That lovely movie takes me right back to my own childhood in Glasgow. In the school holidays you could travel as far as you liked on a tram for a penny. Any other time you thought of the tram as your only means of transport. Glaswegians didn't appreciate what they had in those days, but we became emotionally upset when the authorities closed down the trams and ripped up the lines. It took an Englishman to think so far in advance and to present us, 60 years later, with such an artistic and historical work of art.
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
I’m sure that Roy would have appreciated your words.
@davidcoleman6032
3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant film and commentary!Great it was all recorded before it was lost!
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
😊👍
@Meerkatbear
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks very much for uploading this excellent video. I was born in Glasgow in 1959 so the title immediately attracted me! I lived in a street adjacent to Mosspark Boulevard so the scenes around 8:40 were especially interesting - I was dead chuffed (Glasgow expression!) to hear Mosspark being described as being a "posh part" of the city and close to "well to do areas". One of my earliest memories was riding with my Dad at the front of the top deck of a No 3 tram heading along the Boulevard into town with my Dad. Bet the Council now wish they had kept at least some of their tram network - it would have put Edinburgh's single-line "network" to shame.
@tressteleg1
5 жыл бұрын
👍
@MsBigJohnny
4 жыл бұрын
Excellent film, so full of information, and a good dose of humour too, really enjoyed watching
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
😊👍
@awb17a96
4 ай бұрын
Brilliant. Videos like this are priceless for preserving history... So much of Glasgow is now lost....
@tressteleg1
4 ай бұрын
So true. Roy did an excellent job of capturing the tramway, and obviously the city, the way it was. It has also proved to be one of my most popular videos.
@brucewilliams8714
4 жыл бұрын
Well, that makes a change from watching Melbourne trams, which I've just been doing! What an insight into Glasgow history. Being able hop off before the tram stopped; I used to do that in Melbourne. The only double-decker trams I've used were in Hong Kong. Thanks a lot for posting this.
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
😊
@GrizzleyBear72
5 жыл бұрын
My Mum has lived in Mosspark for 51 years and i have lived in Mosspark for 47 years it was wonderful to see Mosspark from 60 years ago at 08.45-11.30 wonderful to watch and brought back memories for my mum
@tressteleg1
5 жыл бұрын
I’m pleased you both enjoyed it.
@wingco214
5 жыл бұрын
I lived in Glasgow as a schoolboy from 1956 to 59 and that is exactly how I remember it. Great memories.
@tressteleg1
5 жыл бұрын
That’s great to hear. Thanks!
@malcolmmacdonald2036
4 жыл бұрын
Fantastic footage...thoroughly enjoyed it 👍
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
😊👍
@1800morris
4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant doco, I was 3yrs old when it was filmed, I have just watched it (2019),I still remember the trams and streets from when my Mother used to take me with her everywhere. I now live in Australia. Loved the nostalgia. Well done ,loved every minute. I wanted to jump into the screen and go and see my Mother. bless you Roy Hubble.
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
I’m pleased that it brought back such happy memories! As you may have seen, sadly we lost Roy quite some years ago.
@edwardoneil3962
3 жыл бұрын
Me as well. A much better time all our families and friends would be alive and much more younger 😀
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
😊👍
@alexpettigrew695
5 ай бұрын
, . ,.
@666Codpiece
5 жыл бұрын
Superb piece of work. Captures the system in all it`s glory. Well done!
@tressteleg1
5 жыл бұрын
👍
@marymcgovern6488
2 жыл бұрын
Loved the tram cars I was a conductress also a driver bringing back lovely memories thanks .?
@tressteleg1
2 жыл бұрын
Great to hear from you. I’m pleased it brought back happy memories 😊
@geecars6263
3 жыл бұрын
That was thoroughly enjoyable, thanks for uploading it
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
😊👍
@jamesboyd8856
4 жыл бұрын
I remember some of those areas quite well. I was in Glasgow the night the last trams ran in 1962 and have several slides my dad took. One is of a horse drawn tram. It was pouring rain and I remember putting a penny on the track to have it squashed. Unfortunately I have no idea where it went. It was nostalgic to see and ride in a tram in Hong Kong about 20 years ago.
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
😊👍
@edwardoneil3962
3 жыл бұрын
How times have changed and I would say for the worst. You cannot get a bus theese days without waiting an hour in the pishing rain sleet and snow. I wish that we could all go back to the 50s life was so much better for people everywhere.
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately poor bus services are largely the result of many more people owning a car these days. Whether the disappearance of trams sped up a preference for car driving is uncertain.
@edwardoneil3962
3 жыл бұрын
@@tressteleg1 It would be a much better world without cars anyway.
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
@@edwardoneil3962 Only if public transport is excellent, which it is not in most places.
@AfterLife13
Жыл бұрын
Thank you 4 this.
@tressteleg1
Жыл бұрын
😊👍
@graememellor8319
5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely wonderful, thanks for sharing :D
@AndrewKerr5
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for brilliant video, some of the places featured are on my front door, quite literally. operating in areas where the trains had been cut in the late 1800s to early 1900s, or so I'm led to believe.
@tressteleg1
6 жыл бұрын
Roy Hubble certainly did a great job with his camera and narration. Glad you liked it.
@davebarclay4429
4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely wonderful. I was born in 1952 and grew up in Lanarkshire. When we went into Glasgow on the Central SMT bus the first sight of the city was always a pair of 29 trams (usually ex-Liverpool) at Broomhouse terminus which was directly outside Calderpark Zoo. Even as a child I remember the Cunarders being prone to rolling and the seats being very close together. The Coronations were much nicer to travel on. The only thing I would challenge in the commentary is the description of Airdrie as a "small town" - in 1959 the population would have been somewhere in the region of 28,000, around the size of modern Lichfield - but that's just a minor nitpick about a fantastic piece of Glasgow history.
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
I’m pleased that this video has brought these happy memories. It’s just a pity that Roy won’t know of your kind words.
@abw48
4 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1948, Alexandra Parade, between James Orr St and Wishart St and my bed was right at the window facing the street and so until aged 12 i went to sleep with sound of these Trams rolling by and when they took them away I had trouble getting to sleep. We moved along the Parade in 1960 to the top of Whitehill St. I left in 1966. But I will always belang tae Glesga, dear auld Glesga toon.
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
Aye, me Laddie 😊
@Alanvids
3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant film. We took a ride on the Glasgow tram in Crich a few years ago
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
That’s about the closest you can get these days.
@Alanvids
3 жыл бұрын
@@tressteleg1 yes for sure. It gave me pleasure knowing my parents may have used the same tram. When we entered Crich museum, we waited at a tram stop and although they use various trams on their piece of track, that day it was the Glasgow tram. The guys had Glasgow corporation uniforms on too. Superb
@FDCLDN
3 жыл бұрын
Back when people were free
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
Wrapping people up in Cottonwool etc seems to be happening more and more these days. The world is run by idiots.
@streetcar6896
4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful trams ! From Canada!
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
Streetcar68 😊👍
@MegaLochgelly
4 жыл бұрын
Glasgow looks as good as cities like Prague and Paris in this. Such a terrible town planning to take these away.
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
Mega Loch gelle Unfortunately in the English speaking world from before the world war, it became fashionable to replace trams with ‘modern diesel buses’. What a mistake that proved to be.
@yiqingxu6805
2 жыл бұрын
Hiya May I ask how to get copyright to use part of this video in student's work? Thanks
@tressteleg1
2 жыл бұрын
Hi, Well if you are not going to put it on KZitem there should be no problem. If you did, the problem is that the cameraman has died and the original film is now held by some other person or group and they may not be agreeable.
@Gordon669
4 жыл бұрын
1960's " i have a good idea, lets rip all these tracks up" 2020's "Err hang on!!!!!". Great film. my parent always spoke of "jumping on a CORR" .
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
Kukulkans Ruff Unfortunately ripping out trams and replacing them with ‘modern flexible buses’ was the fashion in nearly all the English speaking world from the 1950s or earlier until they were nearly all gone.
@charcolew
4 жыл бұрын
Auchenshuggle - pronounced Och - N - shoo - gl, with the stress on the "shoo".
@itsablack1
2 жыл бұрын
I use to live in Marryhill until 1972 at 7 years old , the trams were way before my time unfortunately .. They should have kept trams running , the pollution from the buses in the city centre was really bad for a very long time ..
@tressteleg1
2 жыл бұрын
I guess the video shows you some of what you missed. Unfortunately from the 1930s, replacing trams with buses was considered the modern thing to do, at least in nearly all of the English speaking world.
@afgor1088
3 жыл бұрын
glasgow seemed so much more alive before cars, suburbs and "hey look at my indistinguishable steel and glass architecture that cost several billion quid" took over. even despite the 50's camera footage it just looks so colourful almost like the city has a quirky personality of it's own
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
Those changes could refer to quite a few cities. It certainly did look a colourful place. Funny I have never any heard of talk of bringing trams back to Glasgow, unlike a lot of other places.
@afgor1088
3 жыл бұрын
@@tressteleg1 i just looked up the old tram network map and i had no idea how massive it was Clydebank to Uddingston and Clarkston to Bishopbriggs, mental
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately I never saw it as I live in Australia and it was gone by my first trip to the UK in 1975, but certainly the late Roy Hubble, photographer and narrator, got to see much of it as his camera shows. From about the 1930s and especially post-war, scrapping tramways was ‘the modern thing to do’.
@afgor1088
3 жыл бұрын
@@tressteleg1 it was the profitable thing to do and then it had to be sold to us as modern so we'd accept it. car companies wanted to sell cars, oil companies wanted to sell oil and the Tory Transport Minister Ernest Marple's was in charge of a company that literally made roads and then got contracts to construct roads in the UK after we (he) went nuts for them (you can't make this stuff up 😅)
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
No doubt many towns had their own crooks but the simple fact is that the English speaking world almost entirely abolished tramways as well as Spain, France, and a few other countries. After big places like London, Paris and New York got rid of trams, this set a precedent for many smaller places to simply copycat.
@MrBenjenko
3 жыл бұрын
Great video - thank you! I'm currently colouring a photo circa 1950s with a tram and PoliceBox, I had thought the photo was taken in Edinburgh but it may be Glasgow, do you know if Edinburgh had the same trams in the same colour scheme as Glasgow?
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
Have fun with that! Without doubt, the Glasgow colours were unique. If I’m not mistaken, Edinburgh trams were mostly dark brown. Maybe there are videos of them on KZitem, just to check.
@petermolloy6142
3 жыл бұрын
The two cities' trams were not the same colour, by any means. Glasgow’s trams were green, white and orange (any Glaswegian will explain the significance of those colours!) whereas Edinburgh’s cars were a deep purple. And all Edinburgh’s cars were four-wheelers, whereas Glasgow had 4-wheel and bogie cars. And didn’t Edinburgh stay loyal to the trolley-pole? I think so!
@Clavinovaman
3 жыл бұрын
15:52: Indeed. Bothwell being one. Born there. Very nice.
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
😊👍
@chrisb9360
3 жыл бұрын
For a glimpse of some of the same areas in 2021 3:12 - Central Station - Argyle Street - www.google.com/maps/@55.8583325,-4.2564754,3a,75y,298.44h,94.62t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2HwuBGLnwgq3NuP2p-PXxQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 5:37 - Balmoral Street, Scotstoun - www.google.com/maps/@55.879039,-4.352142,3a,60y,38.3h,85.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sB_cWDuTihk8mJKG3EpjBPA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 8:11 - George Square at Queen Street Station - 2018 renovation showing old arch - www.google.com/maps/@55.8613779,-4.2513565,3a,75y,9.11h,89.94t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sEXh0LXrHSWxtDCYdKfg8GA!2e0!5s20180501T000000!7i16384!8i8192 2020 - With new façade - www.google.com/maps/@55.8613918,-4.2513187,3a,75y,9.11h,89.94t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sVwHFIzwKLDSEhY7W61XYiw!2e0!5s20190801T000000!7i16384!8i8192 9:05 - Mosspark Boullevard - www.google.com/maps/@55.8409324,-4.315278,3a,53.7y,293.58h,92.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjILoMoRfrqNL4TLs9TwAew!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 10:25 - Nithsdale Road, Dumbreck - www.google.com/maps/@55.8445828,-4.3097015,3a,75y,74.83h,85.22t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s3-CI6pC_XNu4bodAIc4WdQ!2e0!5s20201201T000000!7i16384!8i8192 12:13 - Great Western Road (Nr Kelvinbridge) - www.google.com/maps/@55.8772953,-4.2881116,3a,75y,103.66h,101.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suA1DJ3nFECxfbtecDhNnSA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 12:26 - Hyndland Road - www.google.com/maps/@55.8825685,-4.3033657,3a,56y,210.45h,97.88t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sG0kiMZRtaHCjHnGceLLJIA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 12:50 - Great Western Road (Nr Anniesland) - www.google.com/maps/@55.8858593,-4.3129157,3a,75y,297.14h,88.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4Wynmg6q7-KhbEotkowvYA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 15:24 - Thornliebank Train Station and surrounding roads - www.google.com/maps/@55.8110791,-4.3125056,3a,75y,43.96h,91.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQdpjdO3NAWLLOpWtnt4LdA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 21:16 - Bilsland Drive, Maryhill - www.google.com/maps/@55.884685,-4.2798648,3a,75y,82.94h,88.88t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1slhqmZzPpQAVXd_x0VtZBdw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 22:45 - Maryhill Road - www.google.com/maps/@55.8795291,-4.2719395,3a,75y,354.9h,91.01t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1spJ49wEYmMYwKvl-9pOY63g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 23:07 - Ye Olde Tramcar Vaults - Formerly the corner of Maryhill Road and Hopehill Road. Now a car dealership - www.google.com/maps/@55.8751461,-4.270803,3a,75y,24.94h,99.01t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sRkdTRWqhFP9Jh4D8RDtX3w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 26:36 - www.google.com/maps/@55.8517104,-4.107672,3a,75y,255.36h,84.8t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLvfirn3i1BaUVcr5hmSyXw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 27:21 - Despard Avenue, Mount Vernon - www.google.com/maps/@55.8497791,-4.1430572,3a,75y,268.3h,80.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sG1THzsbLOoiZj9zM3PB_Pg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 28:02 - Maryhill Road - www.google.com/maps/@55.899575,-4.3035136,3a,75y,317.83h,100.48t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sN3w6y3xhkABmiRkolLp6GA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 29:14 - Parkhead Cross - www.google.com/maps/@55.8512906,-4.1971787,3a,75y,276.96h,92.93t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7d9OudFjoEU-5ixeu5GiMg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 31:11 - Mount Vernon Train station - www.google.com/maps/@55.8400556,-4.1333681,3a,60y,254.96h,92.48t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sU0ye0zcLnxqqgq5yEBtbpw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 32:42 Gt Western Road, Knightswood - www.google.com/maps/@55.9003836,-4.3507546,3a,75y,89.45h,86.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sNv-sWwqRcPy1mVrP_D3N3g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for that! Yes certainly put a lot of work into it. Some places were easier than others to recognise but unfortunately so-called progress changes the appearance of a lot of places in cities.
@patricialaing1479
6 ай бұрын
The year I was born😮
@tressteleg1
6 ай бұрын
Well this has let you catch up with what you missed 😊
@patricialaing1479
6 ай бұрын
Brilliant film.
@tressteleg1
6 ай бұрын
@patricialaing1479 👍😊
@Marco-wz3ff
5 жыл бұрын
are you the narrator?
@tressteleg1
5 жыл бұрын
No. As you will see at the start of the video, the cameraman and narrator was (the Late) Roy Hubble.
@MrPoupard
6 жыл бұрын
6.07 - 6.22 Does anyone know the exact location - it looks familiar but I can't place it.
@nothingisreal8618
5 жыл бұрын
It looks like Scotstoun to me.
@tressteleg1
5 жыл бұрын
You may be right. I would have no idea.
@fyodor48alyosha67
5 жыл бұрын
MrPoupard Scotstoun/Whiteinch on Dumbarton Rd
@s125ish
6 жыл бұрын
Anyone know where cross tops is .?
@Cullenjohnmichael
5 жыл бұрын
s125ish Barrhead. Cross Stobbs. Tis a pub on Grahamston/Paisley Road. Was a bit gutted to hear the track got cut back as I was dying to see what my town looked like back then 🤷♂️
@davebarclay4429
4 жыл бұрын
Cross Stobs is in Barrhead. There is still a pub called the Cross Stobs Inn at the junction of Paisley Road and Grahamston Road.
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
😊
@williamdrummond7687
3 жыл бұрын
Barrhead
@BillFrizzle
2 ай бұрын
Why do we have an Englishman tell us about Glasgow
@tressteleg1
2 ай бұрын
Because that Englishman took the trouble to go out and take these scenes so could narrate exactly where they are, and sometimes background as to why. Perhaps you could ask the question ‘why didn’t any Scotsmen bother to do same or better?’
@alexrankin1046
4 жыл бұрын
I wish my parents were still alive, they were both Glaswegians, and I’d love to show them this footage. They were both still living in the city as a young couple at this time.
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
😊
@MrPoupard
6 жыл бұрын
I'm a Glaswegian. I love watching this. I'm glad you had the foresight to shoot this in August 1959. I was 15 months old then.I would love to enter that world if only for a day.
@tressteleg1
6 жыл бұрын
The late Roy Hubble is the one to be thanked for taking this movie film and for his interesting commentary on what we are watching. All I did was video his movie while he told the stories. It is an outstanding movie film, that’s for sure!
@reverendbluejeans1748
5 жыл бұрын
How was life in the victorian area in Glasgow. It looks amazing.
@robertkerr8205
4 жыл бұрын
I was 13 months old then MrPoupard, but was born in Edinburgh.
@reverendbluejeans1748
4 жыл бұрын
@@robertkerr8205 I would like to go back there for a day.
@robs4988
3 жыл бұрын
A day would be more than enough. I was seven in 1959 and I still remember raw sewage running down the streets and being scared of the rats that were everywhere.
@AM-oe4rk
6 жыл бұрын
I have seen nothing better! absolutely fantastic!
@williamdrummond7687
6 жыл бұрын
Cross Stobs is in Barrhead, the Cross Stob inn is still there on Grahamston road.
@RGC198
4 жыл бұрын
Great video. I actually have a copy of the en tire video, including this section. Roy Hubble did an excellent coverage of the UK tram systems.
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks. I wish he were still around to see all the fine comments made about his work.
@Lepusrabbit
6 жыл бұрын
It's a marvellous film ,
@allymackenzie6198
4 жыл бұрын
Superb cine film my friend. One of the best I have seen, superb detail ,
@wboyle9721
Жыл бұрын
Great footage of Glasgow a great city
@tressteleg1
Жыл бұрын
Yes, but it was even greater before the so-called experts decided that buses were better ☹️
@stevedoubleu99B
4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, narration was great, I realise that you cut probably in order to stop projector noise, but I wouldn't have minded it. Oh for a time machine.......
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
When Roy did not speak for a while the projector noise increased somewhat automatically so I silenced the clip but no words were lost. Here and there a bad splice between scenes was removed but that was just a fraction of a second but otherwise nothing was cut out. Time machine - yes...
@bneon
3 жыл бұрын
The Visionary act of ripping up a complete tram network must be the most baffling act of criminal vandalism and hasn't been exceeded yet , it took years of disruption and mess and inconvenience all for Traffic management and calming to actually make travel worse than it was in the 1950 s medals and awards all round for abject stupidity and shortsightedness surely goes to Glasgow Corporation ( Labour) for years
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately nearly every city in the English speaking world made the same foolish decision believing the trams were outmoded, slow, and blocked traffic while buses would solve all the problems. And so many of those cities have now started putting trams back in but it will never be any more than just in a small way unfortunately. Over your way, Edinburgh has done it but I’m still waiting for Glasgow to make a move.
@joeturner1597
6 жыл бұрын
I remember when the tram museum was moved to Kelvin Hall. I actually took my kids to the old one at Pollkshields. That must have been 30 odd years ago. It has been moved again and the street scene is no more. The car halls have gone too. The cars are on shelves apparently. My grandchildren say it is crap.
@tressteleg1
6 жыл бұрын
+Joe Turner Unfortunately museums have been taken over by the ‘Trendy’ types who think a ‘virtual’ museum is better than one with real exhibits, and a pretty layout with plenty of space around everything is great, even if half the former exhibits are now in storage. Wonderful 😡
@XboxKenny1992
5 жыл бұрын
I am 26 and experienced both the kelvinhall museum and the new one, the new one is terrible, typical of modernist architecture, it has no life to it at all the way old the street scene did at kelvinhall
@elizabethstruthers5820
5 жыл бұрын
Yes it’s rubbish. It was best in the old tram depot Albion Street I think?
@tressteleg1
5 жыл бұрын
I commiserate with you on that, not that I am close enough to ever see it.
@johnjephcote7636
5 жыл бұрын
That's a shame-I did not know that. I also had a shock when most of the London trams were moved out of the Covent Garden museum to their 'store'-is there a conspiracy against the memory of trams operating?
@andrewrussell4707
3 күн бұрын
An excellent documentary, thanks for sharing. Every Saturday I would travel from the south of the city to visit my aunt who lived in Maryhill. I always preferred to get a STANDARD from the centre of the city to Maryhill as the movement you had [tail wagging] would throw you about. In Glasgow, we now have seven tramcars on display at the Riverside Museum that date from 1893 to 1952.
@triodehexode
5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant film . The Tory hatchet men like marples and the road lobby should have been hung as traitors. Imagine how pleasant city life would have been if we had kept this infrastructure used with modern efficient cars.
@tressteleg1
5 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately in the English speaking world, in those days it was the thing to do - replace noisy old trams with modern buses. What a mistake that has proved to be!
@lundsweden
Жыл бұрын
Glasgow 1959: huge trams, tiny subway trains!
@tressteleg1
Жыл бұрын
Certainly true!
@billyjay4672
2 жыл бұрын
That was magic thanks to Roy having the insite and of coarse the money to have this on film.
@tressteleg1
2 жыл бұрын
Sadly Roy is no longer with us which is a pity as I’m sure he would be thrilled to see the response to this film he made. Today’s people with phones capable of taking video images could not imagine that the movie film Roy used would have cost several pounds per minute in today’s money.
@lornamackenzie343
4 жыл бұрын
Great footage of the Glasgow trams around Glasgow. I was born in Glasgow in 1962 the year they were scrapped, a terrible decision.
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
Truly bad decision.
@alastairhopkins245
4 жыл бұрын
And then the railways were axed!!! And now there is the demand for more roads!!! And there is no more space!!!
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
Politicians chase the most votes and think that everybody wants more roads. Too bad for those who don’t have a car.
@patricksmodels
4 жыл бұрын
What fantastic footage and commentary! Congratulations!
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
It certainly is! It’s just a pity that Roy is not around any more to hear all the great comments like your own.
@StevieBluenoseScott
Жыл бұрын
My old Glasgow town, fantastic thanks for this.
@tressteleg1
Жыл бұрын
😊👍
@SaxonSuccess
5 жыл бұрын
Wonderful stuff! I remember riding the trams in Liverpool when I was a young boy. Bumpy and so noisy. It's a memory I'm very pleased to have. What a different world it was, brilliantly portrayed in this film, which is of great historical importance.
@tressteleg1
5 жыл бұрын
You must have got a surprise to see your old trams elsewhere 😊
@SaxonSuccess
5 жыл бұрын
@@tressteleg1 Yes!! I had no idea that Liverpool had sold them on. Whatever was Glasgow thinking, buying those old rattlers?
@tressteleg1
5 жыл бұрын
I think that Roy narrating that video made some comment about the poor standard of those Liverpool trams but I suppose that Glasgow thought they were better than some of their ancient fourwheelers. Who’s to know motives this much later?
@kevinpatrickburke
3 жыл бұрын
8:35 mins in to the film and your in Mosspark. I was minus 9 at this stage (born 68) my family were living in Mosspark at the time of your filming. It's really amazing seeing how the place once looked. If time travel is ever a thing, that's where I'm going. I missed the trams by 6 years, but on Mosspark Boulevard the 'reserve track section' you mention is still there today. It's been earthed over and it's mostly grass now but on that section which ran parallel to the Boulevard you can still see the occasional part of the cobbles along which the No3 would run. I'm currently home in Mosspark and I cross over that former reserved track daily when taking the family dog in to Bellahouston Park. Totally loved watching the film, many thanks. Yours Kevin.
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
I’m pleased that this has explained a bit about your neighbourhood as it was. However I am not the cameraman, but he was a friend until he died in a car accident several years after narrating his work.
@spailpin1902
5 жыл бұрын
I agree, this is a fantastic historical document.
@tressteleg1
5 жыл бұрын
👍
@simongreenidge6454
5 жыл бұрын
1959; Mr. Hubble certainly went the extra mile by using colour film stock. It makes the footage so much more valuable (and enjoyable)!
@tressteleg1
5 жыл бұрын
I think it was 1958 that Roy started with movie film. 1965 for me, but years later so many fans were still taking black and white photos. What do people want to watch today 😊?
@Kirkee7
4 жыл бұрын
Very interesting piece of transport history.
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
Henry Jurkiewicz 😊👍
@smartieplum
5 жыл бұрын
Brilliant film. Loved seeing Parkhead.
@tressteleg1
5 жыл бұрын
👍
@georgeskinner2199
5 жыл бұрын
fantastic.. brought back a s**t-load of memories.. I'll need to share this with the grand-kids now.. good foresight to have done this deed.. I was from Cambridge street, (72) and there in 1956! remember Fusco's?? and how about Danny Dee(a)ny's the pub? Hard to believe so little views though.. get it out there guys..!! had a laugh at a comment about no sound on the film.. in those days if you even had a "brownie" it was high tec.. so the cine camera was yer i-phone 10 of the day.. and if you need to ask about a "brownie" you're definitely not older than 50, but maybe that's another video? great work Ron Hubble..
@tressteleg1
5 жыл бұрын
👍 it was a good video, and Roy’s narration brings it to life as well. Luckily the opportunity to record the film on my brand new video camera and recorder came up and it was done. It is a pity he left us in an accident about 30 years ago. I spoke to his widow only a few days ago. Anyway I hope the grandkids enjoy it also. I never had a brownie but had something no better.
@pdevine1959
3 жыл бұрын
The year I was born. Thanks for posting the colour of the trams are so nice
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
😊👍
@studebaker4217
4 жыл бұрын
Excellent film, many thanks.
@tracyyy99
5 жыл бұрын
This is fantastic !
@tressteleg1
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, Roy Hubble did a great job with his camera and narration.
@tramways_1435
5 жыл бұрын
Magnificent ! Thank you for sharing !
@tressteleg1
5 жыл бұрын
👍
@Clavinovaman
3 жыл бұрын
14:30: Jeeeez...
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
😊
@gary0768
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this film, very rare footage of Thornliebank road at Barrmill road 16:30 - 17:30 where I grew up which has hardly changed in 60 years An excellent rare film Well done!
@tressteleg1
5 жыл бұрын
Pleased that you enjoyed it😊😊
@tressteleg1
5 жыл бұрын
Just looked. Easy to see it. Have fun ‘at home’ today!
@mariedennis4435
4 ай бұрын
A fascinating historical video and an excellent commentary. Thank you for your effort. John Dennis
@tressteleg1
4 ай бұрын
Thanks. It’s just a pity that Roy is not with us to see the acclaim his great movie/video and commentary has created..
@davebarclay4429
4 жыл бұрын
For anyone interested in learning more about Glasgow trams and public transport in Glasgow generally there is an excellent website: www.semple.biz This is the direct link to the page dealing with the actual tram routes: www.semple.biz/glasgow/gct%20tram%20routes2.shtml I have posted this information at the request of tressteleg1 and I have no connection with Mr Semple except for enjoying his excellent site.
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for doing that. Anything that better informs the locals about the efficient trams they once had is a good thing.
@lesliechrol-frolowicz3480
6 жыл бұрын
Wonderful - brings back memories!
@sheilagillan7380
Жыл бұрын
THIS was taken on my last year in Glasgow 1959 i moved to Australia, in 1960
@tressteleg1
Жыл бұрын
I guess you liked it. It’s funny because I am also located in Australia. Roy let me set up my video camera while he played and narrated the movie.
@geecars6263
3 жыл бұрын
I always wondered why there was such a large gap between the road and the fence along the side of Bellahouston Park, now I know!
@seanlookalike
6 жыл бұрын
An absolute gem of a film thank you so much for the upload
@tressteleg1
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks. That Glasgow movie is extraordinary.
@davidpeacock1302
3 жыл бұрын
This has made my night thank you!
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks. It’s just a pity that Roy who narrated and filmed this is no longer with us to enjoy these accolades.
@AlexanderSmith21
4 жыл бұрын
Glasgow corporation colours my great grandfather was a horse drawn tram driver in Glasgow
@petergambier
4 жыл бұрын
Loved the tram names, Coronation, Cunada, ex-Liverpool Green Goddess and Kilmarnock Bogey. There should be electric trams in every city and town, less pollution, noise and cost being just 3 of the many benefits for a town or city. In Munich the single deck trams ran down the middle of the road and had 2 or 3 carriages linked together. During rush-hour the public transport tended to run better than the traffic unless a car parked in the wrong place blocked the route. Cycling a bike can be a hazard if your not careful and I've gone arse over tit onto my face a few times and problems for pedestrians in high heels. The German trams also relied on people's honesty buying tickets from newsagents and Imbiss's or an annual pass. You stamped your own ticket in a machine that was at most stops or on every bus and tram. Sometimes the company would send small teams of 2 or 3 undercover ticket inspectors to catch those without a ticket, it was a fine of about £20 if you got caught cheating. Roy's dodgy footage out of the inspection hatch could have been done better and for longer because I've never seen such a view and was too short. He also found it surprising that there were lots of lady tram drivers and I chuckled when he said 'That's a Coronation driven by a big girl.'
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
I’m pleased that you liked it 😊
@scotttait2197
Жыл бұрын
Theres no St. George's square (naned after king george), , & St George's Cross
@tressteleg1
Жыл бұрын
You must remember that the late Roy Hubble was a Londoner who visited Glasgow only a couple of times, and this off-the-cuff narration was made 25 years later, so slight slips of the memory are to be expected.
@patricialockhart2135
2 жыл бұрын
Fascinating video. The UK made a huge mistakes getting rid of trams.
@tressteleg1
2 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately it was a disease throughout the English speaking world, as well as France, Spain, Greece and a few other countries.
@NEWCASTLE.UNITED.
3 жыл бұрын
Nice touch having Alan Partridge narrate the film.
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
Actually the narrator was the late Roy Hubble who made the movie film. He was named at the beginning.
@elizabethdodsdivers1922
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for getting back to me.
@fyodor48alyosha67
5 жыл бұрын
Anyone remember Copelawhill works ? That’s where they built and refurbished the trams, it went on to be the Transport museum then and until now The Tramway Theatre and arts centre I loved the trams when I was young, I went on to work for the “old corpy “ or rather Corporation transport , which became Strathclyde transport Then First bus . Worked there for forty years !!!! We used to get the tram from Kelvinbridge to Binghams pond . The “pond “ was halved in two when they built the petrol station on gt western rd then Jury’s hotel . Good times Oops another edit... many thanks for the upload The canal bridge bend is Bilsland drive The Old Tramcar vaults was a favourite watering hole, it was commonly known as a “wine shop” which was slang for a lower class place to enjoy a beverage.
@keithconnock6541
4 жыл бұрын
Service 16 did not cease in 1959, it was merely cut back from Springburn to Keppochill Road on 6th September. The rest of the service to Scotstoun ceased on 11/3/1961.
@peteacher52
4 жыл бұрын
I was 11 years old in 1959 and was keenly interested in cars. Most of these are definite spottings but a few a bit doubtful. I now drive, as a hobby car, a 70 year old Jowett Javelin. I was/am always attracted to rail vehicles and note with interest, that some councils are now expressing the view that the willy-nilly removal of tram tracks and catenery may have been premature because (it is admitted) tramcars were a very efficient way of moving large numbers of commuters at rush hour! :-) Col, NZ Isetta bubble car Rover 75 Rover 90 Series 2 Humber Snipe Jowett Javelin 'Beetle back' Vanguard Standard 10 Vauxhall DX Victor Velox and probably Wyvern Anglias Prefects Zephyrs and probably Consuls A30s and A40s A40 Countryman Austin 8s, 10s and 16s A70 Hereford A55 Cambridge Farina Renault 750 Renault Dauphine Morris 8, Series E, Minor high light and low light, Oxford Jaguar Mk 5 Mk 2 Hillman Minx Peugeot 403 VW Singer SM Riley 1500
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
😊👍
@andrewsmith-cm9qw
4 жыл бұрын
fantastic historical footage thank you Roy
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks. It’s just a pity that we lost Roy quite a few years ago.
@andrewsmith-cm9qw
4 жыл бұрын
@@tressteleg1 he has left a fantastic historical visual treat for all glaswegians and students of history to enjoy he certainly left his footprint in glasgows history
@bugie8421
4 жыл бұрын
So beautiful
@larrywinning5183
4 жыл бұрын
I was 13 at that time and used to take the Tram to school. Fantastic wee film Thank you for sharing.
@richiec9077
4 жыл бұрын
Green and orange for Catholic and Protestant , very controversial.....typical of Glasgow city council
@MrPoupard
6 жыл бұрын
7.41 is the junction of St Vincent St and Renfield St. The building with decorative pillars either side of the windows is exactly the same in 2018. Below the "St Vincent St" sign you can see the Malcolm Campbell sign over the fruit and vegetable shop which occupied that corner site for years.
@fares-please
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this. My Dad was from Glasgow and I was always fascinated by his stories of the trams there.
@tressteleg1
2 жыл бұрын
😊👍 Nice to hear.
@-GlasgowsLastTram
2 жыл бұрын
Glasgows famous Coronation trams only four left in the world. One at the Riverside museum Glasgow (static exhibit), and one at the national tramway museum Crich, not running at present. One somewhere in America. The fourth one is under extensive rebuild at Summerlee Museum Coatbridge and will run on our local track.
@tressteleg1
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that. I suppose it’s a bit surprising that as many as four have survived. I did visit Summerlee around 1991 trust that the museum and tramway there are flourishing.
@-GlasgowsLastTram
2 жыл бұрын
@@tressteleg1 museum and tramway are still going strong, there are plans afoot to extend museum and tramway in the near future.
@tressteleg1
2 жыл бұрын
That is good to hear, especially the plans to extend the track. I think it a great pity that vandals got to the little Brussels tram, a 9000 I think. From memory wheels, motors etc were used under one of your local tram bodies, so all was not lost.
@scottyerkes1867
2 жыл бұрын
Very interesting look into old Glasgow trams. Thank you for sharing.😀😀
@Joe_Peroni
3 жыл бұрын
Back around 1960, when I was around 3 years old, we lived in Laidlaw Street. I can remember standing at the bus stop outside the Co-operative building with my mum, waiting for either a tram or a trolleybus! (Mum also worked as a conductress on the Glasgow buses.) As far as I'm concerned, Glasgow was far better back then!
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
😊👍 I was waiting for you to say whether a tram or trolley bus is what you caught that day. We are still waiting… While some cities may be better than they were 60 years ago, unfortunately that is not true everywhere.
@Joe_Peroni
3 жыл бұрын
@@tressteleg1 I've wracked my memory, & it was the TRAM! I recall seeing (while we were at the tram stop) trolleybuses zooming along across the road, in the opposite direction!
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
Well done! That’s something to be proud of. I did visit the Summerlee museum quite some years ago and i think it had a Glasgow tram, but if so it was not running. Otherwise the big tram museum at Critch in Derbyshire would have one or more but whether one is running for a ride when you visit would be another matter.
@petermolloy6142
3 жыл бұрын
@@tressteleg1 The museum is at Crich, with a long “i” sound, and no “t” in the spelling!!
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
@@petermolloy6142 OK.
@theresnobodyhere5778
2 ай бұрын
what a gem that movie , a time when change was about to happen the trams soon went steam was ob way out as well as the stations and tracks ,for all it mattered they took it all away and to this day the place is still the same ,some fancy buildings here and there ,and a shit transport system ,it was criminal to remove the biggest tram network in europe, to this day the the people of glasgow still have,nt got over what they done destroyed the city
@tressteleg1
2 ай бұрын
Yes it is amazing. Unfortunately in the English speaking world, from around the 1930s it was the fashion to replace trams with ‘modern flexible diesel buses.’ Especially after London and New York, other cities soon copied. The fact that the buses could not cope was ignored. Unfortunately it costs an absolute fortune to bring back just one tram line, as Edinburgh found out, even if they do perform well.
@theresnobodyhere5778
2 ай бұрын
@@tressteleg1 i think Edinburgh,s final cost eas around 750million for 15 miles if line , imagine the new trams to replace like for like in Glasgow which had over 180miles of line depot,s ,trams track cables ,,who the Fck kills the goose that lays the golden eggs was madness
@tressteleg1
2 ай бұрын
@@theresnobodyhere5778 Thanks for that. I think there was an unusual amount of incompetence with the construction of the first stage of the Edinburgh tramway, not that some other cities did not also muck things up somewhat, Sydney being another example but I expect that the Edinburgh second stage went much better. But as I said last time, many other cities were equally stupid as Glasgow in scrapping their tramways. Sydney’s tramway was even bigger, but went just the same as it was simply the fashion in those days. Melbourne however is about the only one which remains largely intact with later expansion. Some say it was because the Victorian state government was too mean to buy the replacement buses, thankfully. But it is very much the exception.
@jasperedwards3341
5 жыл бұрын
my gran told me that grandad was a tram driver there too
@tressteleg1
5 жыл бұрын
I guess you never met him. He surely would have some stories to tell!
@jasperedwards3341
5 жыл бұрын
@@tressteleg1 i met him lots of times he only died 2000 2003 my father died 2009 my gran died
@tressteleg1
5 жыл бұрын
Then it sounds like the matter of his Tramway career was never discussed by you. Pity.
@jasperedwards3341
5 жыл бұрын
@@tressteleg1 it was he told me too but he was not that interested he was more into boats
@tressteleg1
5 жыл бұрын
A pity. He surely would have had a heap of great stories of mischief drivers did, like speeding, crashes etc.
@DandamanV
3 жыл бұрын
I can't understand why any city in the world that had trams at this time would have remotely considered removing them. So clean, elegant, and effective!
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately from the 1940s and even earlier in some places, the ‘modern trend’ was to replace noisy old trams which clogged up the middle of the road with ‘modern flexible buses’. And after big places like London, New York and Paris had already made the change, smaller places wanted to ‘catch up.’ Bit by bit many cities are now waking up to the mistake, but not Glasgow.
@eileanvm
4 жыл бұрын
What a fantastic half hour of footage! I remember travelling on the Coronation Trams with my mother. I was born in 1957. I particularly recall passing the old iron railings at Trongate, that protected the island in the middle of Trongate above the subway. I was always fascinated by the seats that you could flip both ways. My mother was a smoker ( as most people were then ), and I remember her striking matches on the metal match-strike plates on the backs of the upstairs seats.
@tressteleg1
4 жыл бұрын
😊👍
@leesmith7274
3 жыл бұрын
so different these days
@tressteleg1
3 жыл бұрын
Most places are, for better or for worse.
@subway007
Жыл бұрын
i often ask myself, why couldnt they have kept a few tram lines ?..the very important ones at that.
@tressteleg1
Жыл бұрын
With few exceptions, throughout the English speaking world starting from the 1930s transport operators fell for the lie that changing old fashioned trams for modern buses buses was progress, and especially after WW2 when many systems were run down after wartime shortages, buying buses was cheaper as well. As London, Paris and New York were rid of their trams by 1960, following suit was seen as the modern thing to do. The cost of putting them back is just too great for most places now.
@subway007
Жыл бұрын
@tressteleg1 that was one hell of a lie for sure!
@tressteleg1
Жыл бұрын
I think the cheapness of a (short term) cheap fix for a worn out tramway was quite an attraction. I gather that more than a few British tramways opened and closed with the very same vehicles, nothing new bought in their 30 or so years of existence. I suppose the track was similarly very tired.
@michaelmcfadden1622
6 ай бұрын
No potholes 😮
@tressteleg1
6 ай бұрын
Presumably they are a problem these days?? 😆😆
@Fyodor48
Жыл бұрын
This is truly an excellent recorded film with eloquent intelligent narration. Despite the chaps that made these films, for their are more of them; being enthusiastic amateur film makers : The finished product is of the very highest standard and these amateur film makers should be ‘officially recognised’ by Glasgow city council if they haven’t already been. These social documentaries are treasures indeed. And for folks of my vintage a real life real time journey down memory lane. For what it is worth, I would like to record my sincere thanks to the families of these gentlemen, your dad’s, brothers, and uncles have done a remarkable job. *You should be very proud of them.*
@tressteleg1
Жыл бұрын
I’m please that you liked it. I just wish it were possible to re-master the film with my film converter. All of this movie was taken by Roy Hubble who unfortunately is no longer with us. It certainly is a good history of Glasgow, at least with an emphasis on the trams. I will send on your appreciation to his widow.
@Fyodor48
Жыл бұрын
@@tressteleg1 thank you I would be most grateful if you were to do that, it would mean a lot to me. As for the 're-mastering' etc, i whilst at one time a keen hobby photographer, much like these chaps were, only less competent! When it comes to anything digital i am utterly hopeless so of zero use to you. That said, i think it excellent quality, i over the years have watched many 're mastered and colorised' old vintage film of the social documentary type, and whilst i used to prefer the original rendering of old b/w social doc uploads , I did come round to prefferingthe updated colorised remastered uploads. thank you so much for keeping these memories alive for us to enjoy, Tis very much appreciated Best Fyodor
@tressteleg1
Жыл бұрын
Your previous posting was sent on and an appreciative reply received. The digital transfer was done by simply pointing my then new 1984 video camera at the screen while the camera ran and Roy narrated. Now have a machine which actually takes a photograph of every frame in the video and composes them into a video sequence. The machine is rather slow, but the results are good. Roy’s original quality was remarkable, and although this version is good, it would be much better done as described above. However the film was donated to I think a company which I suppose may ultimately make DVDs from it. Who knows? To give you some idea of the quality obtainable by that modern method, this video from Melbourne was done that way. Melbourne Trams 1965 - 1983. Silent Movie Digital Remake. kzitem.info/news/bejne/wJ2Zn65oiIVhdH4
@Fyodor48
Жыл бұрын
@@tressteleg1 thank you kindly for forwarding that to his wife; after all the intervening years from Roy making the films to now; I am sure Roy's wife will have a lifetime of memories of their life together, like the rest of us married folks, good memories and the odd not so good, such is the way of life for us mere mortals.... However that said, how lovely it must be for Roy's wife to be able to tune in turen on and listen to Roy's endearing voice which most obviously portrays his love of the topic, and his craftsmanship. Not many of our generation have the opportunity to leave such for posterity, and for our extended family's to enjoy. Not withstanding the utter joy his work brings, and will continue to do so in perpetuity....... *My sincerre thanks to both Roy, and at times i'm sure, his delightful but longsuffering wife (as Roy travels the country making a record for complete strangers to him to enjoy at the time, but also decades later* thank you again tressteleg for your kindness and for the link you left; Tis appreciated Best F
@tressteleg1
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for all of that. I will pass it on to his widow. I’m sure she will,appreciate it.
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