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 […]
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 […]