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AILOH and ARCON Prefabs on Calder Drive Sighthill 1949

31st July 1949
AILOH and ARCON Prefabs on Calder Drive Sighthill 1949

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Photo of Calder Drive taken in 1949 showing both types of prefab, the AILOH and the ARCON. The AILOH were the second tranche built.

You can see part of No 9, then my house No 11, before the start of Calder Terrace on the left of the picture.
Remembered families who were nearby neighbours were:-

On Calder Drive
The Closes The Campbells
The Hepburns The Sinclairs
The Frasers The Flemings
The Wilsons The McBeaths
The Bruces The Nicolls
The Rushes The Melvilles
The Dennys The Smiths

On Calder Terrace
The Skeltons The Woods
The Sutherlands The Suttons
The Burgesses The M’Gowans
The Campbells The Lawsons
The Kellys The Moores
The M’Goffs The Landells
The M’Creas The Allans
Baberton Woods and the Pentland Hills appear in the background.

Stuart Laidlaw Added by Stuart Laidlaw

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