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Feeling rather housebound like the rest of the country today. This public health crisis has a long way to go before being resolved in the UK, and already after week 1, I’m longing to be outdoors more for a change of scenery. So what better than a couple of photos of outdoors. Let’s go back […]
These very clear photos are from 1985. Who remembers the park like this? Still so well kept, the large boating pond visible.
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 […]
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 […]
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. 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 […]
Complaints about the Stonefield Public Park were heard in June 1967 at a meeting of the 8th District Council. The first concerned the number of children and adults who were increasingly using the boating pond for bathing, particularly during that very hot summer. At times it had been so busy the boats hardly had room […]
How iconic this photo is. From 2000, it’s the end of the blue Oval pool not far from the Station Road entrance to Stonefield Public Park. Some happy memories in warm summers playing in that water as a child. Now all gone. What’s your memories of this pool and fountain? Photo: Veverka collection Featuring Blantyre Project […]
In the immediate Post Millennium years, the derelict boating pond in Stonefield Public Park had become a liability for the council. Needing cleaned out on a regular basis, it was completely unused. Looking back on this former pond two decades later, I cant help but wonder if it could have been used for summer and […]