Elm Street Blantyre 1978

1978 Bottom of Elm Street looking at the last days of the shops along Glasgow Road. Was there a play park on the left? Being a High Blantyre boy, I couldn’t recall that and decided to ask on social media, where a cascade of replies followed:

Margaret Slaven Mc Sorley Yes
Alan Baird aye there was swings and a wee roundabout i think
Yvonne Houghton I was brought up in this street loved it
Mary McLellan yes there was
Margaret Farmer Yes, there was a playground. I used to live on Jackson St and Herbertson St before that.
Marion Anderson We lived in Hawthorn pl , played on the swings often. The used to have Punch and Judy shows there too.
Patricia Hutcheson Docherty Walk down Elm St every day, great memories
Robert McLeod-Wolohan Aye there used to b a swing park there
Etta Morrison We lived in beech Pl and used swing park often..There was swings chute roundabout and something we called the frying pan ??
Mary Boyle My Nana Mrs Mogan lived in Elm Street, also I was born there! It was my world when I was growing up.
Michelle Evans I remember that play park, we used to play on the roundabout thing smile emoticon

Colin Duffy I used to stay at no 18a elm street right nxt to where this was taken