From Alistair's Dad
I took those photos in the days when we were surrounded by fields with sheep. The ground was very poor, stony, scrub grass.
The original Rosehall Garage was in Rosehall, rebuilt across the road in I think the 1920 30 period. I was told that one of the early users of the space at the Falkirk end was a young man called Walter Alexander who owned a bus. He moved to Camelon and became the biggest bus company in Scotland.
During WW2 the house was lived in by lots of families, probably a room each, and when we moved in in 1965 we spent the first few years in DIY refurbishing the house. People walking past would stop and tell us that they had started their married lives there in the 1940's and 50's.
Alistair is right, the back garden was an orchard until we came. A local farmer had been contracted to grub it all up, and the ground was just earth when we moved in, but seeded. The farmer came back several times to tell us he hadn't been paid. Only one apple tree remained, and it died slowly because of Honey fungus, leaving only a pear tree which produced hundreds of very small pears.
We sold the house to a local builder who put 3 houses in the garden, ruining the wicket we had been nursing for years.
We left in 1989 when I retired
