Sightseeing-Bus in Glasgow City| UK| City Tour Bus

[Music] this station takes people out to the east and the north of the city [Music] but this area actually used to be a quarry where the blonde sandstone came from before it was a station as i say i would encourage you if you do get a chance today and you do have some time try to have a walk along this area of the city with the old buildings just on the right hand side and get a chance to look at through the pink sandstone bleeding you're right brought from india and actually the sea temple itself was basically publicly funded it was a sikh community in scotland that basically paid for the building of the temple and it's now the largest place of religious worship in scotland beautiful looking building and as i say very much in this area this is where you can see the fact that glasgow saw itself very much as the second city of the empire a lot of the road names street names in this area reflect more london probably than you would imagine so we've got things like barkley street we've got the royal crescent and if you look at the area straight ahead of us this area is known as chaining cross which i'm quite sure you'd be more associated with london than you would with glasgow and the red sandstone buildings that you can see carrying across mansions although they are still tenements they're more the upper class tenements very much more meat than the normal tournaments looking to your left this little terracotta fountain um the fountains were built in glasgow back in the day when they started getting water from a walk cartoon and i told you about how bad the conditions were inside the tenants in some places and this was to encourage people to drink this pure clear water and walk catching um where they had all the fountains around about the city it was either a matter to stop the waters from drinking too much whiskey i don't quite know what was the video story there stop 18 is next and that's for the royal highland fusiliers museum and the beresford building also it's a scope for the natural library and this is us on another very famous street in the city this is sucky hall street and sucky hall means medal of world trees so again reflecting that this area used to be very very brutal for the beresford building and you can see it up ahead there is on the left-hand side the cream building it's actually cream and red looks like an old-fashioned cinnamon and actually that was the intention it was built originally as a hotel but for the empire exhibition um the royal fusiliers museum just on our left hand side now on your right hand side [Music] as we go along this part of the old street and this part more restrooms bars and there is another purchase of the obviously which is the pedestrian area the shopping area it's not 19 is next for what was the school of art the school bar involved in a terrible fight a few years ago but if you look up to your left-hand side up the street here you'll see the scaffolding round about the building which was the glasgow school of art we're hoping to bring back to its former glory uh but it's going to take a few years before that birthday reopens again looking up to your left you can see the site where you go onto and if you look straight ahead give you a view of the pedestrian precinct the shopping area of the city on the right hand side the white building there's a black sign outside macintosh at the willow that's the site of the mrs constance tea rooms and again on our right the glasgow film cemetery quite an interesting old cinemas opened in 1939 and back in these days there was actually over 200 cinemas in the city at that particular point and the people of glasgow couldn't understand why they were going to own yet another cinema but they couldn't understand either why that cinema was going to show foreign language films they just didn't get their heads throughout the fact that people spoke other languages i've had from last weekend and but it's still here and it's still involved in our film festival glasgow film festival held every february which is the third largest in the uk moving into the theater area of the city now stop number 20 is next thing that sits outside the royal conservatoire of scotland now the royal concerns one actually took over from the royal scottish academy of music and drama and this was actually to offer students higher level degrees in music and the arts of course some of our famous actors attended the royal conservatory and people like david tennant was doctor who james mcilroy and more recently if you've been watching line of duty richard madden also attended the royal conservatoire of scotland stop number 20 is for the royal conservatoire also for the theatre royal and the hiking center and the pavilion theater [Music] you can see the car itself where it's just around the left-hand side you can see the support is a bit moving this time and this is uh number twenty [Music] [Music] my so as we cross over the lights here if you look up to your left hand side you see the white building of the theatre royal and this is the home of a scottish opera and scottish valley also if you're interested in bagpipes or national instrument there is the piping center just up at the very top of the street up here so as i see definitely there's a means of seatedly in the city at the moment so the royal the white building and right off of the top here this little one sounds good that's the painting center there coming up on the right hand side at the pavilion theater this is one of the old variety theaters in the city and the interesting thing about it was back in the day they decided to build it with a roof that could open now you might think why would they do such a thing in glasgow is to build a theater [Music] [Music] they forgot of course they were doing this in glasgow we had the weather in the winter it's not really on that great so it's not being open that often and it's live in the right hand side we have city world the tallest cinema in the world it has six floors eighteen screens and you can see on the right-hand side here a list of all the different films that are showing at this moment in time stop 21 is next and that is for the canon galleries for the canon's bus station and for the royal concert hall the royal concert hall just from our right hand side here and if you keep looking to your right hand side again you see the symbols of sleep mongol the fish the tree the garden the bell this is mongolia on the top and on the left-hand side us station life in glasgow now uh so services the local buses but also if you want to travel anywhere in the uk across the system in town just behind that you can see our third university glasgow caledonian university and on the right hand side we have with canada's another one of the big shopping indoor shopping areas in the city joined with the flagship store of the year moscow caledonian university again around 60 000 students studying there things like midwifery business and i t the popular subjects there so we're heading back to george square to our stock number one what season running around in the 20 minutes today and we'll be setting back up around once we get back into george square so lots of different methods of transport in the city we've got bosses we've got our sightseeing taxis trains we've also got a small underground in the city as well right man he marched let's open the hillary martial this is the main canvas building here um this is actually what used to be the food technology called and but the city of glasgow college tends to let students study for vocational subjects so things like hairdressing when people want to be chefs or waiters and this is the ecology we come to this street was once known as the street of learning because it had so many colleges and i had a school on it as well and over in our right hand side we have our second university nebraska this is the university of strathclyde and this also started life off as a colleague and the anderson institute and the things that were studied there were things like engineering business very much subjects that are still studied at the university today looking straight ahead of this you can see the growing roofs of the royal infirmary and finally just another one for hospital and this is where joseph alistair came up with the idea of using carbolic acid to sterilize operating equipment as he started to wonder why so many of the patients were dying and it wasn't because of the operation itself it was because of sepsis infections and so he used carbolic acid to sterilize the operating equipment which improved people's life chances and of course that was used all around the world looking straight ahead the building to the right of the royal infirmary with the green roof on it that is a glasgow cathedral and the building you see there built around about the 12th century but this is an area where st mongol who is the patron saint of glasgow he had his first church in this area back in the sixth century now the glasgow cathedral itself has another floor on the lower floor and the lord has 22 little chapel areas with the head um yeah if you look straight ahead you can see the lamp standards there and you can see the symbols of the lamp standards the fish the tree the bird and the bell and you'll see these all around the city in fact even on the bus shelters you'll see the birth the tree the fish and the well behind the cathedral you can see the two stones in the distance up in the hill this is an area of the city known as the necropolis and there's over three thousand two stones up there very ornate some of them they say there's over fifty thousand souls actually built in the building and acropolis and you can actually get a walk through the tombstones there there's a little pathway in the bridge um but there's quite a steep climb if you want to walk off to the top of the hill there that actually used to be a public car before it was used as a cemetery also in this area a couple of other interesting buildings directly to our right hand side you're going to see the side of the building here we have glasgow's oldest house and diagonally opposite on the right on the other side of the road you'll see what looks like an old building and this is our museum of religious life and art but it's built in the shape of what was the bishop's castle which was situated on that side and glasgow became a great place for pilgrimage back in the day of cinema so many pilgrims visited the city so stop number two is coming off pretty much with the dangers across us from this house you can see the house just in our left hand side days back to 1471 this house that said mary queen of scots spent a few nights in there so stop number two for glasgow cathedral and this probably one of the oldest areas in the city this people is high street just coming off the right hand side and you'll see one of the murals in the city this is a modern depiction of sun mongol and it's in bringing a bird back to life by the australian artist sam bakes and we'll see another one of those in europe a little bit later on in the tour stop number three is next for the glasgow queen's museum on the right in the left hand side examples of the tenement buildings and if you look where the numbers are if you look to the right hand side number 251 you can see the entrance ways and in glasgow that's called the course so you go in the close and you go up the stairs and glasgow had this idea that commercial premises will be situated on the street level areas and the residential apartments of hubbard so we're going to close it up the stairs to the flats coming up in our left-hand side an area of the city known as college one and this is where glasgow university's original buildings were university itself started back in 1451 and at the very start of it the classes were actually held in the crypt of the cathedral before they built the buildings here um the university then moved over to the west end in the 1870s and you'll see that building a bit later right hand side in natural city and as i say coming up to stop number three for the next city and this is where the tobacco lords of glasgow this is where they have their businesses and their homes and the merchants over the tobacco lord's brought enough a lot of wealth to the city they all fell asleep maybe now the nicest of people that certainly brought a lot of business to the city looking straight ahead the tallest steeple the tower in the middle of the road part of what used to be a much larger building and the tall bus itself was built in the 1600s and as i say at one time this was the council building this is where the city council ran the city of glasgow but it was also where the tobacco lords paid their taxes also the site of the jail in glasgow at one point and in the right-hand side you've got a road called the tron gate gates meant way too so tron gate was the way to the tron the toronto was the weighing scales for the merchants to weigh their goods to find out how much tax to pay on the left hand side the road is the gavel gate which is the way the gal was situated right beside the prison so looking on our left hand side in front of us you can see the monument there with the unicorn on top of it and this is a market cross and you'll find these all over scotland and these just signify that the town or city can hold markets or they can trade so we're going to head along the gallagher to our stop number four which is for the various weekend market and glasgow's oldest sweet shop we're going to go underneath one of the old railway bridges with your sea scattered all around glasgow on the right hand side a little park here with a halfway with different colored strips on it and each one of these strips names of an artist or a band that played at baraland's music venue on the left hand side on the building where one of the three murals 24 really connolly's 17th [Music] four birthday well as the viola lands market the oldest speech shop um this was a russian family who were on the way to america so they saw it they got in the boat and the people in the boat took them all in glasgow they've remained here ever since and it's one of the grand daughters who still runs at the shop today so stop number four for a good one sweet shop on the left and if you look straight ahead you'll see the red actually of the battle's weekend in the market so stop number four this is the old oldest shops here in glasgow and it's still alive ah so this is the tablets and macarons is this what julie says [Music] oh yeah let's come down here [Music] side the banners weekend market oh my loving stars will be sunday they say if you're looking for something and you can't find it come to the barras you'll definitely get it there although the youngster read a slightly different story it was a case that we'd been unfortunate enough to have anything stolen from ourselves or our house or our car maybe the caves that come up to the ladders of the weekend looking straight ahead we've got one of the plenty of public parks that we have in the city this is one of the largest this is glasgow green and it's the oldest public park in britain and it's used for sports leisure and entertainment as all the parks are now we're going to head up towards our stop number five which is for the people's palace and the derby fountain if i could just ask you just be careful as we go through this area on the outside some woods behind itself to say it was used more recently in the last few weeks as a fan zone but has also been used for the transmit music festival and the world pipeline championships which was every year on the last weekend now stop number five the people's palace only open two days a week at the moment uh wednesday and thursday and this is the social history museum of last weekend's from 1850s to present day also at this stop if you look straight ahead of you you can see the large terracotta fountain the largest terracotta fountain in the in the world the dualton fountain made for queen victoria's golden jubilee you can see victoria standing on the top underneath our handmaidens below that we have soldiers from england scotland and ireland and down at the bottom there we've got representatives of the commonwealth behind that the very ornate building templeton's capital factory and the people in this area were very concerned when they said they were going to build a factory here because it's such a lovely area and this eventually was the design that was chosen alice in venice and the people's panel is just in our leg and this is us coming to stop number five for glasgow green a lot of our friends and family but there were very few were these highlanders they realized in glasgow sometimes it rains so what they did instead was they met up under this railway station bridge station if you look along to your right hand side you'll see that healing moon's umbrella so-called because of the highlanders met up there in that video the building in front of us on the right hand side this is part of the central station building fantastic building if you get a chance to walk through it um one of the largest station carries around 29 million passengers per year and when it's running at full operation stop number eight is just outside at the radisson blue hotel which is just on our left-hand side and this particular building was the winner of a competition um as they go into the iconic building standing in this very iconic street in glasgow this is argyle street now kevin street used to be one of the longest streets in the city and not so much now as they actually chopped into to build the emmy through it but it was named after the duke of argyll and the duke of our girl's funeral possession actually started a way along with the marks and spencers near the along with the trongy and came all the way out to the west end of the city the main part of our gale street the shopping area is behind us there a pedestrian precinct that links up with the cannon street and sucky hall street to make the style mile or the golden sea of shopping in roswell [Music] as you can see development all happening in this particular area [Music] and coming up to the next set of traffic lights as we go over these traffic lights look down to your left hand side and what you'll see there is the fronts of the old warehouse buildings that used to be in this area just down there and all this area used to be covered in weird housing this is where the tobacco lords got all their their goods dropped off with all warehousing in this area just ahead of us in the left-hand side a very strange looking building county garden house now kenticorn is saint molino's sunday name that was his good name if you like and this is actually a ministry of defense building just in the left and it holds all the military records of everybody served in the british military but it's unusual in the fact that the way it's shaking that shake that when they say to stop too much sunlight getting in to reduce traffic noise and they also say that the building itself is bomb proof i have no idea how we tested that cd however that's came together the build this up building on our right hand side this used to be a bus station as a shopping center now unfortunately it was just too far away from the main shopping area to become popular so our card parking in office area coming up to our stock number eight for the marriott's hotel sorry stop number nine for the night [Music] in the city but certainly a very functional part of the city this is the m8 motorway that runs all the way from ender and the east is through to greenwich in the west and the bit that we're going to go under is actually called the kingston bridge now this was owned by the queen brother and it was built to withstand around 20 000 vehicles per day this bridge now takes between 150 and 170 000 vehicles a day and i can see people nervously looking off the way it's all right many years ago they did seven years work of strengthening to strengthen us but if you look up the way now you can see all the bulbs and things that were put in this was actually put in while traffic was still running so for the bridge it drove was absolutely crazy for years but it means that the kingston bridge is now serviceable into the future straight ahead another one of the murals swimmers and divers another one painted by the australian sandbags and this was painted for the commonwealth games back in 2014 is to the right of it again warehousing as you can see some redevelopment has started to take place we've got the daily record sunday mail which is the scottish newspaper over on this side on the other side of the water an area known as the key and this used to be the kingston dock which was filled in for the bridge to be built and so the bridge took the dots name but that's just very similar to some cinemas over there on this side of the launch of a mixture of residential and workplaces our next stop is stop number seven and that's for the finishing clay and the kaidah ridge and if you look straight ahead of us now you'll just about see the tip of the finishing train coming into view and on our left hand side you'll see the koid arc bridge and please don't ask anybody in glasgow where the clays are bridges they won't be able to tell you because in glasgow we call this the squinty bridge and it's squinty because it's not built straight across the water it's still unable to miss the building on the other side so we've got the springy bridge we've also got the squiggly bridge but if you look straight ahead we've got a building that's called the clyde auditorium which is known as the armadillo so this is us coming to our stop number 10 for the north and southwest under you can see the red sandstone building the round one here was a matching one over on the other side of the water and this is the original site of the very first coined tunnel there were three walkways underneath two for horses and cars one for pedestrians and you'll go in there get lord down walk through the tunnels and come up on the other side you'll see that just in a minute on our left hand side left hand side you'll see the other rotunda just on the other side of the water there and on our left the finnish mccain and although the clyde was known for ship building this particular train wasn't involved in building ships this was involved in loading steam engines onto ships which then took them all around the world come into the scottish events campus on our stop number 11 now this is also the stop for the science center and if you do want to visit the science centre you can see on your left hand side there's a little blue bridge you would walk over the bridge and turn right i'll take you over to the science center and still be living as i say for the three buildings all the events come first there are no the message center and the sec high look at flows bbc scotland and there's the arch bridge there is the tv station in the corner if you look straight ahead to the right of us that you'll see our chambers building which is where the city council walked the business today but this is us coming back to our stop number one now and as i say we will be leaving again in around 10 minutes if you're staying with us if not i hope you have a great day in glasgow and enjoy your visit to the city thank you very much for listening thank you [Music] you

2021-08-16 01:40

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