Glasgow The Blight

Glasgow - The Blight part one of a four part programme all about various aspects of live in Glasgow during the 1980s.

[@thetroubadourlounge323]

KZbin's the only place you get to see fascinating content like this. The BBC and STV seem to want us to forget the past. Wonder why.

[@88_garnet8]

I'm sure they do. You know it.

[@HissyMcHissyfit]

They want others to believe we had White privilege & never struggled.

[@ahoolachan]

Hi Alex - Lecturer at Glasgow here in City Planning. Thanks for uploading these. They were actually part of the curriculum several years ago but were taken down, so thanks for sharing.

[@alexglass]

If you need a copy let me know

[@jaye26]

ONE DAY THESE GLASGOW PEOPLE WILL WATCH YOU TUBE..AND SEE THEMSELVES ON KZbin WATCHING GLASGOW BLIGHT

[@jimthecopywriter9793]

Brilliant upload mate. Man even as near back as the mid 90s (there was still a Posso, Black Hill, Valley in Maryhill) Glasgow has changed so much

[@fluchterschoen]

Those gangs still exist. If you're unlucky enough to knock over one of their domino tables you're as good as dead.

[@clarkjamieson692]

I really enjoyed this time capsule on saying that it was mixture of emotions happy and sad reflections .Thanks.

[@CasiniDivision]

I grew up in the gorbals in the 80’s so it was a trip to see the old tenements as the area is completely different these days. My dad lived in the hutch e tenements for a while before I was born. We used to call them the dampy hooses for obvious reasons.

[@StuffOffYouStuff]

Interesting doc thanks

[@BlytheWorld1972]

Absolutely fantastic uploads - thanks :)

[@twiggyvlogs6441]

That wee auld lady with no pals left around 😭

[@taiterobinson793]

2:25 is shot at the bottom of Craighall road, just next to the Forth & Clyde canal.

[@17henke]

Cracking content in your uploads Alex.. compulsive viewing

[@alexglass]

Thanks very much Alex. Can’t take all the credit. Most of the recent videos are professional programmes captured many years ago. I have been waiting to upload them for a few years and now the opportunity is here now and great others have got the time to watch them and making it all worthwhile

[@jimcunningham9975]

Those boy's glue sniffing reminded me of preisthill

[@abw48]

I was born in a Tenement,top floor, in Toonhied, 1948, these were well built buildings, solid stone, though poorly maintained by the Council, but kept as clean as possible by the residents, sweeping and chalking The Close. However they should have refurbished these buildings rather than pulling them down and replacing them with ugly high rise soulless places. I have relatives that moved to Cumbernauld, East Kilbride, Drumchapel, Clydebank, Rutherglen and Bishopbriggs. I left there in 1966.

[@andrewgibb5191]

Evening Alex, thank you for uploading these videos. My father Andy passed away almost a decade ago and it was fantastic to hear his voice again. Would you be able to point me in the direction of the source material these videos. Thanks Andrew

[@alexglass]

Hi Andrew if you want to message me privately we can arrange something. My email is [e-mail] happy to help

[@hippyskin6490]

Good video 👍 cheers

[@fluchterschoen]

I trust that Dr MIsra was given a Knighthood for his pioneering work to use dominoes to divert teenagers away from glue and heroin? What a visionary! :) 29:11 - looks like Batman met his match

[@indigohammer5732]

Jimmy Grimes on guitar!

[@colshythecomedian]

Mr Gibb died in 2012 aged 69.

[@joecrozier3236]

Fascinating documentary. Informative, thought-provoking, moving. Thanks for posting. Did the city build the nature reserve that Allen and Angela were advocating?

[@alexglass]

There is a park as far as I am aware. Maybe not on the same scale but still helps

[@alexglass]

Check out Cunningha Loop

[@joecrozier3236]

​@@alexglass Found it, thanks. Cuningar Loop in Rutherglen. Looks like a fun park -- very outdoorsy. I left Glasgow for Toronto in '69. By '73, when I was back on vacation, everyone else was gone -- East Kilbride, England, etc. Glasgow in the '60s was right out of MacKinnon's film Small Faces. Thugs on the streets, spraying Tongs Ya Bas on every wall. Thugs in the classroom, 'teaching' us. I hear that after being the European City of Culture in 1990 and hosting the Commonwealth Games in 2014, it's no longer the Ninth Circle of Hell that traumatized so many of us. (In my case, for life, it seems.)

[@alexglass]

@@joecrozier3236 it’s completely changed for the better in my opinion. There is still a dark side.

[@stephenwalker850]

Fo sho

[@transferdatathreewally24]

On a lighter note, the millennium done is on at 16.59

[@alanoneill3065]

I think that Town Planners and Architects should have be accommodated in the projects they design and approve for ...hmm 5 years

[@clairehannah6833]

The Real Eastenders

[@johnbull9195]

🤣 It's like a safari!

[@fluchterschoen]

A group of youngsters from Bridgeton got taken on a day trip to Blair Drummond Safari Park. The minibus stopped in the lion enclosure to let them get a better look. A couple of them nipped out the back of the bus for a fag. The Park Ranger came racing up in his pickup truck, yelling at them to get back in their bus -" can you not see the lions?!" "Calm doon pal. We're naw gauntae touch yer lions"

[@paulief3817]

And if you all look to your left ladies and gentlemen you may catch a glimpse of a poor person in their natural habitat. Note the track suit bottoms, or "trackies" and hooded top by which they can be identified

[@user-ct1vo2sd3v]

The dog at 4:09 is dead .

[@-trixiespumpkins3846]

Good

[@alclark10]

No it’s not, it was 42 last week.

[@Morrie-queens]

Every weegie in this film are deed. The average life expectancy in Glasgow is 45.

[@johnmckee7640]

Was this 1981..

[@alexglass]

I am sure it was 1983

[@johnmckee7640]

@@alexglass. How do you know.

[@alexglass]

@@johnmckee7640 sure it says it on the film

[@leonarddavies288]

More hardship in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 it’s getting as bad as Birkenhead now it is up there