Glasgow: A City Made From Miracles!

Glasgow is a city of miracles and has been since its birth. Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey looks at Glasgow history from its origins and finds that it's foundations are not only miraculous, but exotic.

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Scotland History Tours is here for people who want to learn about Scottish history and get ideas for Scottish history tours. I try to make videos which tell you tales from Scotland's past and give you information about key dates in Scottish history and historical places to visit in Scotland. Not all videos are tales from Scotland's history, some of them are about men from Scotland's past or women from Scotland's past. Basically the people who made Scotland. From April 2020 onward I've tried to give ideas for historic days out in Scotland. Essentially these are days out in Scotland for adults who are interested in historical places to visit in Scotland.

As a Scottish history tour guide people ask: Help me plan a Scottish holiday, or help me plan a Scottish vacation if your from the US. So I've tried to give a bit of history, but some places of interest in Scotland as well.

[PaulEcosse]

Happy Birthday to Glasgow. 850 years old this year.

[christinahunter]

3rd generation Scot here, Great Grandmother from Glasgow...AMAZING channel
proud as ever! Thank you so much!
🦄🦄🦄🦄💫💫💫💫

[forgelefemme]

I wish my Gramma was alive to experience your channel. She used to tell us stories of Scottish history, traditions etc. Love your channel Bruce

[annabellamarston]

Good morning Bruce from Jamaica. The burial by the Molindiner was one of the stories of Mungo that I was taught at primary school in Glasgow in the 1940s.We were also taught about the coat of arms and the rhyme about the symbols. I have heard that it is no longer taught in schools My grandad and other family members lived for 60 years in the building that carries the St Mungo mural. And many buried in St, Kentigern cemetary. It makes me feel connected .

[melissavancleave]

Goid morning. YouTube always has Bruce front and center on Saturday mornings. Thank you Sir for another great video.

[CaptainGlasgow]

I've lived in Glasgow all my life and I have never heard before of St Enoch being a Princess, I feel most enlighten, Thanks 😁😁👍

[torrance]

I'm an elder ginger (though now mostly white) haired American who has visited many major cities around the world. Glasgow is my favorite city. What I enjoy is that Glaswegians actually speak to visitors and are interested in other people. I met a cab driver who told me all about his granny who had moved to the Stares and was then the oldest resident of Boston, Massachusetts. I must look like a local because visitors will ask me for directions, which I sometimes know. A wonderful place.

[alansmithee]

A'reyt Bruce. A little bird told me there was something fishy with that story, but it rings a bell.

[enidsnarb]

I loved playing at The Hug And Pint in Glasgow twice ! The first time was right after the vote to break away from England completely had failed and young guy opening up had already written a song about it called “I Come From The Land Of The Weak” which was an ironic title . We walked to the Botanical garden the next day and it was a wonderful experience!

[raydriver]

You’ve got rather good at this story telling Bruce. Please don’t stop - I’ve become addicted 🌞

[EKcyclist]

Bruce, another superb video! As a Glaswegian, it’s always nice when someone says nice things about my city, so thank you very much. They two pellets who didnae know which way to go when you were filming up at the Cathedral were clearly fae some dark, scary place…….mibbe Lanarkshire……mibbe Renfrewshire……who knows.

[CorkScrewFacedCapital]

Lived in Glasgow a few years now, never knew any of this, very well done

[mrarty]

It's a miracle that you got to do that last scene in one take!

[martinDUFC]

Fantastic! I moved to Glasgow from Dundee a couple of years ago and have always wondered where the phrase "Let Glasgow flourish" came from and why there is a fish on the citys coat of arms! When I think of Glasgow's history I think it as the city of empire etc. What a fantastic pre union..pre Scotland history the city has!

[nicholahenry]

Hello Bruce thank you for sharing very interesting story. My granny on my mother’s side was born in Glasgow

[etiennesharp]

Good to see the Antonine wall at Camelon/Tamfourhill. We used to play there as bairns and it only seems unreal now that we were arsing about in an ancient Roman fortification!

[brikmoorhead]

First King Lot put Tannis in a cart and rolled her down a hill, crashing into a large boulder and smashing into pieces. She was left untouched, and St Katherines spring in Shotts emerged from under her. Throwing her into the firth was second. Mungo built his mom a home called tannochside, and the gate into town from the west was called Tanney's gate. Tannis' younger brother, sir Gowain, was King Arthur's top Knight and has the most tales in the Aurtorian collections.
Great stuff, thanks for getting me started.

[Wee_Langside]

I remember the rhyme, my dad was born in Govan and recited it most times we went to Glasgow.

Thanks for another great bit of story telling Bruce.

[jameselliott]

It’s certainly true that many Glaswegians like myself of a certain vintage know the rhyme, but equally not many will know the full story unless they were lucky in the teachers they had of watch this excellent video. I wonder if children these days are taught about how my home city came to be? As always thanks 🙏 for your sharing of the knowledge.

[sandy]

Thanks Bruce great video Glasgow at last