Glasgow slum housing.

[gael638]

Thanks, My dear old granda left scotland in the early 20's to go coal mining at Denniston, New Zealand. He was awsum.

[ghostxaligheri]

good for information thank you it helped a lot post more of these.

[TheEpicController]

thanks 4 uploading horrible conditions

[DavCynLondon]

Any idea what piece of music this is?  Very pretty and sad.

[DavCynLondon]

I see that a lot of people are impressed with this video and music.  My mother-in-law lives in Scotland; her gran lived in a place similar to the video above. I shared this video on Facebook, hoping my musical friends could help me with the name of the music, but nobody seems to know. Is there, please, any chance you might tell us what this piece of music is? Many of your commenters have asked, but I don't see a response.

[AlinaAnn]

It's sad how once again the youtube comments have turned racist. I agree that homes should be offered to the people who've been waiting the longest. But I don't agree with the people who bang on about their forefathers dying in wars and how immigrants have done nothing for the country. Be honest, you've never fought in a war and you've probably not done much for the country either. So where is this sense of entitlement coming from?

[sparticus1able]

ghana housing association ,,,yes folks the racist housing association ,,no point system for immigrants,,slums for glasgow born ,,i was asked to find a private flat ,,while they house them boys who cant speak a word of english..right off boats and housed instantly ,,,i wish to thank gha for turning me racist

[sarabower1]

where Ian Brady grew up

[davidgrahamscott]

Poignant and well made..I bet some of these buildings could have been revamped in their original form though. The old tenements are much nicer than much of the rubbish they built post WW2

[loobsy1]

@davidgrahamscott Now they are actually knocking down the High Rise Tower Blocks that they built to replace all the tenements that they knocked down! They have totally ruined Govan, knocked three quarters of the tenements down, changed their mind and left a quarter up. It looked 1000% better when all the tenements were still up in 1930 than it does now!

[Krimewave186]

What piece of music is this?

[jonagilly]

Excellant work.

[rfc1able]

immigrants PUSHED to the front of the housing queue , and the goverment are asking us to like them , yeh right

[rfc1able]

@ superhamzah85..oh i see you mean the asylum seekers who pass through 20 or so countries ? yes 20 or so countries to get free money .. housing , food , education , health care , why not flee to the first country as stated in the asylum rights manual ? i know folk whove been in homeless units for almost 2 yrs ,, but no problem housing these poor BOGUS people

[rfc1able]

its only immigrants that are getting the nice houses ,,there are no immigrants in homeless units ,, it makes me sick and they are here with there pathetic excuses in why and how they are persocuted

[superhamzah85]

@rfc1able

No...they're asylum seekes. Not immigrants.

[chesterpiglet11]

Thank you so much for the video. My mother was born in 1909 in the Gorbals and this meant a great deal to me to see these images. Beautiful music, also.

[UltimateVenom]

looks like today's outskirts of liverpool

[deno914]

We had to work our way through poverty - my mother, my father, my grandparents. .. no one helped us. But the immigrants of today live on the land and benefits that our forefathers built by sweat, blood, starvation and war. No third world immigrants have a right to this land. It is ours by birthright.

[jamesjeffreypaul]

Very enlightening--and, of course, heartbreaking.

[54smiler]

lovely images, music a bit solemn

[Ronzomac]

This really made me see how lucky i am.

[heifetz555]

what is the music please?

[superhamzah85]

I was born in Glasgow, to Asian immigrants.

Having my background makes it tough to identify yourself as anything.

But having watched this video, my heart fluttered at the names, buildings and faces. Despite my ancestors being in Central Asia at the time haha!

I never felt more at home than I do now. The progress since is a true testament to the spirit of this city.

[deno914]

@superhamzah85 How dare you even think to identify yourself with our ancestors. You have your own history... it is not Glasgow or Ireland. You will always be an Immigrant. We are ethnically British. Your background does not belong here.. We starved in the famine - we fought in wars, we died, we had hunger and disease and we triumped. We built this country - you just moved here.

[superhamzah85]

@deno914

Are you for real?

If so, then I pity you. You did not fight in any wars, you did not die for anything, you are not starving, you are not physically diseased (mentally though....is another issue). You built precisely *nothing*.

An immigrant is someone who has moved. I have not.

You do realise the majority of ethnic Scots are not in Scotland?

My dad worked his freakin ass off so don't YOU DARE belittle that, he is ten times the man you or your filth could ever hope to be.

[davidgrahamscott]

@superhamzah85 Good points superrhamzah

[PtbaScot]

I lived in burnside street in the cowdaddens as a child and remember it well. The people were poor but could leave their doors open and have no fear of being robbed. Changed days. The old community spirit when everyone was in the same boat has gone.

[Telfer81]

great video, my dads from Bridgeton and my mam from Maryhill,

[Gimmer3]

These areas are where my ancestors came from its very interesting.

[64sss]

nothing changed they still have cheeky staff the gha shellsuits bubblegum and most of all cant speal proper ,noh wit a meen man ,the staff sit there high and mighty talk to you like a prick you answer back and then they say get out our office ,of course all in front of there cameras in case you jump over and loose the plot .look at the amount of tits who work in there offices especially that arse in the parkhead east end homes yes the only male member of staff t tadger

[joywil1]

SINGIN IM NO A BILLY HESA TIM touring Scotland 2010.

Worth seing this play is full of good laughs patter and banter...

You Tube Im No A Billy Hes A Tim Clip

[jimmclaughlan]

James McLaughlan, Pollokshields

Very moving, very similar to the slums I was raised in in Burnbank Hamilton in the 40's & 50's

[weesox1690]

its probably worse now in some places in glasgow.lol

[avalonapple]

My mother always speaks fondly of growing up in the Gorbals...not many many material possesions, but some happy memories to last.

[000fraser]

Lovely music, makes u appreciate what we have now.

[guykennaway]

why on earth are the titles right across the images. It's a stupid bit of direction.

[phyllisandmaude09]

I am from Detroit, Michigan.

It is wonderful to view the country of Scotland on youtube, as I have no cash for travel, only for bills.

Thank you!

Connie

[Philspip007]

Thank you for taking me down memory lane. I lived in the Gorbals around the mid 1950,s we lived on the second landing and shared the outside toilet. We also did not have hot water. I could spend hours writing about my life in the Gorbals

[saminacam]

Very interesting and true to life. The music is haunting...what is is called, would love to get CD of same?

[slitmjst]

I was born in a tenement in Kinning Park in 1941, We had no electricity and had a gas mantle for lighting. We shared a toilet on the landing with three other families and to have a bath we went to the public baths and to wash clothes we went to the "steamie". When I tell this to my grandkids they can hardly believe it, but I still had a great childhood and would not have changed a thing

[rhoderaider1227]

I grew up in Kinning park in the early 60's and I watched as the buildings were taken down one by one.....My Mom worked at the steamie and my father worked in Govan. I tell my children of my upbringing and they think I'm exaggerating....but I'm not.....Cheers !

[YORKIE230557]

How quickly things have changed over the last 50yrs-I guess I was lucky,I lived in a back to back terraced house/one up-one down.We had a boiler on the wall in the kitchen for hot water and only had to walk to the bottom of the street to go to the loo-of which we shared with the neighbour&also had the luxury of newspaper to wipe our arse.lol.what gets me is-this Planet is Billions of yrs old.Whats taken us so long to get it right?&its ALL happened in the last 50yrs

[mikkifly]

very moving alex

thanks for sharing with us mate

as a history buff this channel is a gem.

[alexairlie]

cheers pal!

[erinundra]

@alexairlie  Hello Alex, thank you for this, brought memories back. The photo of Burnside Street, Cowcaddens, well it was still there in the 60s. I grew up around the corner in Abercorn Street, which wasn't much better. But despite the delapidated buildings, we had a great childhood and good education in Glasgow of the 1950s.

[mamself12]

I think you should have to portray the influx of migrants in that period ,(and even though it contaminated the City in many of the commentators of the period) as the real backbone of integration and the makings of what Glasgow became, and what most of us relate to ,as belonging to Glasgow. I think we should be proud of and remain proud of this brilliant wee City. Pity that some care less about anything and shame humanity,never mind , "Dear old Glasgow Toon".

Keep your videos coming Alex

[bena2136]

what is the song called, i love it!!!

thank you so much

[heavinutsman]

3:12 looks like a ghost at the under pass thing

[kookinoncool]

I said this as well some time ago, it looks like ghosts on the stairs, two wee boys and a woman, if you study it close.

[tomharris22]

thanks! this really helped with geography revision!

[alexairlie]

Glad this helped TomHarris,good luck!

[9170126]

Thanks Alexairlie.I was born in Glasgow in 1953 in Kelvinhaugh Street not far from Yorkhill. I have just finished reading "No Mean Street" and am now in the middle of "The Tobacco Lords" so your photos were very interesting, I could imagine the characters in the books in your photos. Thanks for posting. Elaine Rome

[alexairlie]

Hi,Good choice of books !!Glad the wee vids helped set the scene !

[Corrie121]

And we think we are hard done by today! Life must have been extremely hard for people in those days.

Enjoyed the video. Thanks a million for posting.

P.S.

Like the music too. Very relaxing.

[alexairlie]

Thank you corrie121.Much appreciated.

[kookinoncool]

At 3:21, it's almost a ghost like figure on the stairs and at the window on the top left, enjoyed the compilation.

[alexairlie]

cheers pal !

[StewedTomato]

I think you might be right, it very well could be a ghost.

[PGPyramid1]

Not one tree or a single blade of grass to be seen.

[alexairlie]

..good point pgpyramid1 !Had not actually noticed that!

[jamierourketen]

his name is dougie gibson he drinks in the heilin jesse!

[jamierourketen]

my best mate lived in those short dwellings at "VINEGAR HILL" on the gallowgate,the very last to be pulled down in 1980s.

[alexairlie]

aye,I remember them masel'

[alexairlie]

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[alexairlie]

thanks tommy

[whirlingtamthebam]

Good work Alex. Music adds to poignancy.