Port Glasgow to Greenock

[@kenweir7825]

Ach, a lovely video, many thanks for making and posting this. Makes me miss home.

[@EdExploresScotland]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@pushbuttonhorse]

Thank you for posting. Top notch quality. Really enjoyed this more than I can put into words. Born in Greenock 1963 lived in Port Glasgow till the age of 5, then moved to Canada. Went back to visit family in 1976. Very nice to see how it looks in 2018. Makes me want to came back for another visit. Thanks again, great video!

[@EdExploresScotland]

Many thanks Robert. It was a lovely misty day, one I'll always remember.

[@elizabethpeters6961]

miss this great wee toon

[@Griffinnn89]

Brilliant video, wife and i thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you for uploading.

[@EdExploresScotland]

Many thanks. It was a lovely misty start to the day.

[@stephenlemon8270]

Excellent video Ed I work down greenock regularly some views are stunning and that shopping centre is a total mess

[@EdExploresScotland]

Cheers. 👍

[@FeedbackPete]

Very well made video featuring my home town of Port Glasgow

[@vickymcbride4028]

Is this a nice place to live?

[@FeedbackPete]

@@vickymcbride4028 Hi I do like living here it's were I was born. It's got good and bad points. It could be one of the more deprived areas of Scotland but the scenery is good. Also location wise it has great links to Glasgow. You can be in the city centre in as little as 25 to 30 mins.

[@lavender1187]

@@FeedbackPete That’s so true! I’m from Port Glasgow too and it’s like everywhere else good and bad points.

[@FeedbackPete]

@@lavender1187 Hi I'm a little biased maybe because like you say everywhere has it's faults but the Port will always be my home. I'm Port born and bred. There has been lots of great improvements to the town centre with the retail park. And new housing is popping up everywhere. The beauty of the town is your surrounded by countryside side so can easily go nice walks where it's quiet. Yet with Greenock nearby your not in the middle of nowhere you do have amenities and by car can easily get to Loch Lomond etc so your getting the best of both worlds.

[@lavender1187]

@@FeedbackPete Hello 😊, That’s very true I was born and raised here lived in Port Glasgow for 35 years now. The retail park made such a huge difference to the town. The Oak Mall is absolutely deserted every time you go through it. You’re so right about the scenery. Especially down at the castle.

[@McGrory69]

Growing up in Greenock in the 70s you coudnt see the Clyde from Greenock Town Centre to Port Glasgow Town Centre as the entire front was taken up by docks & shipyards with engineering works to the other side. A very thriving town also having Sugar refineries, computer factories & other large businesses. Sadly half the population has left after the town was killed off.

[@donaldmerriweather8718]

Looks like a beautiful country

[@sarge6870]

It is, no doubt as well as the people!

[@robertknowles2699]

Perhaps I live in the 19th century , yet steam & oil might give way to the builders of real Sail again. Most of non-business books are upstairs in Cleveland, Ohio on a clean Lake. Thank you , Ed for outdoor splendid photos. I wonder where Reid, Henderson ( Joe & Bob formed me keel plate Flats of Cleveland in Farasey , Iron Court Street ) , MacMillan, Scott, Kelvinaugh with A. Stephen buildings are. I like to row and swim and sail; lines, battens, scrieve board, ... .

[@roddyk05]

You mention the Comet as a very old boat that was built in Port Glasgow, well that CalMac’r in the background is rapidly becoming a very old boat that was built in Port Glasgow too - nearly a year on and its still sitting there unfinished 😳

[@EdExploresScotland]

Good things are worth waiting for.

[@williamclegg9105]

Still sitting there lol

[@jimph1]

Nice video Eddie, well edited and put together

[@EdExploresScotland]

Many thanks. I'm using Google's Movie Maker; basic stuff but it does the business.

[@bertiet9504]

8:50 just been sent this by a friend. Fame st last I'll be signing autographs later. Looks bloody cold that day

[@EdExploresScotland]

You know, it was just a lovely morning. A little cold, but with a rolling mist that probably made the video.

[@ronniegibbons1907]

Enjoyed the film

[@EdExploresScotland]

Many thanks. I think the low ground mist added to it.

[@ronniegibbons1907]

It did

[@loveexploringscotland]

Heritage Inverclyde Coastal Trail certainly is a tongue twister! It's nice to see Scotland's coastal towns. I'm with you on the modern mixed with the old. It would have been better to keep them separate as old town and new town. Great video and commentary!

[@EdExploresScotland]

Many thanks. In some situations the old and new do mix, and I suppose I'm thinking about stuff like the Aberdeen Maritime Museum buildings blend. But in many cases, usually where there's been no thought involved, it's just not good at all.

[@mrohyeahyeahlol4562]

Dawn-Marie - Love Experience I know

[@meridathebrave6770]

What! no snow! Seriously, where did hide the snow you got lately?

[@corindoyle]

6.30 mark in the video, is that the James Watt Marina in Greenock? I'm looking for livaboard mooring with nearby parking and storage in that area. You'd approve I'm sure, I'm a conservation stonemason who works on listed buildings and I want to start doing work off a boat in the Western Isles during summer, wintering over somewhere like Greenock.

[@EdExploresScotland]

Yup, that was the dock. The James Watt Marina has a website, and I think that'd be a good place to begin enquiries. Good luck.

[@corindoyle]

@@EdExploresScotland thanks very much. I'll check out the website.

[@stevenmoran1525]

Good on yeah Eddy

[@FireDragonAndromeda]

I came from Greenock and heard there was approved plans to partly demolish the Oak Mall and replace it with flats.

[@EdExploresScotland]

I think if they demolished it and replaced it with Greenock that would be a step in the right direction.

[@weemt07biker74]

Should see the state of the comet replica now, is breaking apart. Really sad to see

[@EdExploresScotland]

Sorry to hear that. It's an important part of the history of the area.

[@weemt07biker74]

@@EdExploresScotland yeah seemingly a lack of money. Sad.

[@threefootballbudsdarts2100]

I live there

[@robertgreen5217]

Back when you were aloud oot.

[@EdExploresScotland]

Absolutely.

[@weehen4743]

Private Video keep it that way please

[@EdExploresScotland]

I'm not sure what you mean. These videos are 'Public'.

[@gibby7233]

its not newark castle it is pronounced new ark castle

[@EdExploresScotland]

Thanks. I'm always mispronouncing things.

[@alancumming6407]

Sadly they are about to replace this ugly entrance/exit from the Oak Mall with flats which look, on paper, even uglier.

[@EdExploresScotland]

Last time I had the misfortune to pass through the Oak Mall shopping Centre it looked as if it was falling apart at the seams, with buckets here and there to catch water ingress. Nigh past the time they knocked it down.

[@oaktree5975]

Just moved from the area and I am glad , the place is a toilet.

[@jamiemckeown1643]

🎧💻Glasgow

[@redbrick146]

🎧📱❤