That always drunken and horrible Saturday night. ibid. commentary
We’ll show them a slick new upmarket Glasgow, eh, Provost? Rab C Nesbitt s1e3: City of Culture, on council building steps, BBC 1990
I’m talking the Govan dust bowl. Pheobe, I’m scum! Rab C Nesbitt s1e5: Offski
If the judges think they’ve closed the files on the Ice Cream wars they’re wrong. For six years we’ve been uncovering the full extent of a conviction that disgraces Scottish justice. And now at last we can reveal it: it began one winter’s evening 14 years ago in the bleak outer suburbs of Glasgow. Trial & Error: The Glasgow Ice Cream Wars, Channel 4 2014
There was a war on: In Easter week 1984 he [Doyle] was murdered, so were five other members of the Doyle family … We believe that those responsible have never been brought to justice, and that two men innocent of it have already spent a decade behind bars. ibid.
The travelling vans provide a necessary service: there’s money in a van round. ibid.
The Glasgow Ice Cream Wars trial started at Glasgow Crown Court in the Autumn of 1984. The trial did not run smoothly … It was to find brothers [TC] Campbell and [Joe] Steele guilty. ibid.
A conviction which depended so heavily on the word of criminal informants … Campbell and Steele were convicted on evidence which by the law’s own logic simply could not be true. And the system which convicted Campbell and Steele had held in its own files for twelve long years the evidence which could have freed them. ibid.
There are five ways to prove William Love is a deliberate liar. ibid.
Art is a fragile thing. On 23rd May 2014 the Glasgow School of Art was grievously damaged by fire. The building was the inspired creation of the Scottish artist and architect Charles Rene Mackintosh. His library, one of the most beautiful rooms ever designed, was lost to the flames, savaged, cremated, gone. Four years later, unbelievably, the fire returned. Mackintosh: Glasgow’s Neglected Genius, BBC 2018
One of the most important buildings in the world. ibid.
In the 1960s his work festered in derelict buildings. ibid.
There was something about the design madness that everyday Glasgow loved. ibid.
The Mackintosh look, the emerging Glasgow style, found favour with a rebellious group of artists on the other side of Europe – they were called the Secessionists. ibid.
An uncompromising genius – a man who could be a nightmare to work with. ibid.
No, if you want to kill yourself, what you do is you stand somewhere wet, get yourself a good earth, then plug yourself into the mains. That’s what I was going to do. Woof! … There’s got to be more to life than committing suicide. That Sinking Feeling 1979 starring Tom Mannion & Eddie Burt & Richard Demarco & Alex Mackenzie & Margaret Adams & Kim Masterton & Danny Benson & Robert Buchanan & Drew Burns & Gerry Clark & Anne Graham et al, director Bill Forsyth, gang in jam-jar
We’re sitting on a goldmine. Or should I say a steel mine. A stainless steel mine. Look, what’s this area famous for? What’s it well known for? Sinks! Stainless steel sinks. Hundreds of them up at Martin’s warehouse. Sinks worth a fortune. ibid. Ronnie to gang
I’ve come to Glasgow: it’s one of the poorest cities in the whole of the UK … Levels have actually fallen thanks to progressive action by the Scottish government. 60 Days on the Streets III, Channel 4 2019
On an average night around 30 people sleep rough in Glasgow compared to more than 1,000 in London. ibid.
Central Station – at the heart of Glasgow for 140 years. Meet the people who make the station work running over 950 trains a day for 32 million passengers a year. Inside Central Station I, BBC 2020
‘The word just gets out, like Snapchat Messenger and stuff: we just get on a train and then get some nice sun in, to be honest.’ ibid. birds aboard for seaside
And in 1998 every single one of the 48,000 panes of glass was replaced. ibid.
For generations Glasgow Central has been the gateway to hundreds of destinations across the country. More than two million Scots of working age live within a hour of the city centre. Inside Central Station II
‘You need to be thick-skinned in this game. We have various ways of dealing with it.’ ibid.
Glasgow Central first opened in 1879. Until then passengers had to use Bridge Street Station on the south side of the city. ibid.
Six different train companies operate out of Central Station. And between them they employ about 500 staff. ibid.
‘Monday is pigeon counting day. I’m going to count pigeons.’ Inside Central Station III, station worker with clipboard
It is the start of the summer holidays and Central Station is busier than ever. Trains from Central take passengers to over 220 destinations all over Britain. Today things aren’t going to plan. Inside Central Station IV
The annual Pride march beings tens of thousands of people into Glasgow to walk in and watch the colourful parade and events. Inside Central Station V
Cancellations test the patience of passengers … On the station’s main concourse the countdown to the evening rush hour has begun. Passengers are gathering but the trains are not where they are supposed to be. Inside Central Station VI
Report on Certain Cases of Plague Occurring in Glasgow in 1900 by the Medical Officer of Health. The Great Plague: Outbreak, public archives, Channel 5 2020