SPW020313 SCOTLAND (1928). James Buchanan and Co. Lt. Bankier Distillery, Banknock. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north.

At the bottom of the photo, between the canal and the distillery you can make out the fields where the pigs were kept, they were fed on the draft from the distillery.

Just visible at the top right hand corner are the Miners Rows.The tenement of Streetville is where I was brought up from 1950 to 1955, I can remember the names of most of the families who lived there.John Reid worked in Dobbies Foundry, which can be seenat the top of the photo, he emigrated to Canada.Old Ned Toner whom I used to carry his accumulater to Thortons Garage to be filled up (no electricity in Streetville). Frank Zyzik and family, Elizabeth was in my class at school,The Moffats The Gallachers Danny was a good footballer, The Cornners Linda was about my age.Most of the families were rehoused in the new scheme built around Glenview Farm. Banknock School can also be seen but Thorntons Garage had yet to be built. More later

The tenement building on the top left was called Streetville.This was where I lived for the first 5 years of my life,from 1950 to 1955. The place was named after a company called Street,they had a brickworks on the site at the top left to centre of the picture,which in this photo shows Dobbies foundry which came after the brickworks closed.The house above the tenement block is now a part of The Glenskirlie Hotel.