The real calton & Barras & paddys market

[@colshythecomedian]

Your videos are absolutely amazing. I've stayed up late every night to watch these. I grew up in the 70's 80's so this is just reminding me of what it was like when I was young. Best channel on KZbin

[@franobulax7300]

Hard to believe this was the 1980s , I left school in 1984 straight into Thatchers dream, worked for a wee while down at Paddy's, I feel like the heart and soul of Glasgow has always been under attack, left to rot demolished, rebuilt badly left to rot demolished rebuilt.. meanwhile breaking down families making people ill and hopeless and lost in booze and later on drugs destroying generations splitting the working class strength in unity and ultimately socially cleansing the real heart and soul of the people of Glasgow because together the people of Glasgow posed a real threat to the establishment,

[@barbara1904]

Couldn’t have said it better. I think it was just that when industry died, Westminster only wanted to support the London area. That all they have done since. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@marimurphy3856]

Loved the 70s growing up in East end.

[@JanMac-so7uy]

I was born at the cross in a tenement all this area was my playground in the 70s. A funny thing in 1982 when this was made people used to say at this time the Barras isnae the same LOL! I got a trade as a scaffolder and moved away in the mid 80s to work in the oil industry that would take me all over the world and give me a very fortunate life but these sort of videos remind of my old gran and granda and times playing and fighting in the green and the streets around the Glasgow cross.

[@iainlindsay5687]

Amazing video love it. The Glasgow i grew up in.

[@wullymc1]

What a bit of old Glasgow nostalgia. Love it. When i heard the drums at the end I thought it was the orange walk. PMSL

[@GIRO]

Peter toben at 19- 09? Could be bible John.

[@stephenbrown8018]

Loved watching this. Bleak, gritty but authenticity Glaswegian

[@shammon1]

I used to sell at Paddys years ago, many of us who needed cash at the weekends would put a sheet on the ground and sell what we had. I used to keep the corners of the sheet knotted so when the police came it was easy to gather up and sling it all over my shoulder. There was always a lookout so to speak who would shout if the police were about. Easy cash in hard times. all gone now and the part we used was taken over by the court.

[@johnthomson2964]

Thanks for posting its hard to believe thst was the 1980s and not the 18 80s its quite sad some of the lives lived in such poverty this should be compulsive viewing in schools

[@nealdew71]

It wasn't all bad I was only a boy but we had good parents a hard working father & a great wee mammy . Not everyone had that & I'm grateful for it now . We need to look after the unfortunate not down on them . We were the only house with a phone & car I remember my dad going to work early so I could take people to hospital . 30 year on I'm still doing it but had to stop after a ban .Theres more families with cars who dont forget & do the same now £40 for a taxi up & down. I would rather they gave me petrol money & kept the rest to recover. They always brought me something back fae holiday . We need community spirit back. You not got that you got nothing.

[@barbara1904]

All thanks to a Westminster government.

[@grobbler1]

Great channel! Please keep the videos coming.

[@MariaLeathem]

It just seems like yesterday where have the years gone 😢❤

[@stuggypren744]

Thanks for posting!

[@iansmith321]

Although I wasn't born during these days I always love watching these type of videos. I love history, I love seeing how the older generation lived hearing their stories. I honestly could easily watch them all day. Now I'm wondering if that wee guy beat his dad's record 😂

[@GIRO]

Wee Joe mcgill fae Maryhill never worked never will. 👍

[@grobbler1]

A lot of decent people in that video. Just trapped by circumstance at the time. The sneery tone of that narrator would be different if he had been born into those circumstances. Wonder if he ever realised that.

[@albertreynolds9287]

Great video I grew up in the brigait in 60s and 70s spent many times in paddy's Glasgow has been treated badly through generations that area around brigait still in terrible state no investment its criminal the way Glasgow is Glasgow should be a great city

[@GIRO]

Glasgow is a good city 🏙 if you know where to go and there is still a lot of good shops Na who ma kidding place is a fukn riot Junkies , wee arseholes ,alcoholics n worse Place used to be nice 👍🏻

[@albertreynolds9287]

@@GIRO your so right it is full of addicts alcoholics I feel like it's went backwards I'm surprised glue sniffing not made a return this city needs real investment the young people don't have any real future

[@norbertalbertz7259]

Glasgow is hell on fcking earth

[@cyclesgoff9768]

Pre COVID I was on jury service in the high court, the smoke breaks were taken at the rear overlooking the fenced off Paddy’s Market, my fellow smokers were unanimous in their delight that it was gone. I just couldn’t feel the same way.

[@MariaLeathem]

Their was alwas a great buzz at the barres at the weekend i loved it 🎉😂❤

[@hippyskin6490]

Great video 😄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@williamf4544]

Paddys markets was great in its hay day - towards the end there was only a few of the old school still trading but a lot of the "i saw you comin type" had taken over - its a shame for them old school ones that it closed tho - its missed

[@marimurphy3856]

Sure was.

[@deeppurple883]

50 year's later we are only waking up to the social medical issues all City's have. Here in Dublin we are fighting tooth and nail for human rights. Homelessness and addiction are the two biggest issues we battle with. Same as Glasgow same with Dublin. ✊☘️

[@jasondullaghan3875]

The good auld days eh ..I used tae sell stuff doon the brigait wae my maw...sold aw my star wars stuff for a Hampden roar ...probs worth a few quid noo ffs 😂.......keep these vids coming they are simply awesome 👍👍👍

[@GIRO]

Shouldn't have sold star wars man.

[@jasondullaghan3875]

I know man what a fkn muppet eh 😫😫😫

[@katmac532000]

I'd have thought that the guy from the bus could have found some tweezers in the barras. Ideal for that monobrow

[@nealdew71]

Av no worked for 35 am tryin to beat my father he was 45 years no working . Al beat his record brilliant.

[@mrt9031]

😁

[@D_B_Cooper]

🤣

[@jonescrusher1]

It's almost too much to bear when Come On Eileen fires up. Thanks for putting this up, really interesting stuff.

[@stuartmilne8925]

The guy In the caravan cutting toe nail lol 🤣

[@GIRO]

The chiropodist had a wee caravan he helped a lot of people.

[@christopherjames375]

Total respect to jimmie boyle. A man who would not lie down . Countless beatings . Years in some 've. But he still came khtscdapling . Chucking piss and shit at them . A trueley good man . JIMMIE we salute you.

[@gordonhunter4805]

Jimmy Boyle was an aresehole of a man

[@claireashton4696]

Loving watching your videos.

[@GIRO]

Thanks claire

[@njoyingtube1]

i remember as a wain in the sixties the first building shown it was the women's model then ,my cousins lived up the close just past it on the top floor , us kids would be all over the market when it was open ., if you were in the back you could often hear the women screaming like banshees . A terrible memory of a place i loved , my grandda had a stall. opposite Moncur st next to the magic Stall of Tam Sheppard .

[@GIRO]

Tam shepherd's stink bombs.

[@RichardGraham-l6f]

An Anglo-Saxon cultural imperialists view o oor Glesca cultural heritage! This pairt o Glesca yaist tae be bustlin wi life an energy, an had a strong sense o identity an communal solidarity. There wiz plenty tae dae there. There wiz music, song, art, dancing, the dogs, the gee-gees, fitba, ye could bey onythin in the shoaps roon aboot - but best o aw - there wiz plenty jobs! Rough, aye, but many people wha bidet there, loved the character o the place, an enjoyed bidin there. Then, the English electorate voting for Maggie Thatcher, wha telt us that we needit tae hae different ambitions and a different lifestyle. Noo, in 2024 - there's nothing there!

[@GIRO]

Understand you completely mate I bidet here for sixty five year

[@Charlie-nq5qi]

Aye exactly the same Slung-On a Y-T-S and cos a lived next to the Coke~Cola Factory i was there awe summer doing casual until 7 weeks later when dogging ma YTS shite ,i actually went from £27:50 to a massive £160 ton a week at delivering coke~cola plus any amount a turns wae pallets to South Street doon the Clyde "£2:50 a pallet aswell,then go meet the Dunn & Moore fellas behind a pub in Brigton for empty cases ''ye could cash-in to the company so got any amount aff they good lads'' cos ye work anywhere back in the 80s until Thatcher had us over and look at state of the whole country and dear auld Glasgow. They YTS SHCEMES were just to keep the numbers up to make the Con's look so good,but when i left skool awy oor the Sou-Side we were spoilt rotten cos we had moved from slum houseing in the Gorbals out to further a feild the South Side as my parents must been in there Glory as it was 30bedrooms upstairs and my wee dad a Taxi Driver fur Red Flag In Oatlands ....Noo In Santa Monica Since 1993 & it's BRAW

[@grobbler1]

Y.O.P. Youth Opportunities Program. 'Yoppers' was the name for anyone doing it. Another way for the Tories to fiddle the figures. Think the Y.T.S. started in 1983.

[@tmac3771]

Looks happier times

[@peekachoo2083]

Thats why ma maw wid neverer me go up there alone near thr hostel. My parents were plastic snobs unfortunatly

[@carbonsiliconnn]

Christ! The fortune teller was a barrel of laughs. Your husband is 33, any pains in his arms? Don't make any plans for his 40th. Cut doon his work. That Gypsy would be sacked instantly by ATOS if she was on the assessment board for PIP

[@lamlash123]

At the start of film, I Thought the wee guy in the cream tin flute way the newspaper ( suit ) was going to gee the dude he’s talking to the Glesga kiss.

[@tongsyabass2643]

STOP THE GENTRIFICATION OF THE GALLOWGATE!!!!!

[@georgerichardson7728]

You got your wish, its still a shitehole, relax

[@jambodailly87]

Top drawer

[@DavidUKesb]

Some of those old geezers must be at least 35!

[@ErnstZundel45]

Davidukesb-is 35 auld ? Fk sk young man I must be ancient then 😂

[@aidy6000]

@@ErnstZundel45 I imagine its a jibe at the areas life expectancy

[@luckylivingfree6273]

GIRO PRODUCTIONS copy righted material 2019 dumbass

[@Charlie-nq5qi]

When Jaikeys WERE Jaikeys and not homeless people

[@jimmcfarlane5611]

Glasgow is still as depressing in 2023

[@Charlie-nq5qi]

I came back from Jersey to Partick where my wee bird moved to and was sent to that Hamish Allan Cebtre,to then that Sally Army Place at Paddys Market as Big Rab on the door '' Big Ginger Heed VERY COOL PATTER'' BANG Good People Handing-in Envelopes of CASH ''FOR THE SALLYS HEED BUMMER'' Am sure Big Rab was on to a few quid no just wee thin envelopes all like a couple a Grand every few hours random rich people doing there bit . Why iv'e never - ever lihed this lot wee wummin cheeeky auld bugger lived daceing ma gaff in the Sou-Side.....Bunch A Kid On Funf Raisers Noo Advertiseing £30 nots for a OBATION as i do not know one person that actually re-housed outta that RANCIS MOB. PURE ON YOP IN THE EARLY 90s Cos They Could

[@StrawberrySunday212]

The Barras are dead now. I mind going in for my 1st time in my life back in the late 80s and I was horrified. All these dirty smelly clothes hanging up and people selling old crap that most folk would toss in the bin, dirty cafes that stank of grease and ciggy smoke. Wasn't for me.

[@marimurphy3856]

Sad miss the old days.

[@luckylivingfree6273]

00:35 its only fucking boycy

[@gordonwilson1032]

wee are all Jock Tampsons wains

[@owenmccall632]

English accent sounds patronising.otherwise enjoyed trip doon memory lane

[@norbertalbertz7259]

Good ole glasgow, a city I onced ruled with an iron fist

[@georgerichardson7728]

cool story bro

[@jefffaescotland7768]

Great piece of film but,i fecken HATE english commentators

[@stringologymchugh4245]

Swill away any money they have? That's what you get when you have a posh announcer.

[@bam-skater]

Hard to believe that by that point £billions were being sucked out the North Sea.....wonder where it all went, eh?

[@GIRO]

There ment to be bigger reserve’s in Scotland’s North Sea that we aren’t told of because we are a western Saudi rich country still under control by an English led government

[@barbara1904]

The Greater London area.

[@GIRO]

It mostly got bumped of the people of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@dalemcfaddenfuku9995]

before i die i will make a mark on the fuked world