These great photos are from 22nd June 1977. I was just 6 years old around the corner in Stonefield Crescent when the former Colliery bing was flattened at Larkfield with work commencing on the current playing field. It was by all accounts noisy work, but nearby residents in both Stonefield Road and SSHA were tolerant, […]
By April 1977, further reduction of the Larkfield Colliery Bing had started. The Bing was unsightly and becoming a dumping ground, hardly what was needed beside the relatively new Scottish Special Housing Estate. It also encroached on to local business, especially at Eddie Collins Shop on Broompark Road as these photos show. Taken on 21st […]
Things are looking a little dated in this next photo from 1977. Taken from the carpark of the Doonin Pub, it looks across a rather untidy Broompark Road towards the former Larkfield Bing, once the site of Dixons Pit 4. The date is known. 21st April 1977. I was just 6 years old at that […]
The great photos just keep coming! Hopefully this is yet another new photo for you. It’s the 1950s and we’re standing on top of the old Dixon’s 4 Colliery Bing, (or more commonly known as Larkfield Bing today). Looking northeastwards towards Stonefield Road to the Anderson Church and the Hall adjacent to it. To the […]
Next, a photo from the 1950s, taken at the back of Robertson’s Building at the top of Stonefield Road. The houses were directly opposite the Larkfield Bing. Shared here by Bill Duncan, the photo shows a rare, expanded view of the 3 storey tenement building. Bill’s mother is to the left and fellow neighbours, Mrs Savage […]