Red Road in the Rain

Europe's biggest high rise housing project from the 1960's now in the process of being demolished.

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[LukaSteinberg]

You don't know what a slum is, you retarded Dutch fuck.

[thepiper84]

what a shithole. Glad to know these eyesores are getting pulled down. Should never have been built in the first place waste of public money.

[18scotslad]

@cfcnlr These flats are in Springburn which is a shitehole. Royston, Barmulloch, Springburn, Barlornock are all shiteholes which is in the north of the city. Places like Kelvindale, Kelvingrove and Bearsden is where all the snobby and posh folk live. Lol.

[telemetry9]

A mausoleum is a beautiful thing. A fine and lonely structure.

You never lived in the high rise flats - did you?

[telemetry9]

oh yeh - refurbished after only 3 years of being constructed? Now that's a record breaking refurbishment.

The flat we lived in is now demolished and Thank the good Lord for that. I guess they didn't see refurbishment in their final solution to a toxic hell hole.

But keep up the positivity. It obviously works for you..

[heythanksbutnothanks]

@thepiper84 As far as I heard when they built these flats in 1969 it was really helpful and filled up with lots of people from the Gorbals area who were needing housing, I reckon high flats are a good space saver for as it houses many people and does not take up so much room. But what I think is a waste of money is these flats were only built in 1969, and that is not all that long ago in the scheme of buildings. they should have made an effort to upkeep the surrounding area better.

[heythanksbutnothanks]

I still find a couple things hilarious when I lived there, I remember one morning I got up and decided to go to the Kwik save round the corner, but on the way round I met a guy I know and he said where are you going? I said to Kwik save, he said it is not there anymore it has been burned down, I thought he was kidding, but when I turned the corner there was a big space where the quick save was, and it was fenced off, he wasn't kidding. Oddly though I actually quite enjoyed living there.

[heythanksbutnothanks]

yes i used to live here when I was in my 20s, I actually feel a wee bit sad that they are getting demolished, but I remember when I lived there that these flats were the nicest thing about this area they actually looked not that bad from the outside and inside they were kind of nice too considering the surrounding area, I doubt if I could do it now but at the time it was walking distance into Glasgow city centre.

[YTPEXPERT]

@thepiper84 eyesores? those buildings looked amazing! standing there, tall and proud 

[cfcnlr]

fuckin hell glasgow is a depressing looking dump

[stolpioni]

Why pull them down? They look nice to me.

[telemetry9]

There is a hidden psychological impact of living in these concrete islands - separate from EVERYTHING.

I guess you have to experience the visceral reality of something in order to understand it.

A shame that some only care about money and status and think they are so much stronger and faster and "tougher" than those they look down upon. They are ignorant as to the true nature of life for many. We come from a brutal past - for many it still is.

Glasgow is fading in this new labour inequity.