I come from and still live in Drumchapel. Like every other scheme in the city it’s had its up and downs. However in today’s world of 2024 a lot of change, however still a lot of good people. Great to see this
Grew up in Drumchapel at exactly the time of this video. Lived in Ryedale at the time of this I think, or Kinclaven Ave. We had a ball and to be honest, we never noticed how bad it was. When I look back at these videos, it's a wonder we ever survived. Most of the folk I know who got out, went on to be pretty successful career folk. I think the Drum taught us how to fight for something, cause we had nothing. Our parents had no chance.
I stayed up the hill 1967 -1981 left for the big smoke when I was 17 , funny thing we also moved there from Maryhill ( Lochburn Road ) and Ladyloan Ave in the Drum , I’ve no been there 40+ years, I got no complaints, I enjoyed getting brought up here.
Thanks so much, that's a lovely thing to say. I am trying to source some films that I worked on in the 80s and 90s that were really interesting, so keep watching.
It's absolutely brilliant to see some streets i haven't seen in so many years. It wasn't Beverly Hills, but i never knew any different at the time and it was the hand you were dealt. Some of the best people ive ever had the pleasure of knowing in life and made me the man i am. There's a lot worse than Drumchapel nowadays in Glasgow, let me tell you. I'll never hear a bad word about the Drum even now. Thanks for the video!
To be honest the narration was inaccurate, and most sounds like it was recanted by someone who didnt even live there (hypocritical revisionism) , the drum was a great place to live in the 70s and 80s , it's decline was more 90s , many streets are there in name only as it was leveled, also in thr video it duesnt show tue well kept maintained gardems and closes , mines where red and the where akways floor edges painted white , people took pride in where they luced ,showing derelict or junkies squates isnt showing the whole picture
Thank you, I trying to find one I made in the early 90s with a group of young people in Drumchapel it was a low budget drama called "Taking the Blame" the local community were amazing and gave us so much help and support in making it. I only have a very bad VHS copy of it.
Dunno who the narrator is on this but she's probably fae Peel Glen. Well played to all who survived. Remember empathy for others who might now be the scapegoat Absolutely beautiful Fuk The System
@datrenarakiel8202 it's not the accent it's the political narrative like every bad choice made was someone else's fault ! Parts of the scheme were a sh---ole which was not local or national government, s fault like people who urinated and vomiting in people closes or drug dealers
Talk about underfunded and being neglected by the city of Glasgow's ruling bodies .More than £300 billion of Scotland's oil wealth went to London during this time of degradation,while places like Drumchapel suffered irreparable damage and abject poverty ... unforgivable overall decisions fro Thatcher's Tory government .
I left a slum in Maryhill in 1970 for the comparative luxury of a house in Drummore Road. For personal reasons we had to move up the Hill in 1975. Whilst agreeing that Drumchapel saw a major decline in many aspects from the late 80’s onwards, I am proud to say that Drumchapel is where I am from. It saddens me greatly that the place I loved growing up has declined to the degree it has, evidenced to a large degree by the deplorable state of the once vibrant hub of the community, the Supey. 🥲🥲
I remember it well, It always felt like I was going to a fancier part of the city, but as i was coming from pollok to visit my grandparents it was by far a nicer place, it's funny to think all these years later and Glasgow is still a shit-hole most of the jobs are still low paid service sector and you can still hear mothers in drumchapel shout obscene language at their offspring, ah, Scotland eh!, the only country to have had oil and never see a penny from it, in fact we voted not to run our own country & have wealth, but instead allowed another to run us into the ground, kill off nearly all the industries that paid anything close to a decent wage, but we can look at the things we do have like the most drug deaths per year in Europe the shortest life expectancy a failing NHS a joke of a government & an out of control mass immigration problem (1 in 10 of us wasn't born here) and that number of these foreign folk grows every year, it's funny how when you've grown up in a shit-hole like the Drum and you get a crap job a crap car and a crap house you think I'm way better off than folk were when I was young & you miss the bigger picture of maybe 30 years from now in my city it might become like London/England or am I being a far right racist for not wanting my country to become like England or Germany, France,Ireland or any of these other countries which are having riots because of mass-immigration, Id happily go back to having nothing in 1985 than be living with the worry of what we might become.
I come from and still live in Drumchapel. Like every other scheme in the city it’s had its up and downs. However in today’s world of 2024 a lot of change, however still a lot of good people. Great to see this
Grew up in Drumchapel at exactly the time of this video. Lived in Ryedale at the time of this I think, or Kinclaven Ave. We had a ball and to be honest, we never noticed how bad it was. When I look back at these videos, it's a wonder we ever survived. Most of the folk I know who got out, went on to be pretty successful career folk. I think the Drum taught us how to fight for something, cause we had nothing. Our parents had no chance.
I stayed up the hill 1967 -1981 left for the big smoke when I was 17 , funny thing we also moved there from Maryhill ( Lochburn Road ) and Ladyloan Ave in the Drum , I’ve no been there 40+ years, I got no complaints, I enjoyed getting brought up here.
Peter, every video you add is utterly compelling. Thank you so much for sharing these histories.
Thanks so much, that's a lovely thing to say. I am trying to source some films that I worked on in the 80s and 90s that were really interesting, so keep watching.
It's absolutely brilliant to see some streets i haven't seen in so many years. It wasn't Beverly Hills, but i never knew any different at the time and it was the hand you were dealt.
Some of the best people ive ever had the pleasure of knowing in life and made me the man i am.
There's a lot worse than Drumchapel nowadays in Glasgow, let me tell you.
I'll never hear a bad word about the Drum even now.
Thanks for the video!
Sorry you’re not describing the Drumchapel I grew up in.Lived in Kinfauns drive for 27 years wasn’t perfect but I enjoyed my poor childhood
Lived in kinfauns myself 351 , then ryedale place ...cracking
i stayed in Kerry place all through the 70's , it was great hardly any money but we had a football.
I lived up the hill no complaints,loved growing up there ❤
I had relatives in Kinfauns drive. Loved visiting
To be honest the narration was inaccurate, and most sounds like it was recanted by someone who didnt even live there (hypocritical revisionism)
, the drum was a great place to live in the 70s and 80s , it's decline was more 90s , many streets are there in name only as it was leveled, also in thr video it duesnt show tue well kept maintained gardems and closes , mines where red and the where akways floor edges painted white , people took pride in where they luced ,showing derelict or junkies squates isnt showing the whole picture
The Drum is a lot better nowadays in 2023, but a great social history film, nice wan Bud, from Glasgow 😎👏👏👏👏👍🇬🇧
Thank you, I trying to find one I made in the early 90s with a group of young people in Drumchapel it was a low budget drama called "Taking the Blame" the local community were amazing and gave us so much help and support in making it. I only have a very bad VHS copy of it.
The 80s look so lonely, isolated and gritty from the camera footage.
I was there 1988 living in 9 Cally Avenue.
Fantastic piece of history. Anyone know the what the soundtrack is?
Great video i lived there from 1973 to 1997 and was glad to get out.
Dunno who the narrator is on this but she's probably fae Peel Glen. Well played to all who survived. Remember empathy for others who might now be the scapegoat
Absolutely beautiful
Fuk The System
You can thank liebour for that
Great film till she opened her mouth !
@datrenarakiel8202 it's not the accent it's the political narrative like every bad choice made was someone else's fault ! Parts of the scheme were a sh---ole which was not local or national government, s fault like people who urinated and vomiting in people closes or drug dealers
Massive chip on her shoulder
First one without subtitles
Talk about underfunded and being neglected by the city of Glasgow's ruling bodies .More than £300 billion of Scotland's oil wealth went to London during this time of degradation,while places like Drumchapel suffered irreparable damage and abject poverty ... unforgivable overall decisions fro Thatcher's Tory government .
Just shows you, poverty is generational and can’t be solved by knocked down estates.
Hi anybody here remember janette major brother shug dad sandy any news woukd be good also anybody in womens aid 1990 thanks x
I left a slum in Maryhill in 1970 for the comparative luxury of a house in Drummore Road. For personal reasons we had to move up the Hill in 1975. Whilst agreeing that Drumchapel saw a major decline in many aspects from the late 80’s onwards, I am proud to say that Drumchapel is where I am from. It saddens me greatly that the place I loved growing up has declined to the degree it has, evidenced to a large degree by the deplorable state of the once vibrant hub of the community, the Supey. 🥲🥲
I remember it well, It always felt like I was going to a fancier part of the city, but as i was coming from pollok to visit my grandparents it was by far a nicer place, it's funny to think all these years later and Glasgow is still a shit-hole most of the jobs are still low paid service sector and you can still hear mothers in drumchapel shout obscene language at their offspring, ah, Scotland eh!, the only country to have had oil and never see a penny from it, in fact we voted not to run our own country & have wealth, but instead allowed another to run us into the ground, kill off nearly all the industries that paid anything close to a decent wage, but we can look at the things we do have like the most drug deaths per year in Europe the shortest life expectancy a failing NHS a joke of a government & an out of control mass immigration problem (1 in 10 of us wasn't born here) and that number of these foreign folk grows every year, it's funny how when you've grown up in a shit-hole like the Drum and you get a crap job a crap car and a crap house you think I'm way better off than folk were when I was young & you miss the bigger picture of maybe 30 years from now in my city it might become like London/England or am I being a far right racist for not wanting my country to become like England or Germany, France,Ireland or any of these other countries which are having riots because of mass-immigration, Id happily go back to having nothing in 1985 than be living with the worry of what we might become.