrewheaney6858]

@@eh1702 I served my time as an apprentice carpenter in Govan renovating the old tenements , we had the stone masons and sandblaster working for us, it was brilliant like you said ,if a stone block had perished, instead of replacing it, they would render it then paint white lines to match the existing joints, then put thin coach line tape the same thickness as the existing joints, then paint it the same colour as the sandstone but before the paint dried they would flick sand ( the same colour as existing) onto the wet paint , when they peeled off the coach line tape the white joint would just flow through and the sand would glisten making it look like real sandstone, unfortunately a lot of really beautifully architectural buildings got bulldozed though !

[@AlexanderWeurding]

Nice work! Thanks for sharing!

[@AlexanderWeurding]

Do you have a discord?

[@janicewiehe9936]

After enjoying this video, I just watched a new video on the. Mind Unveiled KZbin channel. It is about VERY early photography and photoshop. 🤯🤯🤯. It is very well done and extremely enlightening!

[@dollybrooks3112]

I have read in a couple books that the mud flood happened in the year 1755 and was the Lisbon earthquake, the first book was very religious and said the Lisbon earthquake was the rapture of Jesus and the other book was a Freemason book, that just mentioned the Lisbon earthquake but didn't say much about it!

[@victorian4454]

I found an old leather bound book in a skip at the back of a French monastery that was being 'renovated'. The book is titled 'Jesus Christ', and was written by a monk. In it he claims that Jesus was born in the year 747 and was crucified in the year 781. If you think about it, the year zero for Jesus birth can only have been invented many years later, so there must have been a date system running when he was born. My own personal view is that the dating system never was changed. The thousand year reign of Christ would have ended in the mid-late 1700's. This ties in with your Lisbon earthquake scenario. I have found other French records (many in government archives) which show that during the time of the French 'revolution' (which means 'to go around'), towns were systematically emptied out of all old books which were burnt. There were serious consequences for anyone that did not hand their books in. 'New' history books were then written, by scholars, without any reference to the past. I have come to the conclusion that the entirety of our history has been fabricated in the years following the completion of Jesus reign, where the wheat was protected from the tares. The tares (Devils children) now rule, as the Bible tells us.

[@dollybrooks3112]

@@victorian4454 this is so interesting, I've seen the videos that this could have been the rain of Christ and just put it to the back of my mind, lately I have been thinking that the tartars may have been the ones taking over the world. And the maps are showing us the land that they've taken over. America was the old world, I've watched a lot of people doing videos on that and that Egypt was found in America Arizona (Grand Canyon) I've read someone's web page where it said that America was Ethiopia. And that the king was prester John and the war between the tartars and prester John. In one article I read on prester John mentions baby Jesus but not a lot about him. I will have to do a lot more reading on this subject. We're not there yet but I think we're very close!

[@kemcloudking4919]

After the 1000 year reign Satan must be let loose for a season..a wonder how long a season is..?

[@dollybrooks3112]

@@kemcloudking4919 my guess is that would be 250 years if there are 4 seasons, and supposedly this has been the plan since 1776 so about four more years of this kind of shit, just a guess though!

[@charlotteb6898]

@@dollybrooks3112 the devil owns Tavistock and Hollywood but in the bible a day is a thousand years. Mary reappeared many years ago to call for peace.

[@joelhurley2678]

J a r i d, thank you for sharing this neat story about Glasgow. I have some family that move from from there to the state of Kansas. Thanks for everything and enjoyed the tour.

[@lesjohn534]

Fab video. Really enjoyed this. It popped up on my recommendations, for some reason. Subscribed. Love the narration!

[@walter77ify]

I was born and live in Glasgow and must say I am impressed at your research and the 'angle of approach' you took for this video.

[@ministryofanti-feminism1493]

Especially for an Ammurrican.

[@eh1702]

thank you for (a) pronouncing Glasgow properly and (b) pointing out that it is not a vast filthy slum filled with violent drunks. Much of that stereotype arose in the late 19th century when the population of some poorer parts of the city like Govan shot up by a multiple of TEN in a single decade. People were packed in like sardines without proper sanitation, in buildings that landlords, by now often hereditary, saw no reason to maintain. It was still so crowded that in the First World War, landlords had no hesitation in racking rents ever higher (where men building warships could pay) and evicting families where the man was off in the army, if his pay - or the widow’s pension - did not arrive in a timely way. This caused a fightback from the women of the city, who banded together, and de-trousered the bailiffs when they arrived to evict families. Eventually it got a change in the law.

[@tmsmith3412]

This was very informative, I thought I knew my stuff about Glasgow but you taught me some things I did not know. I personally think it was the most important and amazing city in the world, We literally invited and discovered everything in this city.

[@liammacgregor1546]

Loved this video. I like how you are one of the very few Americans that know how to actually say Glasgow, not by saying "Glass-cow" lol.

[@laurencesmith2199]

On the same latitude as Moss-cow . You seldom hear Weegies call it Glesga .

[@frankking781]

@@laurencesmith2199 how?.., l call it glazga .

[@laurencesmith2199]

@@frankking781 The Newton Mearns pronunciation , lol . Us Lumpen Paisleytariat say Glesga .......and Scoatlin .

[@frankking781]

@@laurencesmith2199 yes .( or Yaaaaaassss) .

[@Kmc-r7t]

​@@laurencesmith2199you'd here me say it all the time. Ex pat 20 plus years, it's Glesga👍😁.

[@vijaysuryaaditya9860]

I had always been told Glasgow of that era was nothing but squalid 'slums'. It looks quite imperious to me!

[@PaulDavis-qm7to]

Glasgow was the second city of Empire, remember. It has always had, alongside the slums and squalor, a thrusting middle class.

[@rockwhisperer7449]

Super video thanks Jared, I’ve visited Edinburgh and thought it was like Hogwarts, the architecture is phenomenal I was left wondering how it was built given that we are led to believe the Scots lived in stone huts on the moorlands and only the Lairds lived in castles. A lot of the buildings look like they were built by the same castle builders, it’s not making sense in my head. My ancestry is Scottish and your pictures have left me with more questions than answers as to my own Scottish heritage history lol.

[@gavinmcinally8442]

The cotton and sugar trade he mentioned, that was our involvement in the slave trade and a lot of the big fancy structures were built from the proceeds.

[@sweaty7012]

Probably because most Scots didn't live in stone huts on the moorlands. You're thinking of some romantic Highland fantasy. Scots were industrialised city dwellers before most people,. As we more or less started the Industrial Revolution. Then Empire,Tobacco, Slaves, Textiles added to the wealth and led to industrialisation and town life. Nothing unusual.

[@eh1702]

Well, Edinburgh is like Hogwarts because Edinburgh is one of the inspirations for Hogwarts.

[@pingupenguin2474]

Glasgow was a big industrial city. Plenty stone and slate in parts of Scotland. Plenty of ordinary houses all over Scotland were built from stone.

[@gavinmcinally8442]

@@pingupenguin2474 in Glasgow all the blonde stone was pre 1900 and the red was after 1900

[@timothydillow3160]

" History is everything, if we don't know it we know nothing. " td

[@owenywanperoni7939]

Just discovered your channel gona check out more 100% I am Glaswegian and that was fascinating! Just to learn we had the plague 5 times 🤣 but your video did give me sense of pride! I recognise lots of those pictures! I’ve always thought of my self as Glasgow personified, consider myself “ah bit of a patter merchant!“ 🤣 will share this that was good content I look forward to looking at some more 👍🏼🍀

[@talesfromthescrypt]

One of my fave jokes. Glasgow dentist attending to patient: Comfy? Patient: Govan!

[@martinanderson4721]

My Grandmother travelled from Glasgow to San Diego pre WW1 where she worked for the Peabody Trust. Some journey that - on her own. She died when i was about 10/11. We were in England at the time and would visit her and my Grandfather ( born 1872) whom she married on returning from San Diego. He ran a building business in Bardowie Street. He was a contractor at Rosyth naval dockyard and exempt.War service. The narrator referrred to the post war crowds which seemed to show fewer men in the video. I had 7 or 8 Great Aunts who were Spinsters all their lives.

[@martinanderson4721]

The bustling picture of the shipping - probably the Broomielaw - where David Livingstone left for Africa - and where he bade farewell to his Father.

[@marzpop754]

I really enjoyed this fully narrated presentation! One of the first things that stands out when looking at these photos is the ratio/size of buildings to the people present doesn't fit, most windows look empty, and some buildings look far older than when photos were taken. These photos are wonderful, have you come across doctored photos/photoshop in your research? Thanks!

[@eh1702]

There were still a few of these slightly lumpy-looking one, two and three storey buildings left here and there until the late 20th century - a whole row at Water Row in Govan till the 50s or 60s, and one building across the river in Partick till just a few years ago. I think a lot of these were 17th & 18th century and in the city centre were replaced by the Victorian sandstone ones.

[@eh1702]

Also, around the fishmarket, Trongate and Barras area when I was a child there were still dozens of those smaller, older buildings. They must have been demolished in the 70s & 80s. Sometimes in the late 70s, early 80s, the south side looked like a giant demolition site.

[@emilybaird1818]

Thank you for pronouncing Glasgow properly 💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@jademacleod9115]

You pronounce Glasgow perfectly x

[@keiththompson2172]

Well pronounced Jarid 👍

[@snoo333]

nice video. I noticed a guy or kid hanging out on those side street photos. almost as if they were the guards of that street. People had to speak to them before interacting with people from that street. Or i could be overthinking . :)

[@larrycyprus3052]

12:58 shows a radio tower or is it free energy? Gone in 14:38 image of the same building. All the photos appear to be touched up, see Mind Unveiled recent video on photography 😉👍 All steet photos seem to have just been cleaned, and I felt I was looking at Pompey, a ghost town that had been covered in mud. 🤔

[@michaelbrown9891]

Excellent video. I live in Scotland and love the architecture in Glasgow city centre. Some of it is awe-inspiring inspiringly beautiful. I have my doubts that these were actually built in the 1800s. 😍

[@eh1702]

“ I have my doubts that these were actually built in the 1800s. “ 🤔 I can’t figure out what that means!

[@uselesseater1584]

@@eh1702 I think he refers to the theory of Tartaria and the mud flood. There’s a reference here to the city being dug out. This theory attempts to explain the amazing similarity in architecture around the world and that it was all built much earlier than we’re told.

[@eh1702]

@@uselesseater1584 Good god, what utter Rubbish. This is a medieval-peasant, at least pre-Enlightenment, concept of archaeology. 1. Glasgow has been drawn and painted for centuries, and you can see areas that were countryside begun to be built up into what is now city-centre. It’s also reflected in many placenames. 2. The Clyde is strongly tidal right into the present city centre. It has been dredged for the last couple of centuries making it much narrower in some places, and deeper. That also leaves relatively flat areas that have things underfoot like old sunken boats covered in a few layers of silt. That almost immediately got built on without thought as to how the narrowing increased the power of the current. And it left no room for the kind of weather events that even then came along routinely every decade or two. As well, what used to be small sandbars and islands were ruthlessly obliterated for shipping access, and archaeology was sometimes found in that process. A couple of generations of all-out industrial dredging without thought to what happens when a spring tide combines with a strong westerly and a ton of rain coming down from the Lanarkshire hills - THAT was the “mud flood”. Ecological thoughtlessness. I have seen “crowds” of standing waves taller than a person processing slowly upriver at the city centre, as an incoming tide meets a big dump of rain from the hills. In response a few years ago, a whole program of flood mitigation to slow the spate from the Lanarkshire hills was put in place in a couple of feeder rivers. There is normal archaeology around the Clyde: it was a trade route since the megalithic, between very fertile “breadbasket” areas of lowland Scotland and the “highway” of the Atlantic coasts of all Britain and Ireland. It also considerably shortened the journey from coast to coast. Downstream is the “rock/fortification of the Britons” Dumbarton Rock, a natural gatehouse of the Clyde, still impressive despite being quarried away, and up and down the river, finds of small neolithic canoes dug and dredged out of the mud at various points. You have at Govan old parish church (right at the confluence of the Clyde and Kelvin) the Viking “hogback” gravestones and pagan or secular and quasi-Christian ones that would undoubtedly be called Pictish if they were further east. (Including a “sun stone” composed of four snakes in a whirl) And a unique-in-Scotland big stone casket thought to have been for the Brittonic king Constantine, possibly part of a failed project to make a saint of him. Right next door was a neolithic mound used as a “moot hill” in medieval times that the Victorians first turned into a chemical dump and then flattened. It then became a car park and is now being built over by a block of flats. This was the “sacred” side of the river. Opposite on the north, Partick side was said to have been the secular centre of princely power. It was the elevation of Mungo to a saint that was instrumental in moving the centre of power and trade a mile or so upriver to where the Cathedral and Provans Lordship are, and the original area of Glasgow University. Yes, there is history, yes, some of it has literally come out of the mud. But the idea of some antediluvian city is ridiculous. For one thing, Scotland couldn’t support the population for settlements of more than a couple of thousand people - right up to medieval times.

[@pauls3204]

Mince utter mince ! Multiple cities throughout the world are based on the Glasgow grid system of building the city centre area Hence so many movies are based there pretending to be in the USA or elsewhere

[@lynnbb]

💙thanks Jarid🌷🐾🐾

[@jimbob297]

my home town, thanks for this .

[@thomassmart2790]

my city! What a place

[@scottbonner4908]

An American pronouncing Glasgow the correct way, yeehaaaa🎉 great video mate

[@martinkerr2721]

hi Jarid i am Born and bread in Glasga , Glasgow , do you know what a close is ? its an entrance to a building with 6 to 8 flats with room n kitchen , now a days the closes or mostly gone but not all my fathers house ,my mother has now pasted stay in a close , the Black death nearly destroyed our city as you have said there are building still there from 14,000's TBH glad you said Glasgow correctly cheers pal 👍 's highland clearances ,their destination was USA Also the invention that have came from Scottish ppl is immense also it's a great city to live in ps was also a Scot how founded the Bank of England ,it was good to hear you take an interest in my City thanks again mate ps oldest house in Glasgow Built in 1471, Provand's Lordship remember getting taken to see it in primary 6

[@Rippington41]

Not one building under construction in any of these old images

[@jamesward4191]

Well done and thank you , ,as for the critics, you cant possibly cram in every single fact in 20 minutes, those who pointed out the omissions and oversights,why not make your own versionsincluding your knowledge, l, for one, would be glad to watch it

[@AzulinhoAzulinho]

I enjoyed this, and learned some things.

[@laurencesmith2199]

Being a major port meant many merchants were based there . That wealth begat the competitive architecture . Great post son .

[@wtffy204]

The thing I carnt rap my head round is how these pics from a 100yrs ago. 20 yrs ago phones were only 5 megapixels. I was buying toys for my kids the cameras were shit 3 mega pixels. Theses from 100yrs ago are high definition. Wats gone on ere. ( puts the spliff down)

[@togowack]

Yes HD wide angle photos from prior to 1850 are what set off alarm bells for me, depicting pictures of Chicago and other cities devoid of people, post reset and prepared for replenishment. The controllers learn each time and are trying to perfect their formula.

[@wtffy204]

@@togowack life's just like the monopoly game. U buy houses, electricity companies, train stations and hotels. All to pack back up and put in the box. The only thing that changes is the names of the people sat at the table playing monopoly. Houses and businesses are constantly be put up for sale. Franchises like kfc. There 386 ish kfcs In Britain. There's 80 people who own all of them and they have at least 3 each and make easy a million each year prophet. They've all worked out the formula to live good lives. Funny thing is there all foreign people who run the kfc food chains in Britain.

[@flatplaneoregon4605]

Even some of what they call drawings, many of the depictions, and almost all of those images referred to as lithographs are spectacularly hi-tech and in my opinion amazingly precise for any superstitious primitives of the past theorytales. We have been regressed oppressed suppressed and obfuscated to an early death

[@wtffy204]

@@flatplaneoregon4605 I agree. I feel like if we're the crem de le crem of humanity after all the humans gone before us living, where supposed to the strongest most intelligent out of all the hundreds of years progression. Cuss I feel inferior to the information that I have researched the people of the past where more intelligent than us.. Well at least me anyway. I marvel in the site of the old days people mixing together, all dressed same. Buildings are fucking huge. Windows are frigging huge . It's so much better but it's supposed to be otherway round.

[@Primal_Primat3]

This shit really blows my mind and puts a whole new spin on alot of the old stories my grandfather told me. One that really makes me wonder is about the underground shooting range/training grounds in the city centre somewhere. He was in the army and mentioned something along those lines or that nd so much more that has me wondering now.

[@colacokehead69]

"Jamaica" Bridge... if you know you know. Read Moor books. Ancient and Modern Britons Vol 1-2 tells who these people were and are. Love everything you do Boosters.

[@johnmcdonald9295]

The first racist murd conviction was in 1905 pashal Liffey a poc graped and murd 63 year old ,mary welsh a white female,pashal got hung in duke street

[@espedairphotography]

Glaz-Go - well done on the pronunciation of Glasgow.

[@phoenixrising5088]

Glas Go

[@espedairphotography]

@@phoenixrising5088 lol we say Glaz-go or Glesga (Glez-ga)

[@debwirtz]

Great video Jarid. These amazing buildings were definitely not built by the people in those horse and buggies. Something is not adding up here. What is being covered up and why?

[@geneharris4953]

Why is that? Masonry construction, particularly when it is of a dimensional nature requires the most basic of tools. many of the pieces of this type of construction were cast and manufactured offsite. The real genius in these buildings was done at the design and architectural level. My ancestors built some absolutely mind blowing structures in Georgia in the 1800's, including what's considered the Jewel of The South. The Hay House.

[@debwirtz]

@@geneharris4953 So Gene, if what you are saying is true, then why can the beautiful old world buildings not be replicated even today?

[@geneharris4953]

@@debwirtz That's not true at all. Of course they can be replicated. The problem is that it makes no sense financially to do so for a municipality or a builder or whomever. There have been replications in some areas of the world, but usually when there is a public/private partnership. I have heard people repeat this line about not being able to repeat this and it seems very wrong to me. Now don't get me wrong, we are talking about buildings here, not the pyramids or other structures of the past. That kind of building remains a mystery to me although many believe they were formed in place with some kind of aggregate process.

[@debwirtz]

@@geneharris4953 Sorry Gene, if you take a look at the construction of the old world cathedrals all over the world, and their amazing architecture, something is being hidden from our past. The technology necessary still can not be replicated even today.

[@geneharris4953]

@@debwirtz Sure, I don't deny that part of what you are saying. Who are the Freemasons and what's their objective? What I am saying isthat it can be done. You have to think about replacement costs when you look at a building. To build in that sort of old school way were you had hundreds of people making very small wages who had one skill that their entire lives were centred around developing that skill is reflective of different time. I am a building inspector and I can clearly see in my profession the quality of buildings and materials has gone the way it has due mostly in part to monetary reasons. Even where I live in the tropics, the houses built 20 years ago out of our concrete and hardwoods are far superior to the structures made of steel and concrete board that everyone builds with now. The rise in price of CBS construction with hard woods has risen to the point that people don't build that way. This is regression through usery. It's that simple.

[@martinward10]

Thank you for pronouncing it correctly!

[@ColchesterBridgeport]

Good listen mate. Well done.

[@eh1702]

The reason for the 500 missing years is because Edward I of England made several invasions, and one of them was specifically to tour Scotland and annihilate its records - government, borough, church and baronial records. What they could not read (in Gaelic) they burned on the spot. Anything historical was a particular target for burning: Scotland was to have no history separate from Norman England’s. They then burned what did not obviously relate to landholding and taxable wealth or military intelligence. The rest they carried away. In the 1600s a shipload of it was taken from the Tower of London and out on board ship to be “returned”. But oh, dear, it sank purely by accident of course. And so, many generations of Scots have been told they were primitive, uncivilised people with no history.

[@frequencyoblivionradio3244]

IM FROM THE AREA AND BEEN A BIG FAN OF YOUR STUFF FOR A WHILE NOW BROTHER KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK MY MAN⚡⚡🍄🤠💣👍

[@kitkat6650]

i live 22 miles from Glasgow in a town called Port Glasgow, i didn't know any of this we didn't learn any of this in school.

[@alllivesmatter8581]

Great videos the first thing that stands out is the Moorish architecture that's common in all the great cities of the world....

[@millerctongs]

What has happened to these beautiful buildings in Glasgow has been criminal, they have been replaced by soulless corporate modern architecture.

[@uselesseater1584]

I agree. The book Lost Glasgow by Carol Foreman shows a lot of what was destroyed.

[@hunterraylewis547]

Tah for covering my birth city, forgot about the gas deposits, but may I recommend a video, its a random walk in video of what is bellow central station, before the station was built, the terminus was on the southside of the clyde at Bridge St. There was a tightly built residential area, they just built on top of it to create the station, old masonry, tight staircases. Will add a link to some videos that cover the history of the area. Only new info I got in this wonderfully presented for an American (i assume) is the origin of the glasgow fare, which is not continued to this day, only few from the younger generations have the passed on knowledge (was told when I had a paper round by one elderly customer whe I was a teen. The map you had of Whiteinch as an island, and a river that goes north to south, east from the town, I want to find out more about that. Thanks also for being the first American to pronounce glasgow as glas-go, everyone else says glass-gow like cow. Thanks.. or tah... or cheers bud

[@pagerhoads1531]

I know what would be scary to have lived in one of those old work houses or the single mothers work houses they used that were the same type of buildings as orphanages

[@pspence9569]

Close- es / close-ies, The flats / apartments, have close-es, because, as you said, they're so close. It's not a shutting down time. :)

[@pauloolivierhm]

Hi Jared please check out and if possible do a video about Rio de Janeiro city in Brazil... the official history doesn’t fit well with what we see... Rio even had a kind of world fair, also it has an ancient Roman bath house (parque Lage) similar or more ornamented than the one in Bath in England and many other buildings including a supposed demolished building from USA world fair and rebuilt in Rio that became the house of the Brazilian senate and later was demolished and turned into a park lot.

[@grumpynanny7402]

My grandparent were living as children I 1880’s and 1890’s

[@sapien82]

some really impressive structures in Glasgow , shame that the court knowe in the southside didnt survive and the remains of the linn park castle. But damn thats alot of plague jings. Love the history of the city , I love how Scotland was such a small place that influenced the world in such a way .

[@MrTjversion7]

Really enjoyable video

[@90210dk1]

Love it ❤️

[@constructionmanagement5661]

Just looking at these photos, it shows me that there were huge mill/brick/row homes going back beyond the 1600’s. When looking at the United States we see these in all the major cities in massive square footage. It just seems as if the United States was built up prior to the timeline we are told. Cities like Boston and New Amsterdam/New York would have some excuse, but the mid west and west coast where we see the same buildings would not. I do believe that major construction and renovations were made during the 1800’s however I don’t believe that everything was built during that time. As you quoted “the fortifications of ancient Roman times melted into brick buildings” whatever Roman means there are more Roman structures outside of the Roman Empire than within.

[@naradaian]

The City was prosperous throughout the whole Empire due to the transatlantic trade…including slavery thus sugar and tobacco and the abundant coal/coke/iron ore nearby meant shipbuilding and engineering was a huge deal - the architecture was high empire mercantilist and yes much is still there

[@jamesclark6104]

Much has been said about the Glaswegian slums, the tenements in those pictures look no different to tenements in other places at the same period of time. In fact they look cleaner and safer than a lot of places today.

[@martinanderson4721]

The sandstone of the bulidings the tenements comes from Dumfies shire.

[@ruanaich]

Hat are Roman Catholic building techniques? Was this scripted using AI ?

[@dicem8977]

Overall this video was fantastic and very informative but I can't fathom why he choose to mispronounce St. Mungo as St. Moongo. There is no 'oo' in Mungo but there is definitely a 'u'. Maybe his native language is Spanish, hence the 'oo' for 'u'. Having said this I don't want to come across as overly critical because he's done his homework and I commend him for his effort.

[@randymarsh27]

My old friend used to go into the underground for hours with a torch searching for stuff Says the entire city is full of tunnels

[@kingkush4476]

U can still see parts of antonine wall.1150 we stil have glesga fair wow

[@Gambit771]

So refreshing to hear a yank pronounce 'glasgow' correctly.

[@jockmcscottish7569]

Glasgow now resembles Stalingrad after the Germans had finished with it. Apart , mabe, from the city center.

[@dn744]

Nice 👍 work

[@connoradams2370]

Funny looking photographs (drawings)

[@rabmcnamara5777]

It's true that the people made glasgow. Those who came here to make it home. This city was built on their backs. It was and still is a city of extremes. On one hand the wealthy and creative on the other the destitute and insane (excuse the term) many hospitals or schools for the impoverished standing beside the grandiose cathedrals and churches. We crammed in as much as possible until it spilled over to other areas. Even in later years when the brought down the tenements and regeneration took place it was done in Glasgow style....

[@stephenmcfarlane4247]

You didn't mention the most of the building wouldn't be there if not for the commonwealth the empire

[@porkydeboer2635]

Perhaps, but that would also apply to England and Wales too.

[@roddy2body]

"Argyle arcade" surely not!! It's still there.. the short cut from Argyle st to Buchanan st (vice versa) which is just full of (expensive) jeweler's all the way around...