A previously unseen photo today of Stonefield Public Park. Taken just under 60 years ago, you can see how busy the park was. People out walking with children and prams, playing in the playpark at the back and not quite at the full height of summer yet, judging by the empty shallow boating pond. However, […]
This is my mother, Janet Duncan back in 1969, then aged only 22. Pictured at Stonefield Public Park on 23rd August that year, she’s showing my father some pitch n putt skills. They were on an ‘international’ date, my dad on holiday in Scotland, the first time he’d ever been here! In the foreground beside […]
25th February 1964 Minutes of the Fifth District Council were considering by that time, opening up Greenhall Estate as a park for the public. It says, “As considerable progress was being made to the development of Greenhall Estate which is to open to the public, the chairman suggested that consideration may now be given to […]