Taking you all now to 1960. Pictured is the old chip shop on Fernslea Avenue at the junction of Oaklea Crescent. The picture looks north towards the old St Blanes school. The houses adjacent on Fernslea Avenue look fairly new, the roughcast still pristine, with young hedgerows in the gardens.
What’s your memories of this area? A massive flurry of discussion for this great photo.
With thanks to Marie Kelly for sharing this great, clear photo.
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Billy McDade Yes Irene, we lived at No.4 Oaklea Cres. The photo looks as though it was taken in the garden of either No.6 or 8 Oaklea. Brings back many memories of growing up there. Happy days.
Moira Macfarlane Remember it well ,,
A couple of years later working delivering milk as a Wilkie Warrior on collection night I’d walk along Fernslea ave on my way to Wilkie’s Farm (Bardykes Farm) or back home to Camelon Crescent And id stop at the chippy and get my dinner the 1st time I tried pizza deep fried great memories of distant days long time ago 😀
Daniel Anderson Kelly the palace du alice ❤😀xx
Betty Dargue Sandy Wilkie my son was a Wilkie Warrior lol cant answer for my hubby Sandy as he is no longer here xx
Betty Dargue Sandy Wilkie my son is Troy x
Betty Dargue Doing great he runs a bussiness also cornerstone pub up @ high blantyre cross x
Sandy Wilkie ill go in and say “hello” one day.
Sandy Wilkie Im still at Bardykes. We also have a wee place in Argyll.
Betty Dargue Betty Dargue was up @ my cousin George Baird funeral 2day stay in sprue ave yrs ago the had booked the cornerstone for after it he was only 64yrs they lost older bro this yr 2 & also his wife not long after he was called Ned they do meals in the pub 2 x
David Reeley Where did grandad live Thomas Cuthbertson
David Reeley Cant remember. Havn’t been there in 40 years.
Billy Campbell Never oot it my gran lived across the rd
Anne Lappin Gordon Hayburn your right there doll ‘xxxx
Liz Allan Im a wheatland girl my granpa Dobson lived in fernslea as did some of my friends ran round to hughie hendry’s on a sunday for a block of Neapolitan icecream which he wrapped in a newspaper parcel to keep it cold lol
Agnes McAllister Liz Smith great memories getting sent to big Hughies shop xxx
Janette Moran Robert Moore was that mr and mrs jackson?
Lynn Kelly I lived in wheatland ave, was In Hughie Hendrys shop nearly every day xx
Alice Sanaghan I LIVED In Hazelwood Drive
Alice Sanaghan Not seen you for a long time margaret hope your well xx
Bridget Whelehan No Liz, I was referring to St. Blaine’s school in the background.xx
James Connolly born in number 76, just down from the school gates. My auntie cathy (mcskimming ) had the chip shop way back in the early sixties. of course i remember hughie hendry who was a bit of a character. My brother still lives in Fernslea.
Stephen Mccall Eddie Campaigne did you work for W Norris on Stonefield Road. If you did I got the delivery job after you. Done it for 2years then join Wilkies on the night run.
David Dickson Danny conner would be frying his chips with a fag hanging out of his mouth
Margaret Milligan I lived13 Oakley crescent ‘ me and mrs Jackson were lovely neighbors xx
Mum and her family lived in Hazelwood Drive Cx
Lyn Lappin My gran stayed next to shop..my uncle is still there..loved staying there and going into hughie henrys.
Hugh Lennon Tonner Wee Gary Kelly worked in the shop.
Wilma Hayburn McNulty Worked in chippy myself a very long time ago 😂😂😂
Wilma Hayburn McNulty Anne my first job 😂😂😂
Catherine Robertson Very well thanks Wilma. And you? Xx
Elizabeth O’Brien My dads grandparents stayed in No 44 Fernslea Avenue. Could have been the first residents in the house. My dad then managed to get the house years later. A house I loved. He swapped it with the current tenants.
When I was born I lived in 6 Fernslea Avenue. And we also had family in 4 Fernslea Avenue.
My best childhood memories r the friends I had on the street and those who came from surrounding areas – Orchard Drive, Oaklea, Ivy Place 😊
Teresa Brannan My nana and da Brannan lived in 2 Hazelwood drive backing on to side of shops xxx my grandad or da as I called him had avery at back of garden and he bred canaries xxx great memories xxx
Jade Devine Michelle Fleming that’s crazy it looks so different
Jacqueline Lynch Was never away from the sweetie bit of Hendrys…Then worked there for a year.
Jacqueline Lynch Lol Hi Catherine,funny how things come back to mind. Hope your well Catherine Robertson I am thanks. You ? Was just thinking after I posted that comment about the school. I think it was Janice I took up to Ogilvie on her first day …. xx
Mr Hendry always let us choose a couple of bars of chocolate for a Sunday treat 😋
Andy Man Aye, i still have flashbacks of inside the shop, your mam wi a big peenie on,i can even mind getting sat on the counter while mam was getting served, then when i was in ma teens, it was aww the rage to get yir ear pierced, a lassie called caroline that i went to school with was working in the shop, i went in to get pierced, she said, haud on till i get the instructions while holding the peircing gun, i said, naw, i’ll just leave it !!!!!
Fiona Wellard Andy Man Your right…my mam used to have the auld pennies behind counter to use 😀
Andy Man aye fiona, he was a crackin guy, hope he’s well, i’m sure my mate’s sister is still friendly with silvia, i’ll find oot and let ye know
Catherine Robertson Hi Anne. Such good memories of growing up in that street .. I remember your Bobby had all those guinea pigs in the wee hut out the back !!
Catherine Robertson I know Anne. I remember me and my friend Annette Whyte had black mice as pets and your Bobby let us put them in beside his Guineas pigs.. But the guinea pigs ate\ killed the mice and we were broken hearted… We had one black mouse left and we called h…See more
Catherine Robertson Anne Mosley, we should have a reunion xx
Paul O’neill Born and bred on that street ,great times.
Paul O’neill Yes it is Estelle .x
Wilma Hayburn McNulty Helen Williams did you used to stay in Caithness street in high Blantyre .?
Catherine Whitefield Loving reading all the comments . Some from ppl who were at st blanes with me
Wilma Hayburn McNulty Ian Paterson I got Andrews christening piece remember it well Alisa Tonner My dad’s gran n grandad stayed in 31 Fernslea Ave Maggie and John Sloan x
Rita Calder My Aunt Lizzie and Mick Sanaghan lived at 37 Fernslea Ave, they had 6 kids, they moved in when it was brand new,
Always remember Cuppy Douglas annual bus run, and Aunty Lizzie’ yearly Christmas party for the kids in the Street and my Dad was always Santa.
Kenny Cropp The angle this photo is taken at it could be from the magonigle or Tate garden
Kim Tait Maclean I lived in number 10 oaklea crescent fae I was born 1961 until I was 17 me & my big sister karen didn’t want 2 leave.there because we loved the house and the neighbours great memories .
Teresa Logie I was at st. Blanes just turne the big 50. X
Teresa Logie Loved that wee shop remember mrs beebee that lived in hazelwood drive that used to work in it shug shop was you went in 1 door for sweets then out again then in another door for bread etc x
Eddie Campaigne we lived at 24!
My late grandparents lived at no 52 Fernslea Av, Allan and Isa Pollock, they moved there from High Blantyre Police Station where my Papa was a sergeant. My dad, Allan, his brother John and sister Isa all lived there too. My Papa died in the mid eighties and my gran eventually moved in with her daughter Isa in Wishaw.
Used to play in the park which backed onto their house. I’m sure The Chalmers lived next door no 50, they moved out and then a foreign family moved in and I recall my grandparents loving having children next door.
My Papa loved his garden and greenhouse, we were allowed to play bowls in the back garden and he allowed us to play on the piano but dear lord you wouldn’t have touched it if gran was in. LOL.
Loved the chippy but loved a single nougat more from the tallyman.
In 1980 I met a young woman who used to live at no 14 Fernslea Av, in Queens Park Hospital Blackburn Lancashire where i was waiting to have our daughter. Small world.