It's fascinating seeing the town before I was born. This is the Greenock my Dad remembers growing up. So many people and shops. Not much of either now.

fantastic i was born 1956 this made me greet well done

First ever football match . Cappielow Oct 1970. Bobby Collins playing for Morton . A teenage Joe Jordan came on as a sub .!! The school friend I went with that day died in an accident in 1981. I've had 40 years more than he got. But I still remember that day . RIP Gordon 🙏

I was born in Greenock my dad worked at Lithgows so did my Granda my dads dad...im hoping to come back and see it...i know its changed but its where I'm from I'm proud of it...

Good that it started at one end of the town and worked its way West in order - a lot easier to work out where places were rather than just a jumble of pics 👍

I was born in greenock gibshill my parents also lived in branchton road and angus road

My Dad took me to the Odeon to see my first film Castaway with Hayley Mills, my Dad went to sleep 😂

It was a little down at heel in places but still much better looking than it is now. It had some character, at least. So many lovely old buildings replaced by roads, concrete and glass. My mum worked in some of the old places as a young woman in the 1940's - Marks and Spencer, The Tontine Hotel and the Kings Theatre (was that The Odeon in this film?). She used to tell me lots of stories about Greenock when I was little, I enjoyed hearing them but I wish one of us had written them down. Some of them are just hazy memories now and she died last year so I can't ask her. She'd have loved this video. She had a school friend called Bessie Keegan and another called Maria something, an Italian name I've forgotten (I keep thinking Ciccone, but maybe thinking of Madonna?). Her parents owned a confectioners and chip shop IIRC. She had another schoolmate who died (with her Mother) in the Greenock blitz, I think her mother was disabled and couldn't go to the shelter and her Daughter stayed with her 😢. Mum went to St Columbas High school in Peat Road. Teachers she spoke about were "Soapy" Hudson, Miss McCurdy or Mr?) and various nuns she wasn't fond of. Born in Manse Lane, lived in Carnock Street, then when bombed out, moved to Crawberry Road. Apart from the rump of Carnock Street I think they're all gone. Anyone remember the Bamford family in Carnock Street? The 1930's and 40's so probably not much chance of anyone left from that era. Thanks for sharing this ❤

Wonderful, like a time warp!. Simpler, happier times, and a lot less cars around!. No global warming, no mobile phones, no Covid!.

I am traveling to Greenock to visit with a friend next spring..so looking forward to it

Great video. It looks to me like the Oak Mall and flyover destroyed the whole look of the town centre.

These photos were taken by my great grandfather. My mother is in a couple of them as a little girl walking with her mother.

Fond, but sad, memories of a thriving, working town. Many independent retailers plus cinemas and other leisure facilities providing excellent service and not a drop of litter on the streets. What went wrong?

John S Phillips.... I got my first bike there 👍🏻

That video definitely brought back old memories and it gave me a bit of a scare and how long ago it was my grandkids will be shocked to see it, as for clean street I seen the guy with his brush and barrow in one of the pics👍

As I was growing up, this was going. I never really appreciated what had been till this video. All I knew were the roads and that mini flyover where the A8 meets the A78. Not pretty. I well remember the Scott Lithgow crane and it heaving into view as you reached Port Glasgow. Now that's gone and there's a Tesco. At least the Comet was put back beside the car park, but even that's gone now.

My family is from greenock Scotland. I’ve heard stories of them being ship builders. Last name Tierney which is typically Irish. Couldn’t find much more info on them. Would love to learn more.

Awesome! I love it!....But? Woolworths? As a young 17yr old, student, I worked there, part time, unloading the lorries.

Would be helpful to show street names for us born before 60s.

Life was simpler back then Sunday morning going for papers, not so many cars whizzing past you crossing roads was safer back then.

What happened?

"Knock it down and put a road through it," he said.

Crazy thing is doesn't even look much different now

Hasn’t changed much except dirtier and emptier.