Glasgow Trams 1959

33 Minutes. Another fine video with narration by the late Roy Hubble.

[@StevieBluenoseScott]

My old Glasgow town, fantastic thanks for this.

[@tressteleg1]

😊👍

[@wboyle9721]

Great footage of Glasgow a great city

[@tressteleg1]

Yes, but it was even greater before the so-called experts decided that buses were better ☹️

[@1800morris]

Brilliant doco, I was 3yrs old when it was filmed, I have just watched it (2019),I still remember the trams and streets from when my Mother used to take me with her everywhere. I now live in Australia. Loved the nostalgia. Well done ,loved every minute. I wanted to jump into the screen and go and see my Mother. bless you Roy Hubble.

[@tressteleg1]

I’m pleased that it brought back such happy memories! As you may have seen, sadly we lost Roy quite some years ago.

[@edwardoneil3962]

Me as well. A much better time all our families and friends would be alive and much more younger 😀

[@tressteleg1]

😊👍

[@alexpettigrew695]

, . ,.

[@billyjay4672]

That was magic thanks to Roy having the insite and of coarse the money to have this on film.

[@tressteleg1]

Sadly Roy is no longer with us which is a pity as I’m sure he would be thrilled to see the response to this film he made. Today’s people with phones capable of taking video images could not imagine that the movie film Roy used would have cost several pounds per minute in today’s money.

[@awb17a96]

Brilliant. Videos like this are priceless for preserving history... So much of Glasgow is now lost....

[@tressteleg1]

So true. Roy did an excellent job of capturing the tramway, and obviously the city, the way it was. It has also proved to be one of my most popular videos.

[@josephmanning636]

That lovely movie takes me right back to my own childhood in Glasgow. In the school holidays you could travel as far as you liked on a tram for a penny. Any other time you thought of the tram as your only means of transport. Glaswegians didn't appreciate what they had in those days, but we became emotionally upset when the authorities closed down the trams and ripped up the lines. It took an Englishman to think so far in advance and to present us, 60 years later, with such an artistic and historical work of art.

[@tressteleg1]

I’m sure that Roy would have appreciated your words.

[@terrypussypower]

Ha! 1959.... the year of my birth! I recall riding a Glasgow tram with my granny in 1962, from Hopetoun Place where we lived in Townhead, right along Cathedral Street to Dundas Street in the City Centre. I always remember the little tinkley bell that greeted your entrance to the tram. And the spiral staircase at the back!

[@tressteleg1]

You got born just in time!

[@alexrankin1046]

I wish my parents were still alive, they were both Glaswegians, and I’d love to show them this footage. They were both still living in the city as a young couple at this time.

[@tressteleg1]

😊

[@AM-oe4rk]

I have seen nothing better! absolutely fantastic!

[@mariedennis4435]

A fascinating historical video and an excellent commentary. Thank you for your effort. John Dennis

[@tressteleg1]

Thanks. It’s just a pity that Roy is not with us to see the acclaim his great movie/video and commentary has created..

[@davidcoleman6032]

Brilliant film and commentary!Great it was all recorded before it was lost!

[@tressteleg1]

😊👍

[@MrPoupard]

I'm a Glaswegian. I love watching this. I'm glad you had the foresight to shoot this in August 1959. I was 15 months old then.I would love to enter that world if only for a day.

[@tressteleg1]

The late Roy Hubble is the one to be thanked for taking this movie film and for his interesting commentary on what we are watching. All I did was video his movie while he told the stories. It is an outstanding movie film, that’s for sure!

[@reverendbluejeans1748]

How was life in the victorian area in Glasgow. It looks amazing.

[@robertkerr8205]

I was 13 months old then MrPoupard, but was born in Edinburgh.

[@reverendbluejeans1748]

@@robertkerr8205 I would like to go back there for a day.

[@robs4988]

A day would be more than enough. I was seven in 1959 and I still remember raw sewage running down the streets and being scared of the rats that were everywhere.

[@marymcgovern6488]

Loved the tram cars I was a conductress also a driver bringing back lovely memories thanks .?

[@tressteleg1]

Great to hear from you. I’m pleased it brought back happy memories 😊

[@wingco214]

I lived in Glasgow as a schoolboy from 1956 to 59 and that is exactly how I remember it. Great memories.

[@tressteleg1]

That’s great to hear. Thanks!

[@GrizzleyBear72]

My Mum has lived in Mosspark for 51 years and i have lived in Mosspark for 47 years it was wonderful to see Mosspark from 60 years ago at 08.45-11.30 wonderful to watch and brought back memories for my mum

[@tressteleg1]

I’m pleased you both enjoyed it.

[@Meerkatbear]

Thanks very much for uploading this excellent video. I was born in Glasgow in 1959 so the title immediately attracted me! I lived in a street adjacent to Mosspark Boulevard so the scenes around 8:40 were especially interesting - I was dead chuffed (Glasgow expression!) to hear Mosspark being described as being a "posh part" of the city and close to "well to do areas". One of my earliest memories was riding with my Dad at the front of the top deck of a No 3 tram heading along the Boulevard into town with my Dad. Bet the Council now wish they had kept at least some of their tram network - it would have put Edinburgh's single-line "network" to shame.

[@tressteleg1]

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[@NEWCASTLE.UNITED.]

Nice touch having Alan Partridge narrate the film.

[@tressteleg1]

Actually the narrator was the late Roy Hubble who made the movie film. He was named at the beginning.

[@pdevine1959]

The year I was born. Thanks for posting the colour of the trams are so nice

[@tressteleg1]

😊👍

[@MsBigJohnny]

Excellent film, so full of information, and a good dose of humour too, really enjoyed watching

[@tressteleg1]

😊👍

[@scottyerkes1867]

Very interesting look into old Glasgow trams. Thank you for sharing.😀😀

[@RGC198]

Great video. I actually have a copy of the en tire video, including this section. Roy Hubble did an excellent coverage of the UK tram systems.

[@tressteleg1]

Thanks. I wish he were still around to see all the fine comments made about his work.

[@SaxonSuccess]

Wonderful stuff! I remember riding the trams in Liverpool when I was a young boy. Bumpy and so noisy. It's a memory I'm very pleased to have. What a different world it was, brilliantly portrayed in this film, which is of great historical importance.

[@tressteleg1]

You must have got a surprise to see your old trams elsewhere 😊

[@SaxonSuccess]

@@tressteleg1 Yes!! I had no idea that Liverpool had sold them on. Whatever was Glasgow thinking, buying those old rattlers?

[@tressteleg1]

I think that Roy narrating that video made some comment about the poor standard of those Liverpool trams but I suppose that Glasgow thought they were better than some of their ancient fourwheelers. Who’s to know motives this much later?

[@lornamackenzie343]

Great footage of the Glasgow trams around Glasgow. I was born in Glasgow in 1962 the year they were scrapped, a terrible decision.

[@tressteleg1]

Truly bad decision.

[@alastairhopkins245]

And then the railways were axed!!! And now there is the demand for more roads!!! And there is no more space!!!

[@tressteleg1]

Politicians chase the most votes and think that everybody wants more roads. Too bad for those who don’t have a car.

[@666Codpiece]

Superb piece of work. Captures the system in all it`s glory. Well done!

[@tressteleg1]

👍

[@eileanvm]

What a fantastic half hour of footage! I remember travelling on the Coronation Trams with my mother. I was born in 1957. I particularly recall passing the old iron railings at Trongate, that protected the island in the middle of Trongate above the subway. I was always fascinated by the seats that you could flip both ways. My mother was a smoker ( as most people were then ), and I remember her striking matches on the metal match-strike plates on the backs of the upstairs seats.

[@tressteleg1]

😊👍

[@ThePerson1959]

I really enjoyed this film. I was just weeks old when this was filmed. I found this a delight to watch but also loved seeing all the old cars and lorries. Thanks so much for showing us this video.

[@tressteleg1]

I’m pleased that you enjoyed it 👍

[@fares-please]

Thank you for sharing this. My Dad was from Glasgow and I was always fascinated by his stories of the trams there.

[@tressteleg1]

😊👍 Nice to hear.

[@graememellor8319]

Absolutely wonderful, thanks for sharing :D

[@vsvnrg3263]

fabulous. the wobbly tram. the commentary. the colour. they all look like single level trams with another tram put on top. fabulous.

[@tressteleg1]

Nearly all British trams were double deckers 😊

[@pduffy421]

My mother turned 21 in September 1959, nearly 11 years before I was born.

[@tressteleg1]

Well, looks like you missed the tram! Roy’s photography here shows you what your city was like in the days of your mother and grandparents.

[@brucewilliams8714]

Well, that makes a change from watching Melbourne trams, which I've just been doing! What an insight into Glasgow history. Being able hop off before the tram stopped; I used to do that in Melbourne. The only double-decker trams I've used were in Hong Kong. Thanks a lot for posting this.

[@tressteleg1]

😊

[@allymackenzie6198]

Superb cine film my friend. One of the best I have seen, superb detail ,

[@malcolmmacdonald2036]

Fantastic footage...thoroughly enjoyed it 👍

[@tressteleg1]

😊👍

[@heinzer69]

Absolutely spiffing video !

[@tressteleg1]

😊👍

[@studebaker4217]

Excellent film, many thanks.

[@elizabethdodsdivers1922]

Thank you for getting back to me.

[@tramways_1435]

Magnificent ! Thank you for sharing !

[@tressteleg1]

👍

[@rodericgray5202]

Good video. And the narration makes it even better. A joy to watch.

[@tressteleg1]

😊

[@edwardoneil3962]

How times have changed and I would say for the worst. You cannot get a bus theese days without waiting an hour in the pishing rain sleet and snow. I wish that we could all go back to the 50s life was so much better for people everywhere.

[@tressteleg1]

Unfortunately poor bus services are largely the result of many more people owning a car these days. Whether the disappearance of trams sped up a preference for car driving is uncertain.

[@edwardoneil3962]

@@tressteleg1 It would be a much better world without cars anyway.

[@tressteleg1]

@@edwardoneil3962 Only if public transport is excellent, which it is not in most places.

[@AndrewKerr5]

Thanks for brilliant video, some of the places featured are on my front door, quite literally. operating in areas where the trains had been cut in the late 1800s to early 1900s, or so I'm led to believe.

[@tressteleg1]

Roy Hubble certainly did a great job with his camera and narration. Glad you liked it.

[@kevinpatrickburke]

8:35 mins in to the film and your in Mosspark. I was minus 9 at this stage (born 68) my family were living in Mosspark at the time of your filming. It's really amazing seeing how the place once looked. If time travel is ever a thing, that's where I'm going. I missed the trams by 6 years, but on Mosspark Boulevard the 'reserve track section' you mention is still there today. It's been earthed over and it's mostly grass now but on that section which ran parallel to the Boulevard you can still see the occasional part of the cobbles along which the No3 would run. I'm currently home in Mosspark and I cross over that former reserved track daily when taking the family dog in to Bellahouston Park. Totally loved watching the film, many thanks. Yours Kevin.

[@tressteleg1]

I’m pleased that this has explained a bit about your neighbourhood as it was. However I am not the cameraman, but he was a friend until he died in a car accident several years after narrating his work.

[@Fyodor48]

This is truly an excellent recorded film with eloquent intelligent narration. Despite the chaps that made these films, for their are more of them; being enthusiastic amateur film makers : The finished product is of the very highest standard and these amateur film makers should be ‘officially recognised’ by Glasgow city council if they haven’t already been. These social documentaries are treasures indeed. And for folks of my vintage a real life real time journey down memory lane. For what it is worth, I would like to record my sincere thanks to the families of these gentlemen, your dad’s, brothers, and uncles have done a remarkable job. *You should be very proud of them.*

[@tressteleg1]

I’m please that you liked it. I just wish it were possible to re-master the film with my film converter. All of this movie was taken by Roy Hubble who unfortunately is no longer with us. It certainly is a good history of Glasgow, at least with an emphasis on the trams. I will send on your appreciation to his widow.

[@Fyodor48]

@@tressteleg1 thank you I would be most grateful if you were to do that, it would mean a lot to me. As for the 're-mastering' etc, i whilst at one time a keen hobby photographer, much like these chaps were, only less competent! When it comes to anything digital i am utterly hopeless so of zero use to you. That said, i think it excellent quality, i over the years have watched many 're mastered and colorised' old vintage film of the social documentary type, and whilst i used to prefer the original rendering of old b/w social doc uploads , I did come round to prefferingthe updated colorised remastered uploads. thank you so much for keeping these memories alive for us to enjoy, Tis very much appreciated Best Fyodor

[@tressteleg1]

Your previous posting was sent on and an appreciative reply received. The digital transfer was done by simply pointing my then new 1984 video camera at the screen while the camera ran and Roy narrated. Now have a machine which actually takes a photograph of every frame in the video and composes them into a video sequence. The machine is rather slow, but the results are good. Roy’s original quality was remarkable, and although this version is good, it would be much better done as described above. However the film was donated to I think a company which I suppose may ultimately make DVDs from it. Who knows? To give you some idea of the quality obtainable by that modern method, this video from Melbourne was done that way. Melbourne Trams 1965 - 1983. Silent Movie Digital Remake. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZjGaq1ohLhjd6s

[@Fyodor48]

@@tressteleg1 thank you kindly for forwarding that to his wife; after all the intervening years from Roy making the films to now; I am sure Roy's wife will have a lifetime of memories of their life together, like the rest of us married folks, good memories and the odd not so good, such is the way of life for us mere mortals.... However that said, how lovely it must be for Roy's wife to be able to tune in turen on and listen to Roy's endearing voice which most obviously portrays his love of the topic, and his craftsmanship. Not many of our generation have the opportunity to leave such for posterity, and for our extended family's to enjoy. Not withstanding the utter joy his work brings, and will continue to do so in perpetuity....... *My sincerre thanks to both Roy, and at times i'm sure, his delightful but longsuffering wife (as Roy travels the country making a record for complete strangers to him to enjoy at the time, but also decades later* thank you again tressteleg for your kindness and for the link you left; Tis appreciated Best F

[@tressteleg1]

Thanks for all of that. I will pass it on to his widow. I’m sure she will,appreciate it.

[@Kirkee7]

Very interesting piece of transport history.

[@tressteleg1]

Henry Jurkiewicz 😊👍

[@Conalgal]

Am born and bred Glasgow. Loved this. My mum drove a tram in the 50’s. Did the stobcross route to Barrhead which appeared in the film.

[@tressteleg1]

Interesting!

[@gary0768]

Thank you so much for this film, very rare footage of Thornliebank road at Barrmill road 16:30 - 17:30 where I grew up which has hardly changed in 60 years An excellent rare film Well done!

[@tressteleg1]

Pleased that you enjoyed it😊😊

[@tressteleg1]

Just looked. Easy to see it. Have fun ‘at home’ today!

[@patricksmodels]

What fantastic footage and commentary! Congratulations!

[@tressteleg1]

It certainly is! It’s just a pity that Roy is not around any more to hear all the great comments like your own.

[@seanlookalike]

An absolute gem of a film thank you so much for the upload

[@tressteleg1]

Thanks. That Glasgow movie is extraordinary.

[@ronaldbayne1431]

An excellent reminder of past British technology. An excellent presenter/narrator, present day presenters could learn a lot from it. The subject being more important than the ego build of the presenter. Thanks. Rmb

[@tressteleg1]

Yes Roy did do a good commentary in a matter of fact manner. It’s too bad he was taken from us years ago.

[@davidpeacock1302]

This has made my night thank you!

[@tressteleg1]

Thanks. It’s just a pity that Roy who narrated and filmed this is no longer with us to enjoy these accolades.

[@lesliechrol-frolowicz3480]

Wonderful - brings back memories!

[@jamesboyd8856]

I remember some of those areas quite well. I was in Glasgow the night the last trams ran in 1962 and have several slides my dad took. One is of a horse drawn tram. It was pouring rain and I remember putting a penny on the track to have it squashed. Unfortunately I have no idea where it went. It was nostalgic to see and ride in a tram in Hong Kong about 20 years ago.

[@tressteleg1]

😊👍

[@geecars6263]

That was thoroughly enjoyable, thanks for uploading it

[@tressteleg1]

😊👍

[@lundsweden]

Glasgow 1959: huge trams, tiny subway trains!

[@tressteleg1]

Certainly true!

[@Lepusrabbit]

It's a marvellous film ,

[@smartieplum]

Brilliant film. Loved seeing Parkhead.

[@tressteleg1]

👍

[@hughmowat7550]

An absolutely fantastic piece of film showing what a fantastic system the city planners of the time just disregarded in the name of modernisation. Thank you very much for posting it and especially the part with the Boundary Bar at the corner of Springburn Road and Hawthorn Street, I grew up there. I was 5 when the film was made asking for a "threehaepney hauf" no doubt, lol.

[@tressteleg1]

I am happy that you liked it. It’s just a pity that Roy is no longer with us to receive this praise he so justly deserves.

[@andrewsmith-cm9qw]

fantastic historical footage thank you Roy

[@tressteleg1]

Thanks. It’s just a pity that we lost Roy quite a few years ago.

[@andrewsmith-cm9qw]

@@tressteleg1 he has left a fantastic historical visual treat for all glaswegians and students of history to enjoy he certainly left his footprint in glasgows history

[@fyodor48alyosha67]

Anyone remember Copelawhill works ? That’s where they built and refurbished the trams, it went on to be the Transport museum then and until now The Tramway Theatre and arts centre I loved the trams when I was young, I went on to work for the “old corpy “ or rather Corporation transport , which became Strathclyde transport Then First bus . Worked there for forty years !!!! We used to get the tram from Kelvinbridge to Binghams pond . The “pond “ was halved in two when they built the petrol station on gt western rd then Jury’s hotel . Good times Oops another edit... many thanks for the upload The canal bridge bend is Bilsland drive The Old Tramcar vaults was a favourite watering hole, it was commonly known as a “wine shop” which was slang for a lower class place to enjoy a beverage.

[@theolerou7490]

This is fantastic and grateful you uploaded these trams. I'm in S. Africa and we also had them running between Johannesburg and Malvern East. In the year 1959 I was 10 years old and remember traveling from school to my grandmother by tram on Fridays. The ticket only cost me 3 pence which was equivalent to 2,5c when we switched over to the decimal system in 1961. Thank you for the video it made me think back many years!!!!!

[@tressteleg1]

😊👍

[@theolerou7490]

@@tressteleg1 I'm surprised you responded so promptly. I have roots in the UK, my late mom's maiden name was Dicks and her grandfather emigrated to S.A from Leeds. In 1970 I got married to a Scottish lady and her father got me interested in bagpipes. Such beautiful music coming from those instruments. Needless to say I fell in love again with this kind of music bc it gets into the blood. Those bands are fantastic to watch. Thank you for uploading these videos, I appreciate it immensely. Be blessed

[@tressteleg1]

All good. I try to reply to people promptly but I’m in Sydney at the moment and been busy chasing trams all day.

[@theolerou7490]

@@tressteleg1 Be blessed and safe.👍

[@tressteleg1]

Thanks. You too!

[@Joe_Peroni]

Back around 1960, when I was around 3 years old, we lived in Laidlaw Street. I can remember standing at the bus stop outside the Co-operative building with my mum, waiting for either a tram or a trolleybus! (Mum also worked as a conductress on the Glasgow buses.) As far as I'm concerned, Glasgow was far better back then!

[@tressteleg1]

😊👍 I was waiting for you to say whether a tram or trolley bus is what you caught that day. We are still waiting… While some cities may be better than they were 60 years ago, unfortunately that is not true everywhere.

[@Joe_Peroni]

@@tressteleg1 I've wracked my memory, & it was the TRAM! I recall seeing (while we were at the tram stop) trolleybuses zooming along across the road, in the opposite direction!

[@tressteleg1]

Well done! That’s something to be proud of. I did visit the Summerlee museum quite some years ago and i think it had a Glasgow tram, but if so it was not running. Otherwise the big tram museum at Critch in Derbyshire would have one or more but whether one is running for a ride when you visit would be another matter.

[@petermolloy6142]

@@tressteleg1 The museum is at Crich, with a long “i” sound, and no “t” in the spelling!!

[@tressteleg1]

@@petermolloy6142 OK.

[@spailpin1902]

I agree, this is a fantastic historical document.

[@tressteleg1]

👍

[@williamdrummond7687]

Cross Stobs is in Barrhead, the Cross Stob inn is still there on Grahamston road.

[@sheilagillan7380]

THIS was taken on my last year in Glasgow 1959 i moved to Australia, in 1960

[@tressteleg1]

I guess you liked it. It’s funny because I am also located in Australia. Roy let me set up my video camera while he played and narrated the movie.

[@davebarclay4429]

Absolutely wonderful. I was born in 1952 and grew up in Lanarkshire. When we went into Glasgow on the Central SMT bus the first sight of the city was always a pair of 29 trams (usually ex-Liverpool) at Broomhouse terminus which was directly outside Calderpark Zoo. Even as a child I remember the Cunarders being prone to rolling and the seats being very close together. The Coronations were much nicer to travel on. The only thing I would challenge in the commentary is the description of Airdrie as a "small town" - in 1959 the population would have been somewhere in the region of 28,000, around the size of modern Lichfield - but that's just a minor nitpick about a fantastic piece of Glasgow history.

[@tressteleg1]

I’m pleased that this video has brought these happy memories. It’s just a pity that Roy won’t know of your kind words.

[@abw48]

I was born in 1948, Alexandra Parade, between James Orr St and Wishart St and my bed was right at the window facing the street and so until aged 12 i went to sleep with sound of these Trams rolling by and when they took them away I had trouble getting to sleep. We moved along the Parade in 1960 to the top of Whitehill St. I left in 1966. But I will always belang tae Glesga, dear auld Glesga toon.

[@tressteleg1]

Aye, me Laddie 😊

[@MrPoupard]

7.41 is the junction of St Vincent St and Renfield St. The building with decorative pillars either side of the windows is exactly the same in 2018. Below the "St Vincent St" sign you can see the Malcolm Campbell sign over the fruit and vegetable shop which occupied that corner site for years.

[@tracyyy99]

This is fantastic !

[@tressteleg1]

Yes, Roy Hubble did a great job with his camera and narration.

[@stevedoubleu99B]

Brilliant, narration was great, I realise that you cut probably in order to stop projector noise, but I wouldn't have minded it. Oh for a time machine.......

[@tressteleg1]

When Roy did not speak for a while the projector noise increased somewhat automatically so I silenced the clip but no words were lost. Here and there a bad splice between scenes was removed but that was just a fraction of a second but otherwise nothing was cut out. Time machine - yes...

[@Alanvids]

Brilliant film. We took a ride on the Glasgow tram in Crich a few years ago

[@tressteleg1]

That’s about the closest you can get these days.

[@Alanvids]

@@tressteleg1 yes for sure. It gave me pleasure knowing my parents may have used the same tram. When we entered Crich museum, we waited at a tram stop and although they use various trams on their piece of track, that day it was the Glasgow tram. The guys had Glasgow corporation uniforms on too. Superb

[@peteacher52]

I was 11 years old in 1959 and was keenly interested in cars. Most of these are definite spottings but a few a bit doubtful. I now drive, as a hobby car, a 70 year old Jowett Javelin. I was/am always attracted to rail vehicles and note with interest, that some councils are now expressing the view that the willy-nilly removal of tram tracks and catenery may have been premature because (it is admitted) tramcars were a very efficient way of moving large numbers of commuters at rush hour! :-) Col, NZ Isetta bubble car Rover 75 Rover 90 Series 2 Humber Snipe Jowett Javelin 'Beetle back' Vanguard Standard 10 Vauxhall DX Victor Velox and probably Wyvern Anglias Prefects Zephyrs and probably Consuls A30s and A40s A40 Countryman Austin 8s, 10s and 16s A70 Hereford A55 Cambridge Farina Renault 750 Renault Dauphine Morris 8, Series E, Minor high light and low light, Oxford Jaguar Mk 5 Mk 2 Hillman Minx Peugeot 403 VW Singer SM Riley 1500

[@tressteleg1]

😊👍

[@AfterLife13]

Thank you 4 this.

[@tressteleg1]

😊👍

[@georgeskinner2199]

fantastic.. brought back a s**t-load of memories.. I'll need to share this with the grand-kids now.. good foresight to have done this deed.. I was from Cambridge street, (72) and there in 1956! remember Fusco's?? and how about Danny Dee(a)ny's the pub? Hard to believe so little views though.. get it out there guys..!! had a laugh at a comment about no sound on the film.. in those days if you even had a "brownie" it was high tec.. so the cine camera was yer i-phone 10 of the day.. and if you need to ask about a "brownie" you're definitely not older than 50, but maybe that's another video? great work Ron Hubble..

[@tressteleg1]

👍 it was a good video, and Roy’s narration brings it to life as well. Luckily the opportunity to record the film on my brand new video camera and recorder came up and it was done. It is a pity he left us in an accident about 30 years ago. I spoke to his widow only a few days ago. Anyway I hope the grandkids enjoy it also. I never had a brownie but had something no better.

[@streetcar6896]

Beautiful trams ! From Canada!

[@tressteleg1]

Streetcar68 😊👍

[@simongreenidge6454]

1959; Mr. Hubble certainly went the extra mile by using colour film stock. It makes the footage so much more valuable (and enjoyable)!

[@tressteleg1]

I think it was 1958 that Roy started with movie film. 1965 for me, but years later so many fans were still taking black and white photos. What do people want to watch today 😊?

[@bobsstuff9077]

Very enjoyable, i remember these well.

[@tressteleg1]

😊👍

[@joeturner1597]

I remember when the tram museum was moved to Kelvin Hall. I actually took my kids to the old one at Pollkshields. That must have been 30 odd years ago. It has been moved again and the street scene is no more. The car halls have gone too. The cars are on shelves apparently. My grandchildren say it is crap.

[@tressteleg1]

+Joe Turner Unfortunately museums have been taken over by the ‘Trendy’ types who think a ‘virtual’ museum is better than one with real exhibits, and a pretty layout with plenty of space around everything is great, even if half the former exhibits are now in storage. Wonderful 😡

[@XboxKenny1992]

I am 26 and experienced both the kelvinhall museum and the new one, the new one is terrible, typical of modernist architecture, it has no life to it at all the way old the street scene did at kelvinhall

[@elizabethstruthers5820]

Yes it’s rubbish. It was best in the old tram depot Albion Street I think?

[@tressteleg1]

I commiserate with you on that, not that I am close enough to ever see it.

[@johnjephcote7636]

That's a shame-I did not know that. I also had a shock when most of the London trams were moved out of the Covent Garden museum to their 'store'-is there a conspiracy against the memory of trams operating?

[@kyotocoversjimanderson782]

Fascinating. I was 4 years old then, and by the time I was able to travel to Maryhill on my own in the 1960s the trams had been replaced by trolleybuses, which of course also eventually disappeared.

[@tressteleg1]

They call it progress but it is really big steps backwards.

[@kyotocoversjimanderson782]

@@tressteleg1 No disagreement from me there! Thanks for the reply (which I didn't expect), and for the great upload.

[@tressteleg1]

😊👍

[@raymaidstone8811]

:-) an awesome video to watch :-)

[@mikesharples6086]

Fascinating to watch especially that standard four wheeler going for it

[@tressteleg1]

As a former Melbourne tram driver, we knew just how fast we could push our trams without becoming too dangerous. A good adrenaline rush at times! No doubt this Glasgow driver was the same!

[@mikesharples6086]

@@tressteleg1 yes it must off been a rush to push a tram like that

[@tressteleg1]

Yes it was. Dashing down a hill late at night on deserted roads, but knowing that if somebody reversed out of their yard, it would be like a cricket bat hitting a golf ball! One night coming in from West Preston before St George’s Rd was relaid, a passenger told me he could hear me coming (clickety clacks) long before he could see me. We all had a good laugh.

[@bugie8421]

So beautiful

[@larrywinning5183]

I was 13 at that time and used to take the Tram to school. Fantastic wee film Thank you for sharing.

[@FDCLDN]

Back when people were free

[@tressteleg1]

Wrapping people up in Cottonwool etc seems to be happening more and more these days. The world is run by idiots.

[@margodoyle3557]

I was 12 when the trams stopped in Glasgow spent a great deal of time travelling on the Nos 9 to Auchenshuggle and 18 to Argyll Street

[@tressteleg1]

It’s good that you have those memories and presumably Roy’s movie has helped remind you of those days.

[@macjackb]

A fantastic film. As a 60-year-old Glaswegian I wonder about how we just shrugged our shoulders and gave up on something that was permanent, static, there for us.

[@tressteleg1]

George Wilson Politicians fooled the public into believing, whether they believed it themselves or not, that buses were modern, faster, cheaper, more flexible etc etc etc. Now we know they were wrong.

[@keithconnock6541]

Service 16 did not cease in 1959, it was merely cut back from Springburn to Keppochill Road on 6th September. The rest of the service to Scotstoun ceased on 11/3/1961.

[@TheHeraclion]

I found that quite fascinating I would have been 5 then and vaguely remember them

[@tressteleg1]

😊👍

[@geecars6263]

I always wondered why there was such a large gap between the road and the fence along the side of Bellahouston Park, now I know!

[@richardmurphy4520]

Great stuff Roy, my dad would take me on the trolley buses back in 1966/7 into town to buy toys and seafood on the London road ( The Barras Market). Very happy days indeed. Did anyone ever tell you that you have an East End of London accent Roy ?, I lived there for many years. In fact you sound just like the late Charlie Kray. How would I know that. Keep up the good work.

[@tressteleg1]

I’m sure that Roy would be pleased that you liked his narrated movie film. Unfortunately he was killed in a motor vehicle collision 20 or so years ago, thanks to a poor decision by the driver of the car he was in. He may have grown up in Catford, can’t be sure of that.

[@richardmurphy4520]

Thanks for the info. Yes Catford is in London SE13 postcode. Still a lot of Cockneys moved there after the Blitz and up to Burnt Oak and Hendon in NW London, so perhaps Roys family was amongst them. God bless him, his knowledge and enthusiasm for the subject is very prevalent in his stoic voice. He had the makings of a great orator / broadcaster. @@tressteleg1

[@tressteleg1]

@richardmurphy4520 in 1975 I stayed in a Catford house for several weeks visiting London sights daily 1975. But I was not sure of its location in relation to central London. Roy did tell me his family history but I forget. Sometime after the war Roy and wife moved to Harlow (New Town). As for his public speaking, just try getting him away from a lonely microphone! With over 100,000 views, Glasgow is amongst the very best of my videos.

[@richardmurphy4520]

@@tressteleg1 Yes Harlow is in Essex, another area where many bombed out East Ender's wound up in the late 40,s early 50,s.

[@tressteleg1]

@richardmurphy4520 Yes, I stayed there a couple of times. I was pissed off that ‘Exact fare please’ on the buses they meant Exact fare ONLY so had to walk into town!

[@robs4988]

I seem to remember as a young boy seeing two trams joined together going down the street.

[@tressteleg1]

Maybe one was broken down, maybe it was the easy way to get 2 trams from one depot to another. Or something else.

[@-GlasgowsLastTram]

Glasgows famous Coronation trams only four left in the world. One at the Riverside museum Glasgow (static exhibit), and one at the national tramway museum Crich, not running at present. One somewhere in America. The fourth one is under extensive rebuild at Summerlee Museum Coatbridge and will run on our local track.

[@tressteleg1]

Thanks for that. I suppose it’s a bit surprising that as many as four have survived. I did visit Summerlee around 1991 trust that the museum and tramway there are flourishing.

[@-GlasgowsLastTram]

@@tressteleg1 museum and tramway are still going strong, there are plans afoot to extend museum and tramway in the near future.

[@tressteleg1]

That is good to hear, especially the plans to extend the track. I think it a great pity that vandals got to the little Brussels tram, a 9000 I think. From memory wheels, motors etc were used under one of your local tram bodies, so all was not lost.

[@martiboy367]

I don’t have any recollection of the auld cors as they were known, but recall my mother telling me she worked on them, the only thing I can add having been born and bred in Glasgow, was the number 16 route that was extended through the years from scotstoun to auchinairn.

[@tressteleg1]

😊

[@DandamanV]

I can't understand why any city in the world that had trams at this time would have remotely considered removing them. So clean, elegant, and effective!

[@tressteleg1]

Unfortunately from the 1940s and even earlier in some places, the ‘modern trend’ was to replace noisy old trams which clogged up the middle of the road with ‘modern flexible buses’. And after big places like London, New York and Paris had already made the change, smaller places wanted to ‘catch up.’ Bit by bit many cities are now waking up to the mistake, but not Glasgow.

[@Gordon669]

1960's " i have a good idea, lets rip all these tracks up" 2020's "Err hang on!!!!!". Great film. my parent always spoke of "jumping on a CORR" .

[@tressteleg1]

Kukulkans Ruff Unfortunately ripping out trams and replacing them with ‘modern flexible buses’ was the fashion in nearly all the English speaking world from the 1950s or earlier until they were nearly all gone.

[@petergambier]

Loved the tram names, Coronation, Cunada, ex-Liverpool Green Goddess and Kilmarnock Bogey. There should be electric trams in every city and town, less pollution, noise and cost being just 3 of the many benefits for a town or city. In Munich the single deck trams ran down the middle of the road and had 2 or 3 carriages linked together. During rush-hour the public transport tended to run better than the traffic unless a car parked in the wrong place blocked the route. Cycling a bike can be a hazard if your not careful and I've gone arse over tit onto my face a few times and problems for pedestrians in high heels. The German trams also relied on people's honesty buying tickets from newsagents and Imbiss's or an annual pass. You stamped your own ticket in a machine that was at most stops or on every bus and tram. Sometimes the company would send small teams of 2 or 3 undercover ticket inspectors to catch those without a ticket, it was a fine of about £20 if you got caught cheating. Roy's dodgy footage out of the inspection hatch could have been done better and for longer because I've never seen such a view and was too short. He also found it surprising that there were lots of lady tram drivers and I chuckled when he said 'That's a Coronation driven by a big girl.'

[@tressteleg1]

I’m pleased that you liked it 😊

[@weerobot]

Awesome...Bring em back..

[@tressteleg1]

If trams ever return to Glasgow, they will look nothing like the old ones.

[@MrBenjenko]

Great video - thank you! I'm currently colouring a photo circa 1950s with a tram and PoliceBox, I had thought the photo was taken in Edinburgh but it may be Glasgow, do you know if Edinburgh had the same trams in the same colour scheme as Glasgow?

[@tressteleg1]

Have fun with that! Without doubt, the Glasgow colours were unique. If I’m not mistaken, Edinburgh trams were mostly dark brown. Maybe there are videos of them on KZbin, just to check.

[@petermolloy6142]

The two cities' trams were not the same colour, by any means. Glasgow’s trams were green, white and orange (any Glaswegian will explain the significance of those colours!) whereas Edinburgh’s cars were a deep purple. And all Edinburgh’s cars were four-wheelers, whereas Glasgow had 4-wheel and bogie cars. And didn’t Edinburgh stay loyal to the trolley-pole? I think so!

[@transferdatathreewally24]

Good film. Well done

[@tressteleg1]

Roy Hubble deserves all the credit. Such a pity he is no longer with us.

[@transferdatathreewally24]

tressteleg1 I'm so sorry to hear that. I wish him a safe and peaceful journey onwards , Iain w in Sheffield

[@tressteleg1]

He was a passenger in a car about 20 years ago. But you can hear him again in his short Sheffield Trams video on my channel.

[@johnhealy9231]

Born jan 1957 just up from Glasgow cross,Sydney st remember the trams well and trolly bus the over head line would spark at intersections as they went past

[@tressteleg1]

John Healy 😊👍

[@itsablack1]

I use to live in Marryhill until 1972 at 7 years old , the trams were way before my time unfortunately .. They should have kept trams running , the pollution from the buses in the city centre was really bad for a very long time ..

[@tressteleg1]

I guess the video shows you some of what you missed. Unfortunately from the 1930s, replacing trams with buses was considered the modern thing to do, at least in nearly all of the English speaking world.

[@MegaLochgelly]

Glasgow looks as good as cities like Prague and Paris in this. Such a terrible town planning to take these away.

[@tressteleg1]

Mega Loch gelle Unfortunately in the English speaking world from before the world war, it became fashionable to replace trams with ‘modern diesel buses’. What a mistake that proved to be.

[@charcolew]

Auchenshuggle - pronounced Och - N - shoo - gl, with the stress on the "shoo".