I loved living in Cumbernauld. We moved there in the early sixties.

Left Cumbernauld when I was 28, and have been away 19 years now, yet I still catch myself nearly saying "Cumbernauld" when anyone asks where I'm from. I don't know if it is peculiar to folk who grew up in Cumbernauld in the 60s, 70s, and 80s (my husband doesn't seem to have the same sense of belonging to where he grew up) but I suspect I will always be "from Cumbernauld". Or maybe I stand alone in my seemingly unbreakable attachment to the town. It's not as if it was some great utopia, goodness knows it had its flaws, but it was almost as if - well if no one else is going to see the best in it and love it, then we surely will. It's our town. ....but that was back then, back when, and now the reasoning is just as hazy and tinted with age as some of this footage. I did enjoy this reel of way back when in the place that seems to be forever in my default settings as "home". (Not that I ventured that far away. I did only go from North Lanarkshire to South Lanarkshire).

Your comments about attachment are soo accurate.I too feel that way having left Cumbernauld..to settle in Belfast,another Town that has been ridiculed and stigmatised by dogma... for me Cumbernauld had a sort of niave charm thats difficult to describe..yes the town planners imposed a bleakness of architecture, brutalism in concrete and roughcast a missed opportunity to turn a blank canvas into a masterpiece ...( we lived in Torbrex and the flatroofs a conceptual disaster for example) .cost restructions led to cramped housing in a place where open spaces were the unique selling point.. all that potential was squandered ..but Cumbernaulds biggest asset were the people..we had great neighbours and a sense of community.. there was a frontier mentality new beginings for young families, a modern utopia was the concept, but it always remained just out of reach and elusive I think thats why so many people have a powerful sense of attacment IMO... to the town..in the ebd ..yes Cumbernauld is flawed,but it provided a fantastic landscape for exploration and adventure, a safe place for kids and families.. the main flaws were the result of short sightedness and lack of creativity and innovation by the town planners...a real golden opportunity missed... but Cumbernauld people always have a place in their heart for the place

hi great videos i have watched a few of yours. i have to say i have known of the theory of cumbernaulds place name since i was about 12 and even then i was never convinced. if you imagine the place 1500 years ago are you really going to name it after a couple of the many small streams when there are huge hills and valleys around you? After all streams do run into each other all over the country. So i have a theory on the origins and go easy as it is my own theory but i think the place is named after the wilderness brae hill and the valley of cumbernauld glen and i think it's name is from brythonic welsh and not scots gaelic. My theory is .. "cwm-bryn-allt" the cwm means valley, the bryn means hill and the allt means wooded hillside. I can't help but feel the huge features of the glen and the wooded wilderness brae would be a better reason to name the place than some very small burns. ps i would also add that they say condorrat means also the meeting of rivers and i think both these theories for cumbernauld and condorrat were from the same person, i just can not be convinced on this unfortunetly

11.56 with the bus where is that??