"Glasgow Gets to Work", 1935. AI Enhanced. BW. Upscaled to HD.

[@karenhendry7686]

My home town. So changed yet so recognisable.

[@dermotmcglinchey282]

Really well done , it’s not just nostalgia it’s history in motion …This was 88 years ago but yet Glasgow had its own character and while not a Glaswegian I never met a Glaswegian that didn’t actually have great pride in their city…

[@livinghistoryaienhanced]

Thank you. I agree, out of all the films of the Towns and Cities that I've worked on so far, no other people have come close to the pride and interest in their own city that you find with the Glaswegians. Perhaps London comes close, but then that's also a more prominent and international city with a much larger catchment demographic.

[@dermotmcglinchey282]

@@livinghistoryaienhanced Thanks and yes please keep doing what you do , it’s important that people like you remind us of how our parents grandparents and even great grandparents went about their daily routine ..Fantastic work well done ..👏👏👏

[@johnmclean1046]

The first time I’ve ever seen the car ferry docking, but what a place, spotless.

[@crabtonia]

Thank you...this was the Glasgow my Father knew and talked of so often...dgp

[@AlexMcGinlay]

That was absolutely superb!

[@Captain_Scarlet_SIG]

All those lovely electric trams ripped up when the councillors and politicians told us diesel buses were the future and they knew best, it’s all happening again.

[@woooster17]

There should be a ‘common sense’ test for politicians. All of todays would fail. 🙄

[@richardbrown1189]

Excellent record of a bygone age. The scale and elegance of the bridges is remarkable. I believe at that time Glasgow was known as the second city of the Empire.

[@MrZOMBIE170]

Glasgow was so clean back than

[@garryallison4716]

Nostalgic and beautiful at the same time. What’s happened to our country and buildings. Hasn’t changed for the better, that’s for sure.

[@livinghistoryaienhanced]

An assualt from within.

[@margaretdegnan8438]

All the Beautiful Buildings destroyed great architecture all gone 😢

[@danielmckinlay2833]

Come on folks life for many was absolutely wretched in that period

[@scottcjmckelviephotography]

To you it was wretched. You're looking at that from the perspective of comparing 1935 to today. No different to the mistake historians made comparing today's living standards to that of the 1840s. Try comparing what was before and then you'll realise that it was a vast improvement. You just can't compare today to back then as that is not how you measure progress.

[@THEOBOTS]

Seen my great grandfather in this, I showed him this. Brilliant video 👍🏻👍🏻

[@livinghistoryaienhanced]

Wow!

[@garymcatear822]

To think ma grannie and granda walked around those streets and over those bridges when they looked brand spanking new, they lived in the Calton so they were walking those streets in this film daily.

[@rjmacf0015]

A remarkable record from so long ago given great clarity by the processing. Well done. A rare time in Scottish history between the devastation of two wars and still a city with a major global manufacturing output. All of that was to be destroyed by war and the decline of the standing of the country as a whole. The environmental conditions have improved dramatically but its salutary to note the population of the city has at best stood still if not declined since with little manufacturing of note remaining.

[@livinghistoryaienhanced]

Thank you. Indeed a pregnant pause between bookends of devastation and the subsequent long drawn out decline and destruction of Britain overall. I feel these records of the past are important to maintain for the collective consciousness, particularly for the latest generations that know so little of their own history. Thanks for your comment. :)

[@rjmacf0015]

@@livinghistoryaienhanced I could not agree more. Fundamentally important to preserve such records and in this case enhance the awareness of “ordinary” life. Again well done and thanks for this hard work and positive contribution to records.

[@livinghistoryaienhanced]

@@rjmacf0015 Thank you. 🙏

[@rabscots910]

Well...what can one say ? The city was alive. Even the street lights were elegant. Now we have burn your eyes out L.E.D. smart weapon systems. I guess time have indeed changed.

[@LadGlasgow]

Good work on this...well put together 👍👍👍

[@1gerard47]

What thatcher done to Scotland, in one word,Rape.

[@Earlofmar1]

I never knew about the Finnieston tunnel using a lift and could take cars. I used to walk the tunnel in 70's to work but by that time there was no lift and no cars.

[@chriseverett1335]

There are three tunnels. One pedestrian (still in use as it carries a large diameter watermain) and two for vehicles - one for each direction. When the vehicular tunnels were abandoned they were backfilled with sand. The pedestrian tunnel is accessible from the south rotunda and from a manhole in the road in front of the north rotunda.

[@MrAlamo1957]

A great wee film of old Glasgow my mother and father were married in 1935 and lived in Cumberland Street.

[@DaveMuirhead]

My dad was born in Govan in 1931. When my dad was a wee laddie he lived in the tenements of Govan. it was the poorer area. His mam gave him away to live with his uncle in England where he then grew up. He must have been about 4 or 5. I never met my Scottish grandad, but apparently he worked on the shipyards at Govan. Dad passed away aged 91 in 2022. I will have some relatives in Glasgow who i have never met. I did have an aunty Elsie my dad's sister who lived in the North East. My dad also had another sister called Annie. I think there was a brother called Bill who lived in Blair Atholl, and two more brothers Eddie and Ian. Possibly an Alex too. Big family who I've never met.

[@livinghistoryaienhanced]

Thanks for sharing, maybe one day you could meet them all.

[@bblair2627]

rs mcoll, boots bank of Scotland, frasers

[@alfredroyal3473]

It’s a sad city centre now. Sauchiehall St, Union St and Argyll St are cowps (dumps or tips).

[@rgbwr]

This could be any city in the UK of the era. Proud people, a proud nation.... no more.

[@Wildscotsman24]

Knightswood and great western road so cool to see it back then its not changed much

[@Ukvideoclips]

Thank you for posting thing.

[@ProjectCreativityGuy96]

Such a beautiful song to play when You are getting the Govan malky behind a Polis van parked ootside eh Costcutters and the community center! 😃👍 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥁 _Representing Glasgow, City of Culture, 2023!_ 🥁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌍😁😁😁😁😁😁😁🌍

[@Sten111]

Interesting to see the horse drawn traffic. Pity the trams have gone. At least air quality now better.

[@AlwaysASunnydayBuster]

The year Elvis was born Dear ole Glasgow toon well edited together an Glasgow looks amazing wish we got the score for the cup final 😂

[@johnmulligan912]

Thank you

[@scottcjmckelviephotography]

This video is wonderful. Sad to see that so many of our wonderful buildings were lost, probably due to the Second World War. Amazing to see the housing still looks much the same.

[@sligobhoy8152]

Different video. Strange, trying to absorb (age60). Perhaps it`s the AI that shows the clarity.....Good work, thanks.

[@wboyle9721]

Life was tough then 6 day working week no washing machines and all the modern items we have today

[@jimclark1374]

Very clean looking. Not how I remember Glasgow. Dirty as feck!

[@TrueNativeScot]

Very racially filthy too now

[@PeterMcLeanWonderfulshipLongma]

Magic.

[@gavrfc09]

Its amazing how many health and safety hazards are in this video lol the guy climbing off the train as its not stopped and crossing the roads without any lights 🤣 mental

[@astra47420]

Love history

[@geecars6263]

Wonderful

[@livinghistoryaienhanced]

Thank you , glad you enjoyed it! :)

[@ready260]

They wrecked it in the 60s

[@someoneelse.2252]

There's ma hoose !!!

[@livinghistoryaienhanced]

...with a moose loose! lol

[@someoneelse.2252]

@@livinghistoryaienhanced : ps... I enjoyed your video. Keep up the good work.

[@ProjectCreativityGuy96]

There's a moose, loose, aboot this hoose! 😬😬😬 Honestly, I do have a mouse in My house that drives My older Brother nuts when He's trying to sleep at night! 😂😂😂

[@stephenlever419]

Fraser and sons later to be one house of Fraser

[@GurpreetSingh-pw7tf]

Everyone is fit and healthy that time

[@markshrimpton3138]

I’m afraid you’re looking through rose-tinted specs. Infant mortality rates had improved by the time this film was made but were still high; as many as 100 deaths per 1000 births. The killer disease diphtheria was rife too, with around 15,000 deaths per annum until about 1940. Malnutrition led to physical under-development and conditions such as rickets. TB was still a major problem, as was alcoholism and lung cancer etc.

[@SMILEVIDEOTRAINS]

excellent.

[@johnnyboy-f6v]

Two things I learned... a paper you could buy (?) with the Half Time score! Is that true? And I never knew there was a Finnieston tunnel.

[@johnmurray1044]

I had forgot about half time scores if you bought the early edition of an evening paper you got the half time scores, late edition full time scores, so long ago I was only a wean 6-8 year old.

[@tracyyy99]

The Glasgow Harbour Tunnel (Finnieston) Rotundas are two red brick stone rotundas which flank the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland. The North Rotunda is located on Tunnel Street in the Finnieston area of Glasgow with the South Rotunda at Plantation Place in Govan. These gave access to the tunnel, only used briefly for Motor Vehicle Transport.

[@alanoneill3065]

and the latest racing results

[@alanoneill3065]

Stop Press

[@mikec7108]

Everywhere tidy. No Graffiti. No fat people !!

[@michaelmcfadden1622]

No potholes😂❤

[@DavidHennessey1984]

04:00 - A certain time lord has landed in the Glasgow suburbs... 😁

[@ktipuss]

1935? There's a couple of brand new "Coronation" Class trams in some shots, and they were introduced in 1937. E.G., 6:18

[@livinghistoryaienhanced]

Thanks, the film source stated 1935. It's not my maths. )

[@stephenturner6075]

Glasgow looked so much nicer back then. The city is an absolute toilet today.

[@tatata1543]

Still, at least we have got rid if rickets, polio and TB in kids so not all bad. Also, have a look at film from the gorbals and all the other slums around that time, that might get you thinking,

[@stephenturner6075]

@@tatata1543 Yep...of course there was slum areas and disease which needed sorted and in the main this is what happened but there were so many beautiful buildings torn down at the same time which I attribute to poor planning from the people in charge back then but my point was really about how clean the city centre streets were in this footage compared to today and embarrassingly there's a particular slum in the southside of Glasgow right here right now in 2023.

[@tatata1543]

@@stephenturner6075 You weren’t alive then, you have no idea how it looked other than through some old film. You are just another of those dreamers who look at these videos and then wax lyrical about how things were so much better then, the comments below these kind of videos are full of this rosy view of a past that never existed. In the 1930’s Glasgow had a reputation of being a dirty dangerous city full of drunks and razor gangs with high rates of infant mortality and short lifespans. The idea that it was a better place then is, quite frankly, absurd. Trying reading No Mean City which was, coincidentally, first published in 1935. Hopefully the scales might fall from your eyes but frankly I doubt it.

[@jacqueline4905]

Pity all the oil and gas weath went to london. Imagine where we would be now

[@johnkennedy3970]

Who won the match?

[@jimclark1374]

What do you mean by AI enhanced. I see the images have been softened and sharpened, if that's not a contradiction in terms. But what else do you mean?

[@alanoneill3065]

manic music does nowt for me

[@ZL54JK8]

So mute the sound.

[@alanoneill3065]

@@ZL54JK8 eh?

[@Teeb2023]

@@alanoneill3065 Mute. The. Sound.

[@alanoneill3065]

@@Teeb2023 sshhh

[@Teeb2023]

@@alanoneill3065 Well, that might work, but you'd probably still be better to Mute. The. Sound.

[@williamsmith8097]

The high watermark of our culture....

[@benbhoy9]

1935 ….Subway goes both ways…..2023 Subway goes one way….. 🤔

[@marybreen6937]

The place looks better then than now sturgeon should be ashamed of herself she has ruined scotland

[@andrewheaney6858]

It was the city planers that destroyed some of Glasgows finest buildings Mary, check out the old St Enoch’s station, it was an architectural beauty, nearly brings a tear to my eye every time I see it !

[@michellepeoplelikeyoumurde8373]

Mary you need to go to a optician

[@andrewheaney6858]

@@michellepeoplelikeyoumurde8373 The greatest ever destruction of Scotland came from Margret Thatcher in the late 70’s through the 80’s, it was brutal, she de- industrialised our nation causing mass employment, poverty, misery on a scale never seen before, the legacy of of forefathers industries car making, shipbuilding, coal steel works etc were put tote sword, she was darling of the South but hated the Scots with a passion for some reason, probably because of our ancient rebellious nature, this video warms my heart, but honestly it’s so painful to look back on Thatchers destructive impact on Scotland, should Scotland ever gain independence it would be more down to Thatcher than any legacy of Robert de Bruce or the Strurgeon !

[@marybreen6937]

@@michellepeoplelikeyoumurde8373 we see you have never been near a town or shopping area,ya poor wee sole you will want glasses the blanked out ones

[@johnfitzpatrick4007]

Bet you get all your reports from the Daily record or all the other colonial papers.

[@jaycee2392]

sort o fluffy floating feelings music.flipity flopity bingy bongy fruptie froptie gez a swalla o yur mankie juice!!..eye how gallisss!...🤡

[@livinghistoryaienhanced]

No so inspired by your lyrics either dude lol

[@georgewynne7824]

Street names😢

[@neobayer]

Posting a colorized thumbnail for a B&W film is deceptive

[@rjmacf0015]

It says BW in the title and its 1935??

[@DessieTots]

More completely inappropriate music. Why not use no music or something that gives the viewer a sense they are looking at Glasgow ffs.

[@livinghistoryaienhanced]

Mute is a option :) I'm also a musician but music has been a bit of a quick dash sometimes at the end of the whole upscale process. This has changed. 3 shocking new videos coming very soon.

[@gerryregan3577]

Not a traffic light or zebra crossing in sight!!!!!!😂no litter,no wee unemployed chavs in tracksuits it’s their wee pit bulls,no heroin,but plenty of domestic violence,alcoholism etc