Glasgow Guide: This is Springburn

Glasgow Guide: This is Springburn

Second in a series of 'This is...' slideshow videos about Glasgow, music by Deacon Blue and Del Amitri.

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About Springburn:

Situated to the north of the city, Springburn grew and declined as the railways, and in particular the Cowlairs depot, grew and declined. In its heyday, Springburn employed over 8,000 men in locomotive building and exported to over 60 countries and was Britain's major railway centre. However with the onset of diesel and electric trains, and an inability to move with the times, the first of the builders, the North British Locomotive Co., closed and within 20 years, locomotives were no longer part of the industrial base of Springburn. The last of the works at St Rollox closed in 1988.

Demolition of tenement flats has left Springburn with few areas of housing, with the result that most of the resident population has moved to the high-rise flats of nearby Balornock.

In nearby Sighthill cemetery is a monument to John Baird and Andrew Hardie who were involved in the so-called Radical Rising of 1820.

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[jamierourketen]

were are the photos of the neds and junkies!

[nicola2501]

that wis brilliant mate keep up the good wurk!!!

[Ryctophaze94]

@jamierourketen In your family album

[lynnemorey1]

thank you for these my these pics take me back



[weeross13]

im soooo bored so i typed springburn

[kennybhoy79]

wtf,come back et the weekend ya tool

[gempenguins1]

here mate they hooses wirny there before:S?

[totalwipeout117]

is this before it became a shite hole

[scottt923]

Sprngburn Academy Best School

[yfronts88]

@knectz aye should be lovely lmao

[sloany24]

@Billcaplan  I was in your class at secondary school........ Where you living now Billy?

[Billcaplan]

In the name of the wee-man. I used to live in Springburn thirty odd years ago, and the Albert School was the one that I used to go today. What a fantastic video, so many memories have come flooding back

Good oan ye!!!