In April 1905, Mrs McCallum, who ran the Larkfield Bar (where the former Doonin/Olive Music Lounge now is) was ordered by a court to close her back door. What was the reason for this? Well it was the licensing courts who asked her to close the back door of the premises, owing to the amount […]
Memories came flooding back when I saw this photo. Its of a traditional Christmas Card from the 1970s. You may remember the kind, packs of paper cards, all with just 2 or 3 designs, that were mass produced and we sent them out with scattergun tendencies! To families, to our buddies at school, to work […]
This is my grandmother Mary Danskin, before she married. Shes about 21 in this photo. The date is between 1928 and 1930 and she’s standing at the top of Stonefield Road junction with Broompark Road at the cross at the back of her home. The building was Danskin’s drapers and today we know it […]
Walking in Greenhall Park in August 2015, I noticed that large areas of the sloping field were covered in little mounds of earth. This is of course due to the burrowing nighttime activity of moles. It reminded me of my grandmother, Mary Duncan (nee Danskin) of Stonefield Crescent. During the 1970’s, my gran, then in […]
A family photo next from 1931. On the left is my grandfather John Duncan with his mother Maggie and two sisters Chrissie and Margaret. Pictured also on this day trip to the beach, along with the Duncans is Mary Danskin, on the front, the girlfriend of John and later to become my grandmother. John died […]
Photo on the left is from 1929 my great aunt Jenny Danskin outside the back of the drapers shop at the corner of Stonefield Crescent and Broompark Road. On the right in 1925 is Mary Danskin (later Mary Duncan) my gran. The location on the right in unknown. Both girls were part of the Danskin […]
My grandmother swore her lack of arthritis (even in her 80s), was due to a recipe she followed for several decades. She was never bothered by Arthritis or Rheumatism. She left this “cure” typed up for mum, which has now passed to me. Strangely, I do get a touch of arthritis after working in the […]