Fraser Grove

Boswall District, Edinburgh

1927

Fraser Grove

Thank you to Ed Thomson, now living in Angus, Scotland,  for sending me the photograph above. 

Ed wrote:

"This photo of my father, John Thomson, just after he was married. was taken in the back garden of his new home in Fraser Grove in September 1927.

The photo was taken before the villas were built in Boswall Drive.

The Fraser Grove houses were amongst the first Scottish National Housing, steel constructed, 3-bedroom 'Weir Villas' to be built.

Like the WW2 'prefabs' they had an original estimated life of 20 years,  but they have now stood for almost 80 years!"

Ed Thomson, Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland:  January 24, 2007

Here is another photograph of the same back garden:

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