Glasgow 30 Years Ago

A look at city life in the early to mid 1990s.

[@Kasim-990]

Glasgow was so much fun city to live in especially from 1990-1999. I have so much fond memories and everything was so much simple and people was so different as well back than.

[@Glaschu1]

It also had downsides. I was only three when this film was made, but the young team culture was bad in the 00s when I was a teenager. Had to be careful where you walked or you’d be a target for wee bams for being in the wrong street, just because their young team fought with the one in your area. I imagine it would’ve been worse in the 90s and earlier. Oh and all the zombie areas of boarded up tenements, packs of junkies roaming the streets. That still exists but nowhere near as bad

[@Kasim-990]

@@Glaschu1 I remember all this as well when I was growning up your right, I use to live in Darnley back than and me and my mates got chased by these neds back than many times.

[@Bigmeeks2]

😅Aye totally knife captial

[@Azureecosse]

@@Bigmeeks2 Now London holds that top accolade.

[@Delboy219]

I miss the 90s as well. But also...I remember not being able to go into certain areas because of psychos. I remember getting punched by a random ned while crossing the road at Argyle Street. I also remember the polis were just as bad as the neds sometimes. City was a shit-show. We only look back fondly because we miss our youth.

[@kemikalreakt]

Get those subtitles to fuck mate

[@adamsmithintin2803]

and the Edinburgh voiceover n all

[@sky37blue]

@@adamsmithintin2803 hahaha I was just thinking that. I've never heard that accent in Castlemilk. This feels like Unionist propagaganda with that voice telling us how wonderful everything is.

[@MartinJordan]

​Denise Cobride wants a word

[@indigo8021]

@@sky37bluewhat a damaged, pathetically inferior mindset you have.

[@adamsmithintin2803]

@@JoCos2145 that's clearly an Edinburgh accent

[@SpiritEngine]

Nothing about the physical elements feels old. These are all things we can still see today; proving that innovation really is 30, 40 years ahead of its time, that every era is at the cutting edge. Which is why it's so interesting to see what I believe are 21st century houses with 1980s cars parked on the street!

[@theboraxbandit9563]

innovation XD

[@Black103RIP]

And now many of these high flats are gone… Same thing with Edinburgh. The Calder flats in Wester Hailes are still standing surprisingly.

[@RicardoPetrazzi]

Make Glasgow Great Again! My city is a shadow of its former glory now. 😢

[@Sophie-wq5ct]

Was listing and painting my nails then looked up and saw my flat I just bought 😂

[@wimpymate]

Fabulous by Christ

[@wimpymate]

Fabulous by Christ

[@Geeyerheidawobble]

10:24 Haliburton road looking up to the bridge to take you over to Kildermorie road ( Skinheads over to Bal for the locals) in Easterhouse. Great days they were back then ❤️

[@Phil-Sands]

The subtitles are a nuisance and the AI used is rubbish at trying to name places properly, please have the option of turning them on/off instead of burnt into the video.

[@Hrossey]

Yer maw

[@scotttait2197]

Yer da ​@@Hrossey

[@curls9032]

Make yer ain video then ya walloper 😂

[@KismetMulhaneski-to3wg]

Seems to be the aesthetic now unfortunately -what concerns me more is the voice of the soundtrack is probably dead (it's the same voice that used to do Schools programs on TV and BFI stuff) and his voice is being used via AI without permission?

[@Spectrophia]

@@KismetMulhaneski-to3wg You wearing a tinfoil hat? The only thing added was the subtitles.

[@SMC247]

Is there an original version of this film without the subtitles? Would be good to have a go at improving the footage as much as possible.

[@zeno2712]

0:30 STRATHTIGHT REGIONAL COUNCIL?

[@balljacksok]

3:21 STRATH GUIDE 😂

[@Dylenni2]

BRO CANNOT SAY STRATHCLYDE 😂

[@andyarchitect]

Nice nostalgic video but the subtitles are so distracting that I stopped halfway through.

[@michaelfarrell4824]

The Square at the top of Castlemilk Drive @ 1:36

[@JamesFlanagan-y5x]

Used to live in the square in the 70s

[@michaelfarrell4824]

@@JamesFlanagan-y5x I was there 85-91

[@rumeunner3245]

Whst a contrast compared to now..

[@JohnSandford-ev5pu]

When Glasgow was Glasgow.. playing out all nyt in the summer .. with no phine or internet

[@jamesmcfadden7365]

So true😢

[@naiboz]

94’ is when I first got the freedom to go up the toon myself, buy cd’s and be wee dicks 😂 All changed for the worse.

[@dogblessamerica]

Glasgow in the 90s was beset by knife crime, with the highest murder rate in Europe. Scotland's "violence reduction unit" has had some success, halving the number of homicides between 2004 and 2019.

[@rumeunner3245]

And now with the arrivals of certain demographics, it's back again

[@stephenkelly7413]

Looks better than now

[@malcolmjcullen]

Don't be daft.

[@indigo8021]

@@malcolmjcullendaft how? This place is a third world shit hole now mate, what’s yer guide dug’s name?

[@chrismcnulty7826]

Glasgow definitely did not look better in the 90s.

[@100geemo78]

Aye, right !!

[@drainagecontractor]

No it doesn't ya melt

if only we had 3d representation of the city throughout the decades

[@Charlizzie]

0:35 Now 85 councillors 9:26 Cumbernauld and East Kilbride

[@joebannanaz]

Alot of homes still have bad condensation and dampness problems to this day in 2024. Now the radiators are coming back off and ther putting in heat pumps and external insulation and extraction fans, along with thermal wallpaper hah..seems like weve done a 40 year full circle. Another big money maker government scheme. Feel sorry for some of the kids growing up in a flat in 2024 with mold.

[@alanbrown6628]

Smiles better

[@randommadness1021]

Mind those big signs on the gas works?

[@Azureecosse]

Glasgow garden festival in 1988 was brilliant really transformed and area that was a wasteland frequented by Jakeys and kiddy fiddlers.

[@sunnyjoe]

Over 1 mill residents with the amount of boats that came in 😂😂😂😂

[@scotttait2197]

The energy deregulation is to blame for the shocking prices we in scotland pay in 2024 and set ti rise again , we pay more fir transition charges than rest of uk despite producing mer renewables than anywhere else

[@100geemo78]

That’s what happens when your country is nothing more than England’s last colony !!

[@YeCannyDaeThat]

Amazing how much 14 years of the SNP has ruined Glasgow.

[@nervousheadache]

SNP have only controlled Glasgow since 2017.

[@rossmatheson4303]

​@nervousheadache which isn't the point he was making. It's got particularly worse in the last 6 or 7 years under Aitkens control though.

[@Celticsamuraiblue]

Somebody misspelled the Tory …’Con’ - The People & ‘Serve’- Themselves party….🤑🤫🤐💸 Sevco fans struggle after 2 syllables right enough….🤬🥵 👎🏻🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿☮️🇪🇺😎

[@YeCannyDaeThat]

@@Celticsamuraiblue Yeah Torys arent much better. But imagine defending (and deflecting) a bunch of career politicians who have destroyed your city. #cult.

[@rossmatheson4303]

@@Celticsamuraiblue Enjoy waking up British for the rest of your life. You benefit so much from it.

[@DJ_Dance_Classics_Glasgow]

FAST FORWARD 30 YEARS STILL HOUSING PROBLEMS

[@markcf83]

All thanks to the lardy arsed Two Seats Aitken and her illiterate cronies......

[@craiganderson2673]

Its a toilet now

[@patsyballantyne9886]

@4:00 mins looks like Ruchill :)

[@jdh6752]

Lol, I remember having to walk up to Ruchill Hospital around the time this was filmed and being terrified.

[@LeggieGlasgow]

My city is a disgrace the tenants who've lived in high rises for 40 years still wait for a decent house as they go to the bottom of the list to let those who've never paid any contributions go top of the list.Why are Scots hated so much by their own government but to be honest it's a UK wide problem that is causing anger in the citys.So many nice houses just built in the Gorbals and Dennistoun and many other areas but very little chance the citizens who've been living in Glasgow for generations will get one.The city centre is made up of McDonald's,Subway,Burger king then charity shops followed by pound shops and pawns shops and so on.Sauchiehall St resembles a battlefield, closed and the roads dug up.Why pay taxes when we get nothing you'll only see Scots homeless and beggars on the streets nobody else apart from the conmen and women playing kid on violins and accordians who claim to be homeless but all have houses and get benefits. Handing out stolen flowers probably from a graveyard then demanding two quit for it.Drug deaths at record levels every year for decades wiping out generations to be replaced it really is a desperate situation. I feel so sorry for people with young kids or grandkids they will be second class citizens in 20 years,Torys who caused all this ,SNP and Labour they don't care as long as they get their salary's they don't give a damn the lies being told to obtain power then went back on all the promises.

[@cg9856]

Why do you have the right to a house? Does living in a council high rise for a long period of time make you entitled to a decent house? A wee bit confused

[@LeggieGlasgow]

@@cg9856 Does somebody arriving in the country deserve a new build council house that's all I see .No confusion here pal I see what's happening very clearly and it's out of order.A pensioner living in a high rise has more right to a gaff with a garden than someone who's here a relatively short time.ps that pensioner who's paid in all their lives can be any colour or religion the point is they contributed many getting the new builds are young men and women who haven't not even a brother,sister, aunt ,uncle ,granny or grandad who contributed either our Scots homeless at least have that .

[@paulmcallister8948]

100% 👏

[@Spectrophia]

@@cg9856 ​You making excuses for the two tier housing system the same as those people that defend the two tier policing we now have that discriminates against the natives?

[@randommadness1021]

​@@cg9856With a comment like that, it's easy to see why you're confused 🙃

[@TunaNSweetcorn]

Reupload without the shitey subtitles

[@isking1715]

Can't listen to that voice over. 😮

[@alanknotts1844]

Now full of middle class hipsters outpricing working class people in their own areas.

[@gardengnome2409]

Surprised I didn’t see SNP campervan sales stores everywhere.

[@BIGVIN112]

Ah, Glasgow before Tony Blair & The SNP.

[@DJ_Pigg]

Denise Cobride?🤣

[@glasgowmcglasgowfacevotegr7049]

You will see boomer gammons on here whinging about the SNP and how these good old days have been lost thanks to their incompetence (they weren’t good old days they were appallingly bad - mass poverty, 57 years male life expectancy, poorer than parts of the former Soviet Union, terrible terrible crime, terrible terrible sectarianism, violent , nasty and dark) for those who don’t live here (because if you do you obviously know it’s complete and utter nonsense) Glasgow is very significantly better now and has come on immensely. The conservative boomers and gammons just don’t want independence (which is fine) so they make up nonsense. I do wonder though - (a) how does a City that was the 2nd city of the British Empire with a booming economy and 1.2m people go from that in the 1800s to looking like Chelyabinsk with 550,000 (the gifts of the Union presumably stopped around 1880?), (b) this video is slap in the middle of Labour never ending rule (which it looks like we are now going back to) so I wonder what the city will look like in 2040. What other records will we beat? Will they be able to get the life expectancy down past 57 this time?😂

[@markcaldwell2831]

Yeah, it's also a very dangerous city.

[@Azureecosse]

All cities are dangerous trust me I have lived in quite few, Glasgow is not different to most cities. Where ever you have wealth and poverty living cheek by jowl you will get crime and trouble. My Brother like me grew up in Glasgow now lives in London he does not go out after dark, my brother was a fairly tough guy in his day and street wise nothing bothered him, he thinks London a midden full of crooks and gangs and people who just want to kill you for the contents of your Lidl shopping bag.

[@andyhughes5885]

@@Azureecosse If, you go out looking for trouble, it`ll find you first. Glasgow, esp., the city centre is one of the safest places to walk about in, just don`t flash the cash or walkabout like some tourists do with huge cameras they probably have no idea how to work anyway and you`ll be fine. I`m in my 70`s now and have never had any problems in Glasgow`s city centre or even on the outskirts. I`ve lived in several areas of the city and still had no problems.

[@scotttait2197]

Didnt mention slavery , we did have a hand in that asell

[@eckmcfadyen]

Slaves in Glasgow 30 years ago? Well I left school in 94 and got paid £30 a week as an apprentice roofer you're spot on

[@solitarianihilista1454]

@@eckmcfadyen And Glasgow's full of hotels so slavery is still going strong.

[@Spectrophia]

Wit? You want them to mention the Romans as well aye? 🤣

[@2ephesians89]

@@Spectrophia Belter reply lololo

[@daviebananas1735]

@@SpectrophiaHe very clearly mentioned the merchants and their transatlantic trades. One of which was human beings. Bit odd not to mention it, although I guess this is essentially an advert.

[@randommadness1021]

Didn't last long eh? SNP have sent our country back decades.

[@albannachaviation1786]

aye free tuition, prescriptions, childcare, transport... sent us right back to 1600 aye

[@eggs1013]

Explain ?

[@randommadness1021]

@@albannachaviation1786 free transport and childcare, who gets that?

[@Spectrophia]

@@randommadness1021 Everyone under 22 gets free transport and kids from 2 years up to 4 years get free childcare and you don't have to pay a tenner a prescription when your out working like they have to in England.

[@MrBazzdoc]

​@@albannachaviation1786none of it is 'free' unless you contribute £0.00 to the tax purse

[@sandersson2813]

Glasgow is a grey, wet dump.

[@WHITEYBHOY2]

So is yer Maw

[@sandersson2813]

@@WHITEYBHOY2 waaaaaayyyy

[@sky37blue]

@@sandersson2813 Glasgow isn't as beautiful as Edinburgh but the people in Glasgow are the best

[@sandersson2813]

@@sky37blue I don't see that personally. There is too much scum in both.

[@Alex-hw3sg]

@@WHITEYBHOY2😂😂😂😂😂

[@grahammcneil7194]

Still a dump.

[@dereksmallsuk]

Lot longer than 30 years ago ffs

[@Spectrophia]

It was made in 1994. Do the math, 2024 - 1994 = 30 years.

[@Alex-hw3sg]

Fur fuck sake 🙄

[@michaelfarrell4824]

You think 1994 is longer than 30 years ago?

[@dereksmallsuk]

@@michaelfarrell4824 no. You twit. The video footage is older than 1994. Drink ma spunk .

[@Kntybum]

It’s 45 years ago

[@jamieward2586]

Here, well done fur preservin this. I remember Glesga before the SNP shoved it doon the shiter n gaslighted us tae try n be Wee Edinburgh.

[@paulmcallister8948]

This was made before Rutherglen and Cambuslang were annexed from Glasgow to South Lanarkshire in the mid 1990's. They should give it back! 🫣😫

[@GordonWaddell]

@@paulmcallister8948 They were only part of Glasgow for 21 years until 1996. The locals in the area didn't want to be part of Glasgow.

[@paulmcallister8948]

@GordonWaddell yeah I get that. But why should Edinburgh have a council boundary of 100 square miles plus (when the city proper is less than half that amount)? Whilst Glasgow is back down to about 68 square miles now? Basically, Glasgow is a city that only has about 1/4 of its modern day suburbs contained within the city council area. Similar to Liverpool and Manchester in England in that regard. ie small city council areas surrounding by so many needless boroughs which contain most of their suburbs. In Glasgow's case, huge swathes of north and south Lanarkshire, west and east Dunbartonshire, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire's populations consist of Glasgow urban area suburbs. In my opinion, local government authorities should be shaken up again to reflect the fact. And an enlarged city of about 1.5M people would reflect Glasgow's true size. And make the city prosper with many nice suburbs paying their council taxes into the City proper. 🤔🧐

[@wimpymate]

How mile square miles is Glasgow metropolitan area ?

[@paulmcallister8948]

@wimpymate I believe it's 102 square miles and has just a touch over 1M people. Which is fractionally bigger than modern day Edinburgh city council area (which is seriously over extended). But don't forget that the likes of East Kilbride and Cumbernauld aren't even included in that figure. I feel that the more realistic Glasgow City Region's figure of 190 square miies and a 1.8M population represents a truer reflection of Glasgow's true metropolitan population. And I think that needs to be brought in as a bonefied local authority in some way. Similar to the Hamburg, Germany model of governance I do believe. Would also make for a much more prosperous City Region with the likes of the Airport at Paisley included. And the more affluent suburbs like Bishopbriggs, Bearsden, Giffnock and Kirkintilloch paying their council taxes into the City Region.

[@wimpymate]

@@paulmcallister8948 I googled it and it said around 1200 square miles with a population over 2.8 million I hear that East Kilbride should soon be engulfed all the way back to strathaven

[@incface]

Forgot to say it was also built by slavery.

[@Alex-hw3sg]

, whit ya wanting an apologies aye ? Want me to “take the knee” get tae fuck

[@chrispaterson6372]

SNP do a great job 👏🏻🤡

[@Spectrophia]

This video has nothing to do with SNP what is it with you peoples obsession with SNP? Lets see how it is in a few years time with two tier Keir running the show now 😂 Bet it will be even more shite than it already is. Note how England, Northern Ireland and Wales have went down the shitter in exactly the same way Glasgow has since 2017 and the SNP don't run their country so what is the excuse for that?

[@sky37blue]

@@Spectrophia Exactly, now I hate the SNP as much as any right minded Indy supporter but I went to Newcastle last year. The place looked like Glasgow in the 70's, it was absolutely awful, just deprivation and poverty on a far bigger scale.