Lost Innocence

Stonehouse Public Park In 1950’s

The boating pond with paddle boats. Simple pleasures enjoyed by local children in an age when common sense prevailed and health & safety hadn’t been invented

In the background Stonehouse chute, the biggest in Scotland demolished in 1970’s because it was deemed ‘too dangerous’

The park was very popular with visitors, mainly from the Glasgow area and summer Saturdays would see trip buses parked nose to tail on the steep access road.

Now, despite the best efforts of local volunteers, the park, devoid of its two biggest attractions and underfunded is a poor shadow of its former glory and trip buses come no more.