Looking through some family photos, here is my great grandmother’s former shop, Danskins at the corner of Stonefield Road and Broompark Road. The date is around 1923 or so. The shop is still there today, although now a newsagents. In the background we see the gable of Little’s Building, the Little family also owning the […]
You may recognise this building, for it still looks very similar and exists today. Its the former Collinses Newsagents shop at the corner of Stonefield Road and Broompark Road. Shared here by Bill Duncan, this previously unseen photo likely dates from the 1940’s and features the drapers known as Dunsmuirs. Previous to this, the shop […]
On Sunday 18th January 2015, I was visited by George Park and his elderly mother and her sister at my home in High Blantyre. We shared a great afternoon where I was intrigued by some of the stories and tales they were able to tell me. George’s mother is in her 90s and originally from […]
This is a photo of my great Uncle Archie Danskin. The date is 1934 and the location is at the corner of Broompark Avenue and Stonefield Road, to be more precise at the back of Danskin’s shop (Later Collinses newsagents) Sporting a nice bicycle, he poses for the camera smartly dressed. In the background are […]
What happens when you merge a 1923 postcard of Stonefield Road, with a recent picture in 2014? Well, you get the whole change to the road, put entirely in context and chance to look through the keyhole , as to what it used to be like. Thanks to the skills of Robert Brownlie, this animated […]
From 1923, on the left is my grandmother Mary Danskin (later to become Duncan). In the middle is my great grandmother Agnes Danskin (nee Hunter) and on the right my gran’s sister. At the time, the family owned the drapers shop at the corner of Broompark Road/ Stonefield Road which we now recognise as the […]
This marvelous postcard was photographed in 1923. Pictured is the top of Stonefield Road, looking from the cross at Stonefield Crescent / Broompark Road, Northwards down Stonefield Road itself. Danskin’s drapery shop is on the corner of Broompark Road / Stonefield Road and next to it, the small buildings also still there today. However, then […]