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I remember the McShanes very well and of course the Neillys. Wee Maggie Neilly's father went by the name of Darkie Rodgers, he ran the billiard rooms at Oakfield Place. I think all the Neillys are dead now apart from Tom, he lives somewhere in the north of England, the Lake district? I was his apprentice when he had the bakehouse in Merry Street, so I knew all of them. others in Millfield Ave were Sadie Hughes (I think she's in the Old Folks Home down at Parkneuk), her brother Johnnie was a smashing chap, I still meet one of his daughter's now and again. Nellie & Dick Merrilees were great friends of my grandparents, Dick played the drums in Duffy's Hotel. Dan McCue was a pal of my granda's from school, he used to tell us kids that he and Dan were the last of the Motherwell Dazzle Boys - but we never found out what that meant!
Then there were the O'Hara's, (connected to the McShanes?) the old man had married twice so there were 2 families of them, each kind of ignoring the other ones existence. June O'Hara was one of the younger ones. Also the Brown's were in either Millfield or Craigview. My grannie was always on about "Auld Broon" (who was probably younger than her) her eldest boy (Geordie Prentice) had been engaged to one of my mother's sisters but he was killed at the battle for Monte Casino.
Jeannie Jones lived in Craigview Rd, which was really just a part of Millfield Ave, Jeannie was lovely and she and my granny were life-long friends and, spookily, are buried opposite each other in Airbles cemetery. My grandda's sister lived "back-to-back" with Jeannie, in Braidhurst Street.
I think all these people who lived in the Daisy Park had the great advantage of already knowing each other before they moved to the area. They had all previously lived in Park/Scott/Dalziel and Albert Streets and simply carried on where they had left off.
This picture was taken outside 20 Braidhurst Street, probably about 1944.