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 […]
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Dunsmuirs at Stonefield Road
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 […]
1942 WW2 Warden enlightened
1934 Archie Danskin at Broompark
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 […]
1923 & 2014 Danskins Animated Overlay
1923 Danskins in the field
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 […]
1923 Top of Stonefield Road
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 […]
1934 Danskins at Broompark Rd
I love this photo from the mid 1930’s. Pictured on the left in the white dress is my gran Mary Danskin and her sisters, Jean, Agnes & Nellie. The Danskins lived in the drapers shop at the cross in Stonefield Road (more recently known as Collinses Newsagents). This Summer 1934 photo is taken in the […]
1913 Auchentibber day out
This photo is just over a hundred years old. It’s from my family collection. Pictured (very faintly) is my gran’s brothers Archie, John, Robert and Jim Danskin. On the back is says “1913, Auchintibber”. The light has got to this photo and faded it considerably, so glad to have scanned it before it deteriorates further. […]