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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Identify Year of this 'Dundee Pleasure' Photo
« on: Monday 03 December 12 16:51 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks for that link, you've been a big help! It looks as if the photo could not have been earlier than 1938 based on the Dundee vehicle registration records you referred me to. I looked at all the earlier YJ registrations and also some of the earlier TS registrations. Based on the logo on the bus (DPS) I'm fairly certain that it is a Dundee Pleasure Services bus, especially as the words "Dundee Pleasure..." also appear in the photo. I also checked some of the registration records after that but have not yet found other buses registered to DPS after the one you found. This suggest DPS may have been a short lived venture, but I will research all the records till I get to the end!  I was not aware of the FDCA website and I'm sure I will find it very useful with my future researches, thanks for that.

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Identify Year of this 'Dundee Pleasure' Photo
« on: Sunday 04 November 12 16:36 GMT (UK)  »
I came across this old photo of my grandfather, Frederick John Heathfield, standing alongside a bus on which is inscribed the words 'Dundee Pleasure....'  This photo could throw some light on when one of my other relatives, Jeanie Gray Johnstone Thomson (Fred's wife's sister), moved to Dundee to work as telegraphist at Dundee Tay Bridge Station.

Can anyone throw any light on when this photo might have been taken? Frederick was born in 1892 and could be about 40 in this photo - however the photo is in very poor condition which doesn't help with trying to view fine detail. My relatives all lived in the Gourock area and I haven't been able so far to find out when Jeanie Gray Johnstone Thomson moved from Gourock to Dundee. It is known for certain that she was living at 21 Ashbank Road in Dundee on 3 May 1940 (from her fathers death certificate) and that she lived there for most of her life thereafter till shortly before she died in 1981.

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Renfrewshire / Re: Where was/is Borewell Lodge in Gourock
« on: Tuesday 09 October 12 00:13 BST (UK)  »
Hi Elaine,

Great link, and thanks for the welcome!

I actually have the original book published in 1958 but I had forgotten about it until I read your post. The PDF on the Inverclyde site doesn't contain photos but I looked out the original book and it does. Unfortunately there are no photos in the book for Bore Well Lodge but the story you found there is really interesting. There are a lot of old photos of Gourock scattered round the web and now that I know where it is, thanks to duckman, I might get lucky and find it in a photo.

Many thanks for your help - what a great resource RootsChat is.

Gordon

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Renfrewshire / Re: Where was/is Borewell Lodge in Gourock
« on: Monday 08 October 12 21:35 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks for that, what excellent map! Gourock has been significantly redeveloped (not always for the better) since then. Looking at a later 6" 1892-1905 map I can see the lodge you located but it is not named (other than 'Lodge') on this smaller scale map;

www.rootschat.com/links/0ro5/

There are several buildings marked as lodge, I wonder what that means, perhaps originally something like a guest house?

I'm surprised it still existed in 1950. I went to the nearby Eastern Primary School about 1953/54 and can't recall Borewell Lodge, but I'm 70 now, maybe I wouldn't! I assume its long demolished.

Link above shrunk so as not to stretch the page

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Renfrewshire / Where was/is Borewell Lodge in Gourock
« on: Monday 08 October 12 20:38 BST (UK)  »
This is my first post so please be gentle if I've broken any rules - I did read them!  :)

My query concerns a John Gray Thomson registering his father's death in 1950 stating that he (the registrant) lived in Borewell Lodge, Gourock. I have tried to track down (on-line) where this lodge was, including looking at the excellent 1905 6 inch OS maps of Scotland on the National Library of Scotland website, but without joy so far.

A Google Search led me to a couple of Inverclyde documents that mention Borewell Lodge (back in the 19th century) but they give no information about its location within Gourock. Does anyone know of this place, does it still exist, and where it was located within Gourock?

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