The Red Road Flats Story

[@samclinton874]

I moved into the flats as an 8 year old in 1968. Absolutely brilliant place, full of life and more importantly other kids. Red Road gets a bad reputation because of the things that went on in the late 80’s/early 90’s. Initially full of hard working families who took a pride in their homes. Would go back to those days in a heartbeat if I could.

[@georginaohara42]

Can we all just take a moment of silence for the “White Mice”. The men who built these flats unknowing they were exposed to deadly asbestos that would later kill them in the most horrendous way. They’re families STILL fight for justice. Glasgow Remembers 🙏🏻

[@sandrafinbar]

Very sad.

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

All around the country, and indeed around the world, vast numbers of people have been exposed to asbestos despite it being known to be a killer. A family friend died of it in the 1980s from work exposure in the 1960s and 70s. It was one of the most horrific experiences of my life to see him like a skeleton in the hospital bed. No-one was even prosecuted.

[@SpaceDogGlobalEntertainment]

@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Sorry to hear that, asbestos is something that should never have been allowed to be used, the dangers of it were discovered in the early 1900s so building contractors have no excuse to be using it in constructions decades later. Hopefully justice will come for the families of people who died from asbestos related conditions, absolutely terrible that it hasn’t yet.

[@skabbymuff111]

Thanks for this fascinating history lesson! You sound very young, yet this is an incredibly articulate piece, wish you all the best for the future mate.

[@SpaceDogGlobalEntertainment]

Thanks very much!

[@a.h.3456]

My family lived in a flat on the 30’th floor on Petershill Drive through the 70’s and 80’s. The Graham family, John and Sadie and kids. They had great memories there.

[@johndonaldson3619]

Great storytelling - thank you!!

[@guitarjourneyguitar1215]

stayed there in 1987/88 ymca building, just 16, skint and away from family and friends to attend college. what an experience xD. great times and i sometimes look back in wonder how i came through it unscathed lol. there used to be a pub called the brig, right in the middle and tucked away under the shopping area, what a place. at that time at my age it was hard at times to live there, but great fun and great memories as well. thank you for uploading

[@billyandrew]

David Naismith Court. The posh way of saying YMCA. 😂

[@davidfaulds2960]

I actually went to go to the brig a few times on a Sunday night around that time.

[@jamesdougan6095]

l lived in 20 Petershill Court from 1988 till 1992, and worked as a concierge at 213 Petershill drive and 93 Petershill drive for 23 years, l saw it all good and bad.

[@jamesbonner874]

Hi Jim worked in red rd now at Charles st. Jim bonner.

[@jamesdougan6095]

@@jamesbonner874 hi Jim, l thought that you would be retired by now, they must be paying you to much eh?

[@jamesbonner874]

Retire next march Jim.

[@allwrighty100]

Sounds like this was done for a school project, 10 out of 10 and top of the class.

[@stuartrennie654]

My family lived in Rye Road, Barmulloch but moved out in 1964. I never returned to the area but recall seeing these flats as I returned to Scotland over many years. I found this very interesting and you obviously did your homework. Well done.

[@bettyprice6316]

"Boom!" and it's as if they where never there, all the characters and memories.

[@davidfaulds2960]

I was a milk boy and we used to deliver milk to these flats,every now and then the lifts would be out and had to go up the fire escapes and deliver milk to the back doors. Some of the fire escapes only had 2 doors from a 4 door landing, so had to do 2 different fire escapes for the same landing.

[@joedouglas7656]

Brilliant wee man 💯👌🙂❤️

[@paulwilton735]

Thanks, my mother was from Glasgow. Interesting.

[@joeboyd8702]

That was really interesting. Thanks for uploading.

[@rbrtdff]

This is so informative, thanks

[@zombeat7376]

TBH I lived there in mid 90's. from around 1996-99. I really liked it. Never realyl had any big probklems or hastte just people asking me for money. neighbours were all good. I remember when I lived there thinking the flats were about the nicest things in the area. the old pub at the corner which was a disaster next to the garage and surrounding area looked terrible. The flats were nice at night with all the lights and the concierge were great made you feel safe...ish..as you could always get them.

[@billyandrew]

The Broomfield Tavern. It wasn't too bad in the early to mid '90s, then went rapidly downhill.

[@JAS299]

Interesting video

[@perham44]

Many a good time spent partying in the YMCA block between 1989 and 1992,they were used by Stobhill Hospital to house Student Nurses.

[@Schemez-16vhiphopbeatz]

I think tower blocks give a city character

[@JT-df3yz]

Brilliant video man just to let you know that 305 and 341 Caledonia Road are going to be getting demolished soon and they have just started emptying the 2 towers

[@SpaceDogGlobalEntertainment]

I was debating on whether to make Caledonia Road or Wyndford the final episode of season 1, I chose Wyndford since GHA just proposed a plan to demolish them too, but Caledonia Road are definitely the next video after Wyndford

[@StefanGabrielRoHu]

😥, the buildings were so interesting, cool looking.

[@tropicalpalmtree]

Totally agree. It's a devastation to Glasgow and it's skyline that they are gone, especially with the gallowgate twins gone too.

[@__Lachie]

Thank you for a fun history story

[@misfit2022]

Very interesting and I wonder if the residents watched from chairs for those who remember the Still Game episode

[@jdillon8360]

Interesting video. Love your accent! I'm glad those towers were pulled down. Hopefully something nicer is built in their place

[@SpaceDogGlobalEntertainment]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! Well yeah I’m hoping they build something nice as well, but it’s been eight years and there’s still big piles of rubble on the site. They stopped working on it in 2016 or 2017, just left mountains of rubble there. Hopefully in the future they’ll do something nice with it.

[@rtcp2020]

@@SpaceDogGlobalEntertainmenthow would the Red Road flats look like today if they were never demolished?

[@SpaceDogGlobalEntertainment]

@@rtcp2020 Hmm, I’ve never really thought about that before. I think they would either stick with the 2000s look or they would have renovated them at some point in the late 2010s or early 2020s, if they did that, there’s no way of knowing how they would have painted the blocks, but I do imagine they would have added lights at the top of the buildings, similar to Charles Street in Royston.

[@ChrisWelsh-t4x]

I remember in the 90's it was once described as hell on earth? People were burgled, mugged, stabbed, raped or even murdered there. Im from north Lanarkshire and remember it having a terrible reputation at the time.

[@gabriele3824]

Good job 👏👍🙂

[@SpaceDogGlobalEntertainment]

Thanks!

[@acdcrulz40]

Awesome thanks 😊

[@alexandercarder2281]

Terrible waist of property that could house the uks homeless. I was always impressed by them every time I drove through Glasgow along the M8

[@jonathanhindson4580]

Nothing wrong with high rise living, it's the people who live in them

[@samclinton874]

Total nonsense. I was brought up here. Initially full of hard working families. It was only later that it became a difficult place to live.

[@sergeanthowiefromthemainland]

It was a disgrace that people were forced to live in these instead of proper streets and communities.

[@danielward7008]

The red road flats in particular were terribly designed. Miles out of town and totally inhuman in scale.

[@perham44]

​@@danielward7008they're about a mile and a half from the city centre. So not miles.

[@danielward7008]

@@perham44 It's two and half miles away actually, so miles out of the city centre, as I said. I know Red Road, it's desolate and there's nothing there. It's a defacto desert on the edge of a city.

[@stuarty72]

They where built in balornock only 1 flat was built in barmulloch at birnie court

[@billyandrew]

Some haufwits on the council put forward a proposal to have the demolition incorporated into the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games, as I remember. Their mammies must have been greetin in shame. 😂 Thanks for uploading this blast from the past.

[@benmackay5160]

Very interesting!

[@SpaceDogGlobalEntertainment]

Thanks very much! Glad you liked it!

[@benmackay5160]

@@SpaceDogGlobalEntertainment Was watching the movie Red Road from 2006 then watched this after learning the flats were demolished. Parts of that movie were shot at the flats.

[@MigsPorteNews]

Pq o red road Foi Demolido? Eles Eram tao Novos Oq aconteceu?

[@SpaceDogGlobalEntertainment]

They were considered a nice place to live at first, but later on they started to become more run-down, and the council decided to demolish them because the cost of maintaining the buildings was lower than the rent they were receiving. Apparently they wanted to build new houses on the site, but it’s been 8 years and still nothing has been built.

[@MigsPorteNews]

A eu entendi

[@MigsPorteNews]

Como eles tirou a cor dos Prédio Tbm?

[@MigsPorteNews]

Space Você já Morou No Red road?

[@SpaceDogGlobalEntertainment]

@@MigsPorteNews The actual structures of the buildings were made from steel, basically the colours were part of the outside shell of the building, which was removed prior to demolition along with the interior, so that only the steel frame of the building remained. It was probably to stop debris, and they had to remove the windows which were part of this shell so that glass shards couldn’t injure people.

[@Aviationboy_1]

The "Rubble" That is still there is for the promised "new" homes. Its not rubble. But good video.

[@stuarty72]

The flats where built in barlornock there was only 1 flat in barmulloch at birnie court

[@johnhamilton604]

They are not in barmulloch the red road flats are in balornock

[@equinox95]

Looks like Chicago

[@adebolabloke6962]

Robert Taylor Homes

[@stormvogel6]

Mooi verhaal hoor...maar jongens, hadden we nou niet beter de bewoners eerst moeten waarschuwen!!??

[@billyandrew]

👏👏👏😂

[@2Sugarbears]

So they could throw out the people but not the Kestrels. Over simplified but of accuracy.

[@billyandrew]

Protected species.

[@Ray-xh6gb]

Tall flats

[@rexter6944]

😢😢😢

[@alfredroyal3473]

Filing cabinets for human beings, unfit for families, OK for singles or couples, like yuppies

[@bartonseagrave9605]

Isn’t it odd how tower blocks that are blown up for demolition look exactly like the Twin Towers tragedy in New York.

[@ProjectCreativityGuy96]

You should sound more authentic when narrating this presentation, and not sound like an unambitious person who drops out of school at the age of 16, like as if Your teacher has given You a simple assignment to do for Your topic in history class! I don't want to sound ignorant, but I also speak in Glasweigan, and yet, even I know that I should know to give a more heartfelt narration than the kind that just sounds NEDish sounding, if You know what I mean! I know You are probably thinking what's the big deal, and yes, I completely agree, but sometimes the smallest issues can become more of a bigger deal than We think... It's strange! Look I'm sorry if I sound like I am whining here, it's just My opinion, but it's because I am Scottish also, and only Our kind (most of them) will understand what I mean on this subject! 😅 But as a whole, the video is genuinely useful for historical purposes, even though the narration could have been better, but that's only My opinion! Take care! 😉👍