Glasgow 1970s

Photos Glasgow 1970s

[@scotlanddaytrips6397]

I loved Henry Healy's gammon and tomato rolls!

[@iainstirling1475]

Glasgow in the 70s loved it. 55 Barmulloch bus to college 1977 -79 loved it.

[@Madjock1965]

Some great photos brought back a lot of memories thanks

[@margaretscott4620]

How can you say Glasgow has improved, it’s a mess far too much demolition, tenement buildings demolished to build high flats, then crime really started, and then those high flats were demolished due to mould..would have been far better to refurbish the tenement buildings the Red Sandstone buildings with wall tiles as you entered were lovely.. Pure destruction of History, which can never be replaced, like the absolute gorgeous Hotel at Saint Enoch Square, no reason to demolish if architects knew their jobs today there would be less destruction, with History on the outside still living on. Margaret

[@greenockelton]

Great to see the old images of Glasgow thank you

[@alanknotts1844]

The Govanhill Bar was always a favourite pit stop for me staggering back from the toon lol

[@dannybhoy6767]

Mein Host Gallagher ahin the bar😁

[@treasurehuntingscotlandmud9340]

some great old photos

[@Cool2BCeltic]

You can see how many parts of the city have improved since then but it's a shame so many fine Victorian buildings were indiscriminately knocked down in the 1970s.

[@Revolver1981]

I would've had them seriously done in for demolishing them.

[@triodehexode]

Improved ??. have you seen to the Stalinist student housing blocks off the High St. Well done the council for approving these cheap nasty highly profitable private builds. At least with that eye sore film companies can use thema sets for cold war films.

[@healingandgrowth-infp4677]

Makes me see how old 70s is doesn't feel like that but it is true. I was thinking how this was before any of my siblings were born even my oldest were born 71. Also even the man I love who is in his 50s now was only 4 years old then too young to grasp the world yet. And then seeing the photos of empty streets and a young man crossing the road made me think of how everyone in their 20s back then would be 70 years old now. It feels almost like looking at photos from 1800s or early 1900s but it does not feel that long ago at all... and not much has changed either... then I realised my dad and mum would have just met then working at a hospital... and my dad would have been in his 30s then and my mother in her 20s. Crazy they were the young mans age then... my mother must be 70 odds now I haven't spoken to her in years due to abuse. I still feel she should be in her 50s still.

[@RHR-221b]

As a Springburn boy, now man, I have knowledge of child abuse. I wish you and yours Love, h. Stay free. Rab 💖

[@READYTEDDYBEAR]

Hutchie E building at 4:20. Such a notorious construction but very few photographs of it on Internet.

[@charlesrennie3777]

Thanks pal

[@raycroal]

would love to see an index of these photos as i don't recognise a lot of the places

[@gerardrooney4366]

Can't wait to visit Glasgow again in 2015 after so many years away.

[@MrGoldenV]

How did it go and how long were u away?

[@weallmakechoices7456]

@gerald Don't hold your breath - it's a total dump now.

[@gracesmith6199]

Pity it didn't tell us where we were !!

[@jimpayne404]

The football match at around 2.30 is, I think, a game between Scotland and N. Ireland played in 1969. A 1-1 draw, the crowd was less than 8000 and was, at the time, the smallest for a Home International match. The people under the big brolly were the only people in the vast Celtic end of the stadium- which at the time was capable of housing 5000 people. I think they left at half time and it was the first international I ever attended.

[@jimpayne404]

Celtic end held 50000 not 5000 people

[@engelberthumperdinck7366]

Great Glasgow pics.... READ THE REAL GORBALS STORY NEXT BRILLIANT BOOK 👍

[@alexneill3874]

Dose anyone remember Sandy Rd in Patrick back in 60s ?

[@miloboys3394]

I’ve got to say that any architect working in the town planning debt then should hang their head in shame

[@RHR-221b]

Probably has a Winner's Award, slightly tarnished, resplendent upon his/her manky mantelpiece. Stay free, m. 🍻😎

[@wellbeing7607]

There's a different feel about Glasgow at the present.. a lot of people have left it for faraway places..it's like a political tsunami has hit it..🎶will ye no come back again🎶?..

[@williamf4544]

Edinburgh is worse - everyone has left it

[@shantydoctor]

Beautiful Rugged Dirty Industrial Trippy Hardcore City

[@fyodor48alyosha67]

I’ve worked on that bus!!!

[@robertkincaid]

it could only be one city in the world

[@jamesmcdermott2444]

People from Glesga will tell you that if they were reincarnated the wouldn’t want brought up anywhere else. We had no money,no rat race,but we had a Community Spirit unbeaten worldwide. Just look at the Stars who came fae Glesga. That’s why we wrote the song Ah Belang tae Glesga. We are proud of our Heritage and we all know it was a childhood tae die fir. We even stopped people shovin their Grannie aff the Bus. Awae fir peace an sugar. Got it right up ye.

[@muhammadsaleemkhanlodhiadv9814]

Beautiful

[@dannybhoy6767]

@@jamesmcdermott2444 Great comment 😁

[@kadett75]

Whats the title of the second piece of music? Thanks for the upload, brings back good memories of Glasgow for me!

[@Callumiain1]

Hi - it's song called Tuireadh Iain Ruadh by Runrig. While I like this band, I chose this track because it was the backing bed which STV used before 24 hour broadcast when a list of the following days programmes would be shown before closedown. I've appreciated the feedback and I think that earlier commentary suggesting that music which came later than the pics shouldn't be used is probably correct so if I do any more I'll bear that in mind.

[@kadett75]

Callum Macleod OK thanks, I thought it seemed familiar, I must have heard it on STV back in the day. Cheers

[@allthingsscotland]

There's no music on it now Callum

[@davidmckirdy4063]

What street was the police box in ?

[@alanknotts1844]

That looks like Tradeston near the old Coop building under the Kingston Bridge

[@TheFrankeebhoy]

The music is mince had to turn it off pictures OK

[@Callumiain1]

I think you're right about the music and will bear it in mind if I do any more.

[@giotto4321]

@@Callumiain1 Viewing in 2021, it didn't seem to have any soundtrack at all.

[@malcalena]

looks more like the 50's or 60's never the 70's

[@greenockelton]

70s just look at the cars

[@malcalena]

I take your word for it Billy and bow to your superior knowledge it just looks like a bit before the 70s bud

[@danbreen6946]

@@malcalena 70's Busses Malky 👍

[@weallmakechoices7456]

Those high rises lurking behind the old buildings - like aliens invading from another planet. Town planners = fail. I loathe what they did to that great city.

[@robertdoyle687]

No more GLASGOW BANTER alas 🤬

[@daviddack1595]

Am going home because of Brexit ...Revoke Article 50..

[@josephberrie9550]

how sad

[@callummacleod7468]

Great memories - but best viewed in the small screen mode to avoid blurring spoiling the excellent show!