GLASGOW FIRE NEWS - Things MUST CHANGE...

Added: 2026-05-11

[00:00:01]Hello again, my friends, and welcome back to Glasgow City Center. We're heading to the site of the Union Street fire. I've not done a video for quite some time because there hasn't been a lot going on, but I can see there is barricade changes. We can already see closer to where the incident occurred.

[00:00:19]So, the blackout barriers that they had there have been removed for the first time since the Well, look, just as I get here, he's closing them. Open them back up, please, mate. the my one chance to see in. Let me use the zoom. Where the legs can't travel, the lens can. And there you go. Right. Thanks, my friends.

[00:00:37]Right. Anyway, so these businesses, for example, Tesco Express here have been closed since the day of the fire and they will remain closed at least until the end of July and they've come out publicly and said that they are really struggling. Now, I would imagine there is some kind of subsidy in place, some kind of furlow for their staff or removing them and putting them in other stores, but it's still a massive inconvenience. And I'll take you to Union Street where it used to be a hustle and bustle. And let's see if it's still as quiet as it was. And your view at the bottom of Hope Street here as we enter Central Station Underground.

[00:01:18]Wow. Excuse me for the bad language. It wasn't me. And this will take you out through to the four corners under the bridge. Um, it's not the most relaxing of areas, it has to be said at times, but we're sitting on a Monday afternoon.

[00:01:37]Smells like engine oil and hope.

[00:01:42]A lot of construction still going on under here. You can see the signage has to be green to fit in with the uh aesthetics you've got. Even the blue lagoon is green here as you can see there. But looks like they're doing some kind of mosaic style paven. Wow, there's a massive hole.

[00:02:06]Jewelry workshops, tickets. You can buy your gig tickets up there. And the four corners up here, which takes you to our G Street, the Glasgow. four corners with your McDonald's. This is going to be I think the planned on property above and retail units at the bottom here. Your KFC and your Canadian Tim Hortons. So, Union Street, which used to be very much more busy than this, but since the fire incident, it is quite quiet. But let's have a look up at the top end and see if we can see anything going on at the the site of the Union Street fire. There is some beautiful old buildings still here.

[00:02:44]There's CE X where you can trade in your property and sometimes, you know, I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to don't want to be liable for anything.

[00:02:53]But yeah, we have an ambulance here.

[00:02:56]There is the Renie Macintosh Hotel which is not opened to the public for bookings. Uh there is many hotels in Glasgow that are not opened to the public for bookings currently and I'm going to do a video on that soon. Uh it won't be in any way given my opinion on anything because I don't know enough perhaps when I investigate it. I might form an opinion, but I would rather yourselves just observe unedited and see what is going on through your eyes and through your ears from the footage that I'll take and you can make up your own mind. One more opinion as in mine ain't going to make no difference, but the footage unedited and unbiased will show as it is. Glasgow city center as it is.

[00:03:47]Now, we can't really see much going on here. As you can see, these barriers, these blackout barriers would hopefully be removed at some point soon, but yeah, the businesses next to the incident site are struggling because people just aren't coming up here to pass through to get to Central Station, which means all these businesses are suffering footfall issues. So, this is a big problem. They won't receive any kind of subsidies because they're still functioning, but their staff, I'd imagine, are being their hours will be being reduced because of the lesser footfall. And it's a changed street. This street was very, very busy. But now, even at peak time on a Monday, still very quiet.

[00:04:39]Now, it's not just the businesses that are closed due to the barricade. New businesses have opened in Gordon Street and businesses that are functioning in Union Street and here because footfall has been redirected. People aren't coming across these new businesses and they're going elsewhere because it's not exactly fantastic environment to sit in.

[00:05:02]So the businesses that are closed can't function at all and businesses that are being redirected as far as footfall um they're struggling too.

[00:05:21]The Grand Central Hotel had recently or in some years ago extended the rooms and there was a small area where they created a partition right here that connects to the building in Union Street that went on fire. And that partition acted as a fire break because it was a cavity. And if it wasn't for that cavity, the chance of the fire spreading through into the adjacent connected Grand Central and Central Station building here might have occurred, which imagine the horrors if this building, this beautiful building had went as well. That would have been you know it's a tragedy as it is but if this building had went and central station that's you know that's a long time of the city mourning Glasggo Street. Stunning old buildings most of them probably banks. Well that one is still a bank off limits. uh because it keeps getting his windows smashed there as you can see and some what to me looks like Venetian influenced.

[00:06:38]I just make stuff up as you know most of it's wrong. Um but beautiful beautiful architecture and pretty well maintained and of course you've got that horrific little gable construction that they've put in there which is horrible.

[00:06:56]So I think [music] on the moon on the So, as we move onwards and upwards like this fella up the ladder. Now, when you're climbing a ladder, you want to make sure it's against the right wall.

[00:07:36]That's the main thing I've learned as I've got older. I spent most of my life climbing ladders only to realize when I got to the top, it was up against the wrong wall. But with that said, my friends, I'm taking you on an adventure very soon. We're going to move onwards and outwards quite far. And I hope you watch it. It won't be Glasgow, but I'll make sure it's interesting for you and I'll give value because you give value to my life. That is why I am doing it.

[00:08:01]But I hope you have a great day. I hope you have a great night and I'll catch you in the comments.