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Shame how the people of Glasgow were use as an experiment by the money people knowing full well theses people had brought Glasgow trough all the rough times of the 2nd World Warbut were not what you would call people who ever had anything of their own as far as Real Estate and therefore gushed about having more room in these shitholes.I am guessing that the designers and highly paid architects that designed them ever lived like that.

😂 looking in on manky bella and dancer

Stirling the poverty to make crime 😂welcome to government

So that lady's balcony at 6:08 was how that pair of lady's undies ended up on me dad's head back in 67!! He told me mam "that fell out of the sky - I swear dear, I don't know where they came from!" Funny, she didn't look like a woman who wore a thong!

I think that edgit who built it also built the Divis Flats in Belfast and they were pulled down too.

Do architects ever think about the people who have to live and/or work in their buildings? Fair enough the flats were lovely inside, but balconies 20 storeys up, these grim, dark corridors which make you feel unsafe just looking at them and no facilities for miles. Saying that I live about fifteen miles from Falkirk and the High Flats there are very successful and people who live there love them. They are in a beautiful park (Callendar Park) and they have the town centre nearby.

Why did they not build them more like the old tenements. They were compact and allowed for green space. They were built of sandstone which worked for the climate and people wouldn't feel disconnected from the street because they were too high. The lesson of Glasgow is that the tenements for the slightly more affluent people are still standing - they were well built, maintained and probably less crowded, as people could afford higher rents.

He was my Grandfather - funny thing is, I own and live in a large country house on the coast, much like many he knocked down.

I was fortunate to grow up in a Bungalow 60 miles away from these High Rise flats. I shudder often, thinking about "whatif"......

Brilliant. Thank you. Why don't they make documentaries like this anymore.

There is a plaque outside the shop to Mr. Bowler.

Gorbals is a housing estate in Glasgow

Thank you for reviving memories of the 70s trips to sunbathe on Studland Beach...lovely to see Ken Thomson too...he was the first Skipper I ever saw in May '70...dgp

Why would somebody wear a hardhat to chip concrete and not bother wearing safety glasses??.. Eegits

enjoyed this so much, what a lovely man !

Helen Tinney, ma pal John and classmate's mother, RIP Mrs Tinney.

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Loved watching this, thank you.

My home town lovely to hear a few Dorset accents

Whos was the union jack GS

I hope to be this man.... a few years from now! Still fixing watches and was taking care of himself. Wow.

No mobile phones and no 4 stroke vespas brilliant !!!!!!!!

Thank you for uploading this splendid, introspective film. So poignant @ 9:00 with his main regret. It's something I've often thought about my father, who was a brilliant engineer. All the knowledge gained over a lifetime ends in a moment.

25:13 is exactly what happened here and where I stay in Sighthill ..spooky that lady called it

These flats are the ugliest things I’ve ever seen.

Looks at conrad strutting his stuff😅

Go conrad go😅

Go conrad go 😂

Hi conrad have you got an email i can contact you on,thanks

They look really smelly….🤷🏻‍♂️ 😂🤣💀

Looks like something built in Russia. Built to replace the gorbals and all they did was replace crap with new crap.

My parents moved us down south in 72/73 because they didn't want us growing up in depression times in Glasgow. It's still my birthplace and i visit family whenever i can get up the road. The ending reminded me of The Still Game episode. Thanks for the upload.

The female that sounds like a west end art student, the one who thinks “Glasgow might regret demolishing these buildings” should have been made to live in the fucking things. Her tune would have soon changed.

My Nana lived in these flats so I was very familiar with them as a kid. Plus I went to school just across the road so they were a constant familiar sight. I grew up in the Stirlingfauld flats on the edge of the gorbals. They were horrible, brutal, filthy shit holes and Glasgow is better off now most of the tower blocks are gone.

Im a rangers fan from Liverpool and on one if my trips up there I went with a mate who was a celtic fan to a boozer in the gorbals that he claimed was owned or run by Dalglish's father in law. This was over 40 years ago, and my memory is a bit sketchy there was football shirt memorabilia on the walls thats all I can remember. Anyone know this place?.

Where were the tenants rehoused? They must have been surely. The film never said. Awful to see them go if you'd been happy in them. It seems it was the kids that were gladdest for the building's to go.

These flats are pretty much the same as the ones in Dublin. Anyone who's Irish will know what I'm talking about. The were barely habitable and were miles from anywhere hence why the area had a terrible reputation. I love Glasgow, the people are lovely and of course that gorgeous accent

those CLEPTOPARASITES knew what they were up to...would've been CRAZY had that there miserable 1960s flair ever had a share at grandstanding about sprawling Man & His World back in the middle of the St Lawrence...that (Scotch) strain of design was never e v e r happenstance, fuck...

Hark at little Miss Posh Drawers at the start. It's easy for her to get all nostalgic at the loss of those Brutalist abominations when she doesn't have to live anywhere near. She gets to fuck off home to her massive house in Newton Mearns, Pollockshaws or Mount Florida.

Remember folks they were all the so called privileged white people that lived there so keep apologising for the black slave trade that had fuck all to do with you

24:15 "and nobody would even give her the time of day" Wow, what an observation/insight by that man.

Designing these horrible designers fancy ideals didn’t take into account the poor souls having to live there

How can anyone seriously go on about the artistic qualities of the architect when these things look like they would be better suited to Russia . Just big dark concrete blocks

Janice Kirkpatrick clearly never lived in one!

Basil Spence was the architect ( no pun intended ) of quite a few monstrosities, Great Michael Rise in Edinnurgh being another example. Built for the poor families of New Row after its demolition, these tiny flats are to be seen to be believed, damp and with unfeasibly steep concrete steps. One strange thing about my grandma's block is the smell in the common stairwell, god knows what it is but it hasnt changed since the 70's.

Having been born in Glasgow in 1993, its really hard for me to watch these glasgow documentaries, its kind of emotional and difficult to process.

3:14 handsome workie guy,

People didnt like them becauce youre forced tae live in a box surrounded by 400 people , the national pride abd history of the area existed only in the people , once they died everyone forgot . Why didnt they just repair what was there and itd be seen like a house in the cotswolds not a burtalist nightmare filled with drugs and poverty. Go to florence italy ...they preserved their history and its different aye but its beautiful ! We got robbed of our history by pretentious egotistical prats who wanted us to live in designated pods " building a , b and c

I was fortunate enough to grow up in a house 20 miles away from Glasgow..My mother always said the site of these flats put the fear of death into her any time we passed by on the road.

Why were the demolished?