This photo dates from around 1915 and is part of a series of Postcards taken around that time. Pictured one Edwardian day is a street scene at the bottom of Stonefield Road, where it meets with Glasgow Road. I believe it to be morning as the shadows are laying to the East, indicating the sun […]
The reverse of this old family photo says “1919 – Blantyre Park”. I believe this is Stonefield Park in Low Blanyre. It shows a beautiful clockface made out of flowers and i’ve heard of a few tales about how this was maintained even to the 1960s! I have to wonder how long such a display […]
Gordon French of 313 Glasgow Road, Blantyre was just 18 months when a photographer captured this photograph in 1953 of his cherub like pose, fixing some large dahlias at the Kelvin Hall Flower Show in September of that year. Source: Picture is courtesy of Dundee Courier. Catherine Morrison Is that the French,s that had the sewing […]