A big sorrowful sigh when I see this beautiful photo of Stonefield Park. The grand, isolation and focal point of the COWAN WILSON Arch, the well kept cut grass and beautiful flower beds. Even the wooden trellis, adorned with sweet peas is a sight to behold. The trees in this 1960’s photo are a LOT […]
Going back exactly 70 years ago to Stonefield Public Park. This previously unseen photo online shows the beautiful flower display marking the very special occasion of the building of the Livingstone Memorial Bridge in 1952. Flowers planted to a specific design showing not only Livingstone’s profile, but the bridge itself using thousands of little colourful […]
During December 2021,open grassland in Stonefield Public Park, Blantyre was transformed as many dozens of fruit trees were planted to form a little orchard. As you can see from this photo taken 5 months later in April 2022, the trees are flourishing and becoming more established. Our public park was one of 13 parks throughout Lanarkshire which received […]
Let me tell you a story next. Once upon a time there was a beautiful park which went by the name Stonefield Public Park. I say “went”, for now it is officially known as McAnulty Park. Since the 1930’s, a place of beauty which installed a huge sense of pride in the community as well […]
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 […]
Staying with 1982 in this post, these photos show Stonefield Public Park. Even then, the park still had trellises, the boating pond and looks well kept with grass attended to often. Pride in the park was certainly still there and whilst the beautiful flowerbeds of the 1950s and 1960s were mostly gone, there were still […]
In May 1980, Hamilton District Court heard how revellers to Blantyre’s Summer Gala in 1979 were left terrified as punks ran amock through the community day, spoiling it for many families. They ran through the fairground at Stonefield Public Park stealing candyfloss from children, pulling one youth to the ground and kicking him. Families scattered […]