Glasgow 1987

[@irnbrubhoy]

Filmed in 1987 using music from the1960’s, a camera from the ‘70’s and a narrator from the Battle of Culloden.

[@jamiemcintosh305]

Fuckin tremendous comment m8 spot on

[@gingerindian1141]

hahaha funny

[@lenvine]

I wasn't aware I was from the Battle of Culloden !!!!

[@allosaurusfragilis7782]

Lool. Spat my tea!

[@MaliciousChickenAgenda]

Lmao this made me lay a wee bukka cranky pullet egg 😂😝🐓

[@MrPoupard]

Didn't realise Greggs had been in George Square for so long.

[@BuckfastConsumer]

My thoughts aswell.lol

[@seldom_seen_kid]

Greggs - making fat lassies happy for over 30 years.

[@ajayjackson7727]

That Greggs wasn't on George Square, it was on another street further down

[@madhaggis1]

i remember it being there in 1982

[@whangie1]

A J Your correct. It was on Queen Street just down from one of the corners of George Square I’m sure it was.

[@gedmcgaffin1255]

I used to walk these streets . Ah the fun me and my pals had back then will never be forgotten. Thanks.

[@euanscotland]

What streets you walking these days cowboy.?

[@1gerard47]

Got my first watch aged 12,my dad always went the the same watchmaker at the barras it was a timex, great memories, I'm now 61 living in SA.

[@hilarityensues]

Fascinating. We can't go back but with videos like this we can always visit.

[@johnjoe993]

This is facntastic Len, I was born in Glasgow in 1987 and it's incredible to see what my beloved city looked like in the lats 80's.

[@sha.37]

Awwct I was 17, we go tay the barras on Sundays for years me and mammy & Daddy good auld days that you can't get back but memories brilliant thanks.

[@alistairshaw3206]

Brilliant video, brought back memories. Loved seeing the old Leyland Atlanteans, the corpy buses, even a single decker conversion! Maybe because I'm a Coach driver but used to drive similar vehicles and love classic vehicles of all types.

[@keef71]

they single-decker Leyland Atlanteans were on the number 98, Queen St.-Central shuttle. Previously (before Strathclyde orange) there were even-smaller Seddons. Proper buses but mini-bus sized!

[@davechristopheringram6452]

man after my own heart

[@mr.giggles2188]

I was 14 then and I recognize most of the faces at the barras. Brings back both good and bad memories.

[@stephenmcghee7408]

Great video. I live in the US now, miss Glasgow when it looked like this. Remember the Glasgow's miles better logo for the garden festival.

[@lifelong5425]

Canada since 78...Glasgow, never leaves me...

[@alzyerpal-TV]

Good old Len, I knew him well. He passed away in Canada last year. RIP

[@patricksmodels]

Sad to hear this.😢

[@Vinesy68]

Ah Glasgow the first time I went was in 1991 and I loved it, the sights, the sounds the people! So friendly and down to earth. I laughed for days.

[@robertmcmillan3638]

Glasgow in the mid 90's to early 2000's was probably the best.

[@akyja1714]

Good old days. Perhaps the best days

[@stuartcollie2270]

Great seeing the barras in this video. I was 13 in 1987 and used to head up every Saturday morning with my mates to buy knocked off computer games. Best of days.

[@biggdogg99848]

Same m8 we used tae dog school in a amusements that was just round fae argyll street up fae were argos is now canny mind the name ae it good times

[@172Break]

I remember Microsoft got the Barras raided a few times for pirate software. One time the MS Software was on sale in the Barras before Microsoft had released it in the UK!

[@malcolmjcullen]

I was in the Tolbooth bar last weekend. It hasn't changed a bit!

[@Elliott15]

RIP Len thanks for this wonderful archive I had the pleasure of conversing with you over Facebook many times your loss is felt profoundly.

[@matthewsmith-rm6qc]

Little did you know, you were preserving a bit of history.

[@craigross341]

I graduated from Glasgow Uni in 1987. Four Bernard Mathews Turkey Burgers were 89p. A Maharani boil in the bag curry was about 79p. We used no heating whatsoever for three years in our frozen hovel in Kersland Street. Ah, we were poor, but we were miserable.

[@robertmcmillan3638]

And to boot, your University degree is probably worthless. Or are you one of the successful stories?

[@craigross341]

@@robertmcmillan3638 Glasgow Uni degrees in the 1980s weren't worthless. About 5% of the population went to uni. Guys I know took ten years to get one. Some departments had zero Firsts year after year. Now some of them hand out 40% Firsts. Trying to acquire some understanding of anything, with nothing to help you but unreadable books and articles, in a system where people were perfectly happy to fail you and nobody cared if you were upset, was all quite something.

[@robertmcmillan3638]

@@craigross341 Back in the 70's and 80"s they weren't worthless of course but they are worthless now as almost everyone has them who's under 40, with more graduates being added each year to the low paid workforce, call centres etc to compete with. If you've been working in your studied sector though since the 80's or 90's then that experience is worth more than any degree would be.

[@craigross341]

@@robertmcmillan3638 Yes, but if the qualification signalled a stable ability in the 80s when it was awarded then I might have a real ability now not possessed by someone who'd had one doled out later. Others might recognise that. Seeing this is the kind of thing they taught me, or - perhaps - was an ability I had to have to get in. That's another distinction the class of '87 quickly and easily draws.😄

[@missy3429]

@@craigross341 not what you know but who you know!

[@martinalexander651]

Thanks for this Len I was born in 1986 cool to see what it was like back then.

[@truthseeker1623]

Great to see the 80s my era seems like yesterday as Glasgow never grows old to me fab to see . thanks

[@rezhead]

Great to see people interacting with the camera rather than being hostile as is now quite common these days. The difference in The Barras from then to now is very sad.

[@paullacey2999]

I went to the Barras recently and it broke my heart...

[@Steampunksaly]

Oh my goodness, I’m almost 60 now and it seems no time ago when those cars haircuts and clothes were the height of fashion…..I’m sooooo old!!!!

[@eleanorsopwith9806]

❤😂it’s great though! Glasgow in the eighties. Loved it!

[@zxz1]

Visited Glasgow in 87 and thought it was a lovely city ,some grand buildings

[@ajayjackson7727]

Great video!! Good to see Glasgow in better days..

[@Alanvids]

Good old film. Thanks for sharing

[@fionamcdonald8472]

Great video, thanks for sharing. I feel very old though now!

[@GlasgowGallus]

Great wee film buddy...thank you...

[@lenvine]

Glad you liked it, Glasgow Gallus.

[@landyjock977]

Superb I remember the onion chopper guy and we bought one off him

[@voiletwhitehorse]

Been to Glasgow once,really loved it,the people were great and helpful

[@chrisgemmell2742]

Not 1 person on their phone lol

[@brianmchugh8419]

I was 15 in 1997... about same age of the kids in George Sq. Lived in EK, but started working in Glasgow in 1990. I remember much of this. Great video. ☺

[@robertmcmillan3638]

Great times.

[@stephenmcconnell1000]

Being 15 in 1997 would make you around 8 in 1990.

[@alanwhite7127]

Sprog

[@rickster101]

Ahh Glasgow fantastic city fantastic people I can remember going to the barras with my parents 70s to early 80s some characters there always selling wheeling and dealing some good bargains to I still visit Glasgow when I can love going there 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👏

[@T1tusCr0w]

I could have been one of the wee boys at the start. I was 12 that year. I would go into Glasgow every month to buy books. Sometimes I would go in with my Ma and we would have our dinner in a hotel called Stakies. Good days!

[@stuartleggat7176]

Excellent wee video of bygone Glasgow...unlike the usual filming, he lingers at each place giving the viewer time to soak in the details, instead of the usual 5 seconds...wish he'd filmed the old and very distinguished looking guy at the barras who used to sell the jewellery/watches...the camera was just a few feet away from his stall, but never turned towards it...

[@lenvine]

Thank you for those kind words. As a kid I lived at Abbotsford Place, Gorbals, and when I went to visit the area in 87, looked like a bomb had hit the place. There was nothing left except for my old Abbotsford School. I live in Canada, and often like to go back to dear old Glesga to see my sister and her family. That film was one of the many film to video transfers I do as a business. It's all wonderful nostalgia.

[@rossjl]

Brilliant Brings back a lot of memories.

[@andrewdavidloch360]

I really enjoyed watching this... I used to work down the Barras then... I saw very familiar faces.

[@ajayjackson7727]

Yep but Peter Peden the curtain man was missing

[@alisonlee3314]

Three great lads at the beginning. I wonder where they are now

[@johnnymcknight2330]

Boy two is currently going through the transition and can be seen regularly, dressed in heels and a mini skirt feeding the Glasgow starlings.

[@neilcampbell8499]

Boy1- jail, boy2- on the herion; then died, boy3-killed a cunt then killed himself( statistically speakin ;) )

[@iangalbraith1993]

Sweet wee film

[@stephenmcgonigle3238]

amazing video. Thanks

[@charliemctruth]

Govanhill....wonderfully diverse.

[@raibeartthehairypict4696]

Brilliant year for me 1987. Good seeing it on film. Wee guy with the doo in the square? 😂

[@stevenholt458]

Not a mobile phone in sight. How refreshing.

[@phillipecook3227]

They're coming. Just over the horizon ...

[@robertmcmillan3638]

@@phillipecook3227 It was about another 12 years until mobile phones became a thing for the average person in Glasgow.

[@stevenholt458]

Robert McMillan things were so much easier back then. How times have changed.

[@stevebinning977]

They existed then but we're enormous, basic and very, very expensive.

[@stevebinning977]

Were not we're. Bloody autocorrection again.

[@ronnie_gaffney9087]

Wow! Didny know Rab C selt wummins claes up the Barras 😂

[@DjSciFly]

Great footage of The Barras.

[@UnauthorisedService]

bloody well done . Nice document !

[@charliemedia5111]

Let Glasgow Flourish

[@katemartin3352]

Great wee trip dowm memory lane love to see the fish van come back again

[@detectingadventuresscotlan6035]

I'm in greenock. Great vid pal 👍

[@cazmac666]

A lovely specimen of pigeon , it’s been bitten by a rat 😂😂 those wee guys are brilliant 😂😂😂

[@lenvine]

Aren't kids funny !

[@mikeyteee95]

They'll be over 40 year old now

[@vinny6967]

Fuxking loved old school barras

[@genghis26]

Is that kid a pigeon whisperer? Or did he bring some broken pigeon into the city to see how the others live?

[@Venom8419]

1:40 check the wee ginger guy and his pigeon in the background. Hahahahahaha brilliant.

[@weescott2k10]

Danny Ferguson what for?

[@unconvincingrebel]

filmed with a 1960s camera by the looks of it

[@lenvine]

+Kcuf elgoog You're right, Super 8 movie film came out in 1965, and the camera was made around 1970. Kodak are actually reviving Super 8 in the fall of 2016.

[@atombomb31458]

+Len Vine Kodak is still there? Its shrunk about 99%

[@shugthehornyhaggis]

Kcuf elgoog just as well since cameras of the 80s where in a transitional period and where of shit quality

[@bobdylanger2710]

@@lenvine looks like the same camera used in the bob dylan documentary eat the document.

[@1gerard47]

A sony

[@jkm8741]

As a young teenager who visited Glasgow frequently, it looks like an ancient time, to anyone watching this 🤣🤣🤣🤣..I feel as if I'm.watching a film from decades before 1987. Where does time go!!! It was really coming into its own. With City of Culture and the Garden Festival. It was exciting times for the city. Unfortunately its lost its appeal. Its not the city it was.

[@robertmcintyre4653]

+ GAVIN IRVIN AM AFRAID UR WRONG ABOUT THE QUALITY OF VIDEO CAMERAS IN 1987, AS I HAD A VERY GOOD SONY CAMCORDER THEN WITH SMALL TAPES, I HAVE JUST GOT THEM PUT ONTO DVD'S RECENTLY WHICH R OF GREAT QUALITY OF MY SON AS A BABY, HE WAS BORN IN 1986 BRILLIANT TO LOOK BACK AT MY SON AS A 1/2YR OLD VERY HAPPY MEMORIES FOR MY FAMILY, I HAVE WATCHED THAT DVD SO MANY TIMES , IT'S LIKE GOING BACK IN TIME SUCH CLEAR FOOTAGE ALSO OF THE DUCK BAY MARINA AT LOCH LOMAND LOL

[@lenvine]

Thank you, The Luz. I'd like to see your music video.

[@sharinhamilton3712]

That was a nice we wander down memory lane.

[@harryjockstrap8699]

you look and see the shops .most are gone now ,

[@oddities-whatnot]

Ah, Greggs. Back in 1987 a packet of cheese salad sandwiches from there was about 48p !

[@peterbrown6434]

Brilliant!!

[@douglasfraser8960]

I belong to Glasgow xo

[@Jason-kc4yr]

I worked as a Night Porter in THE COPTHORNE HOTEL(George Square) in 1987 lol

[@eccIefechan]

I've never seen tame pigeons that allow you to handle them on George Square!

[@robertmcmillan3638]

If pigeons recognise you as friendly over time , they'll probably come right on to you if you sit still enough.

[@williamf4544]

Its no from George square - its a pigeon that couldnae fly because it got bitten by a rat and the boy just brought it into the city center for a day out

[@jimbo170158]

to len, great little movie I you managed to capture my mates dad's fish caravan on which you and I knew as Abbotsford place once, l lived in pollockshaws rd , then moved down south in the late 70s

[@jimbo170158]

That's right len, have you checked out abandoned Scotland, Cumberland st railway station, recommended, take care mate enjoy

[@kenandchr]

The boy with the pigeon is hilarious 🤣

[@paulfrewzy7374]

A was born in 79 an Am a proud memory holder from aww these day's, mist probably felt a touch of depression way back n these era's but hey wit aboot noo ! ffs, most them folks in this ur Probably well deed now an to me that makes it aww that wee bit more magical and almost mitastical, Long Live Glasgow wee Are the ppl

[@gordonstenson2708]

Cracking footage of the time and a turning point of history.Modern Glasgow is still fascinating but has entered another chapter in terms of changing population.

[@scottconnor8867]

It’s like a different city to the one I grew up in. It’s sad to see the decline of the city centre.

[@dodiesdiary]

The "magnificent building" you mentioned in George Square? Well, it became what it is because the plans orginally were drawn up to be for the new Co-operative Headquarters. Those plans however were rejected by the powers that be in the Cooperative. Instead, they chose the blue prints put forward by another architectural company for a building that be would become the Cooperative Headquarters. Many decades later, The Co-op Headquaters building was eventually sold, and it's outstanding features were incorporated into the private residential apartments one can see to this day.

[@mikeyteee95]

Really? I'd always heard that it was the other way around and that the Co-op building was a rejected design for the city chambers

[@mrt9031]

Best city in the world..

[@shanabeg8359]

True ... 👌

[@raibeartthehairypict4696]

My home in North Glasgow for the past 40 yrs, years has been overrun by a thousands of economic migrants, halal butchers and African North & sub Saharan shops. Multiculturalism has ruined a once great community. Thanks Nikola.

[@MaliciousChickenAgenda]

I remember going into town in the 80s with my mum when I was little on they big orange corpy buses (I was born in 1979). I fuckin hated them lol loved it once I was in the city centre though coz I got to chase all the crabbit pigeons 😂 and then we'd go for a wimpy burger. My dads an antique dealer and he used to take me down the Barra's and the Brigit. I was always amazed by how many people he knew

[@paullacey2999]

I remember the buses in green,white and yellow too!And you had a Transcard to travel on them.....

[@thewaspsanklessmith]

Buses wae leatherette seats that yer legs stuck tae whilst wearing shorts in the summer. 78 ah wis born, I remember the Lite Bite doon St Enoch wis ah treat fir a wee pup like masel.

[@rangers16907]

Mount of antiques just sitting there

[@stuggypren744]

Cheers for posting this.

[@Cypher791]

ahh 1987.. when i was Minus 4

[@boboayame2065]

Imagine the price of Greggs then, it was probably 15p for a sausage roll

[@bednar23]

Wow, 2 years before a was born.

[@dct1]

Time warp! Interesting video.

[@lenvine]

Glad you liked it. I only wish I had video of the Gorbals before they demolished it, particularly of our street, Abbotsford Place.

[@johncarlin8755]

Sports socks two pair fur a pun

[@segamegadrive3903]

Hawl, edgy.

[@kegalormoon]

Mega Kunt hawl games a boagie

[@crafter170]

School dinner caramel slices for two bob.

[@nottheguardian7955]

Get yer lighters.

[@brian81]

glesgaz finest!!!😲

[@mimilangelier4425]

4:38 that Greggs is STILL there

[@Monty-or9sb]

the cam makes it seem way more back in time than it was but it seemed futuristic to 4 year old me in 86 - the first time i went on an underground train. Having said that, 80s britain was grim as fuck in general.

[@rymacreeks2k07]

the camera looks 20 years older than that, the narrator dude looks like he's in a living room (and wardrobe LOL) from 1977, and Glasgow looks like Gotham in the 2019 Joker film

[@SpookyElectric319]

This is the Glasgow I remember!

[@robertmcmillan3638]

This is the ONLY Glasgow you would want to remember. 90's was the best though imo, right up to about 2003 (ish).

[@colinneale4182]

Too many asylum reekers pollution our great city 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@robertmcmillan3638]

@jemimallah Who mentioned "crime"? But now that YOU have brought it up, do you know that Govanhill is an absolute "hell hole" that resembles something from a third world Country which is unacceptable considering that it's Nicola Sturgeon's constituency. R@pes are happening more. Junkies are fighting with the immigrants for the best begging spots in the City centre also. People are getting in to real trouble with landlords because of this, that and the other. At least back in the 90's to early 2000's, people had hope for a brighter future and what was there in Glasgow at the time was good enough. Don't know where you've been?

[@robertmcmillan3638]

@jemimallah Here's a link among many if you don't believe me www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/09/24/snps-justice-policies-attacked-violence-sex-crimes-surge-scotland/amp/

[@robertmcmillan3638]

@jemimallah No reply? Thought so. That shut you up, didn't it.

[@neilweegee6399]

Good wee video , cheers.

[@yellowfolder]

I've always liked George's Square.

[@paulfrewzy7374]

Also it's magical

[@robertmcmillan3638]

You wouldn't like it as much now. For a time it was called red square when the Council had taken the grass away. But it should be called red square now because it's full of leftwing socialists doing protests for this, that and the other every other weekend.

[@09weenic]

Robert McMillan oh aye they like to call it freedom square - they can GTF Good video 👍

[@dopesensi]

Robert McMillan don't forget it gets sold to the Banks a few times a year for wherever scheme they are going to rob you for . The army and police like to have a "public awareness day" there too.. You ll also notice the homeless get shifted from there pronto.... Freedom? A thing of the past- cheers Nichola.

[@robertmcmillan3638]

@@dopesensi The SNP has RUINED Scotland and the real kick to the head is they walk away with a almost clean sweep of 50 +plus seats at election times. The numbers don't add up? Consider how many people are in Scotland then consider how many are eligible to vote?, Then how many people ACTUALLY bother to vote then split the votes up between all the political parties. So where does the SNP get all this so called support from? Not that many people ARE actually voting for them but the SNP keeps making claims that they "speak for the people of Scotland". NO They bl0000dy well DON'T! And they certainly DON'T have the right to dictate to the rest of the UK. Nigel farrage got more votes down south than Scotland has eligible voters in the first place by but the reality denier's in the SNP think that they can stop Brexit, spend like crazy with NO results, have Hospitals fall apart, roads and infrastructure fall apart, immigrants flood in, no prospects for the advancement of society and they still think they are "winning" Why has Nicola Sturgeon, Alex salmond, the SNP and that Green party "harvie" guy who backs them up not been investigated?

[@GATSU1979]

I was 9.....god its brings back so many memories being down the barras

[@MrMaharg65]

When George Square still had it’s trees & green areas. Ripped out now.

[@rodchamp7510]

Glasgow garden festival following year in 88

[@albaproductions9602]

Spent so many great times in this city, especially govan, was down recently and everything has gone or changed

[@paullacey2999]

Govan so different now!Remember the Govan fair with all the fancy floats....And the shows in Elder Park.....

[@missy3429]

Full of criminals. Glasgow not a safe place.

[@randomeditss257]

I didn't know Greggs was in George Square for That long.

[@delores6458]

When the barras were Good!

[@badgerbhoy9534]

In 1987 we would have been watching a film from 1945...does that make u feel old? Oh and is that Gordon Strachan at 2.30?

[@neilcampbell8499]

Speak for yourself bud. 1987 i was watchin robocop n adventures in babysittin or watever the azad had new. U mean in comparison to the time difference between now n 87- 87-45? You're still wrong.

[@joepaccrakurii1227]

At the very beginning I thought he was going to announce something very different 😆

[@woooster71]

What was the camera used? It feels like 1977 rather than 1987? Interesting stuff.. but I still feel it wasn’t long ago. I must be getting old 🫤

[@simonjones7727]

"Tell us about yer pigeon" "Well, it's been bitten by a rat, see" Welcome to Glasgow, eh?

[@jamesaitken744]

what has hapend to the barras the last time i was there just before chirsmas it was like a shell off its self . in the 90s i uest to go every sunday all the way from edinburgh.

[@alisonlee3314]

James Aitken. I strongly suspect the City Council is allowing it to run down. That way, they can say it's unprofitable, and will sell the land on for new student accommodation. It's pretty depressing now, fake DVDs and dodgy tobacco 🙁

[@brianmchugh8419]

Alison Lee The quicker the Barras is gone the better. The only bit to stay should be the Ballroom.

[@euanscotland]

All the way from Edinburgh? ?? That's mighty far. I hope you packed a sandwich.

[@mohsin0778]

the indoor market should still be open, me used to sell jumpers back in the 80s and 90s!

[@wboyle9721]

People back then were more focused not a mobile phone in sight lol

[@lesallan3181]

The barras! Ah remember paddies market you could get a dead rat for a halfpenny' back in the day wae a bowl of peas and pish

[@neilkendall5499]

Wow this makes the 80s look so old fashioned 😞

[@gsf5882]

Look you can drive (up to 30mph) and park in the City Centre! Result = lots of retail. Today the retail is all closing down because of traffic restrictions.

[@euanscotland]

Nostalgia...... its just not what it used to be..