Canal street / Factory Place

[Harold192]

Hi

I’m looking for any old pictures of canal street old mcmaster motors
Also Factory place the old bus garage in the corner. I have bought them both. Was looking for some history on them

[Jim McCreadie]

As a young boy, I lived at 2 Braehead Place and regularly spent time at the garage in Factory Place. If memory serves correctly (now almost 74 years), it was the A1 bus garage. Viewing Google Earth, 17A/B/C/D/E and F Gladstone Road was then a Post Office behind which there was a park of sorts which was my way to the garage. ASW Motor Factors at 57 Raise Street was then Hector Crawford's Off-Licence.

[wellparkno9]

Master Motors was the British Restaurant during the war,its been a snooker hall on 2 different occasions,a betting shop,a fibre glass company that made boats etc.