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Ashgrove Postcard. Image sizes Large │ Very large |
Evacuees 1940 (see note below) Image Large│Very large |
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Ashgrove was built originally as a private house but later taken over by Glasgow Corporation as a holiday home for children from Glasgow, who were in need of holidays in rural surroundings. Ashgrove Home was originally "Craigengillan" and was built about the end of last century by Thomas A. Gray, owner of one of the shoe factories and it is said he built it at the top of Kirklandhill Path so that he could look down on the "Bog Lum" which was the chimney stack of Ladywell Factory and a well-known landmark to older residents in the town. The top of the tower was said to be the same height as the Lorne Tannery chimney, which as also owned by Mr. Gray. The postcard above contributed by Frances Fleming.
I was thrilled to find your picture of the 1940
evacuee’s children because my mother and her brother and sister are in
the picture. My mother’s name was Margaret Milburn sister Mamie (Mary)
Milburn and her brother Jackie Milburn. Jackie would have been one of
the older boys in the back and I think my mother the youngest in her
family is in the middle with her sister. My mother told me many stories
about when she was living at the Ashgrove Home and I have a postcard
picture of it my mother sent to her mother asking for money. I’m not
sure how long the Milburn children were at the Ashgrove home because
they were taken out of it when their father as able to purchase a Diary
Farm and move his family higher in the hills away from the dangers. I
still have to research but there was a prisoner of war camp near the
farm were some of the prisoners use to come to each morning to help run
the farm. My mother died in 2007 in Nanaimo BC (Canada) and her sister
Mary lives in Ontario (Canada) and the older brother lives in New
Zealand. I have so much research to do so thank you for helping me with
this picture. This photo of evacuees from Glasgow who stayed at Ashgrove House was contributed by Sadie McKay or Kerr as she was then. She says it is from about 1940 and front centre is Nurse Cameron and back row left is Doris who was the maid. Sadie wonders if others recognise themselves. Names that she remembers are Willie Paterson, James Manning, Albert Dunn, James Donnie, M Innis, David Kane, Tommy and James Lamont, Margaret and Frances Baker (who went to New Zealand and Canada respectively), Alex Turner. Let us hear from you if you know anyone in this photo!
Message received from a
former resident of Ashgrove House |
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