
This is the terrace, originally "Rookby Villas" where the Misses McCloy lived.

Corner of York Park from 189 Shore Road where my own Grand-parents lived, looking up towards Fortwilliam.

Loughview Villas, demolished around 1990 (or 1991).

Aerocrete!

McCloy's old shop and surrounding houses.

Demolition of the gate-lodge at the bottom of Fortwilliam Park.
Margaret, if you see these I have a few more of this locale including a photo of Mount Vernon House school (an aerial view). If anyone can show me a photograph of the white-washed cottage up a short lane nearly opposite McCloy's shop I would be over the moon. Even if it could be described to me I'd be delighted as I was always intrigued by it as a child, but you could only see its gable wall from the Shore Road. I have been finding out things about it for over 20 years and have managed to acquire a photo of the Johnson family's children who lived in it in the 1950's. They are standing in the garden, but unfortunately you can't see the cottage which was then numbered 276 Shore Road. It first appeared in the 1895 street directory listed as "Fortwilliam Park Cottage" but its name was later changed to "Belleview Cottage" before the Shore Road started to be listed numerically some time in the 1930's.
Oh Dargan thank you so much for these wonderful evocative pictures, sorry, I kind of gave up on any pics being posted, so I didn't check back on this thread! Oh the last pic is so tantalisingly close to where our houses and the garage was!!!!
And as for the wee house up a short lane opposite McCloys, I'm racking my brain, I can remember a few tiny wee (terraced?) houses across the road from us, just round the corner from the bottom of the hill, as you say nearly bang opposite the shop, but I don't think even back in the early 70's they were occupied? But please correct me if I'm wrong? I will speak to my mum and my uncle Harold, both of whom lived along that stretch of the Shore Road for a "quer few years". Thanks again for your post, I am actually trying to write up some memoirs of my family, and boy did these pictures stir up a few memories! I used to go down to the Misses McCloy's house with my mum now and then for a cup of tea when I was very wee, they'd give me a biscuit or an orange, and they had a piano in the front room, and one of them would play songs like "Come Into the Garden, Maud" on it -memories!!
Margaret
PS- and that bit of ground after the McCloys shop was where my uncle Clifford had a temporary soujourn, way before the petrol station was built ;-)