Going back 71 years now to 1950 and a photo taken in Stonefield Public Park, Blantyre. Following the success of winning the Scottish Junior Cup that year, Blantyre Vics sadly found themselves with very little money left to even go and properly enjoy a celebration. The Fifth District Council, still recovering from war years, similarly […]
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1982 Stonefield Public Park
1985 Stonefield Public Park
1982 Stonefield Park
From 1982, showing the completed soft and hard landscaping at Stonefield Public Park. New brick planters with shrubs and trees, this was a first, making the view from Glasgow Road green! A far cry from the tenements from only a few years before. The concrete slabs and bricks was never very pretty, although i quite […]
Stonefield Public Park, 1980
A former pedestrian shortcut in the far end of Stonefield Public Park through to Station Road. Farm Road is in the distance. This land to the left and middle was used to build modern houses. Woodburn Avenue off towards the right. I’d love to know when the modern detached houses were built. (I’m sorry, I […]
1950 Elizabeth at Cowan Wilson Arch
Here’s another charming photo shared by Elizabeth Weaver. She’s the happy child in the photo pictured around 1950. Standing under the Blantyre iconic ‘Cowan Wilson Memorial Arch‘, it looks like a spring or autumn day evident by the bare trellises and lack of leaves on the trees. Who remembers happy childhood days in the park? […]
1948 Stonefield Public Park
1948. World War 2 had ended a few years previous and people were full of hope for an emerging, better future. Rationing still continued but it didn’t stop new parents enjoying the simple things in life, like taking their wee ones to the public park on a sunny day. Baby Elizabeth Weaver is pictured here […]