Below is a photograph of Irvine (or Ayrshire) Central Hospital where Derek was born in 1961and where my sister, Linda Helen Margaret Ellery, was born on 23rd July 1963.

The picture below is me and my younger brother 

Derek George McNicoll Ellery. 

He was born at Irvine Central Hospital on 9th May 1961. 

My full name is Stanley Craig Ellery and I was born at Redlands Hospital on 6th September 1957. Derek was about 4 months old so this was probably taken about September 1961.

The picture below is of Redlands Hospital when it was called Redlands House, in about the 1870s.

James Buchanan Mirrlees, a wealthy Glasgow businessman, acquired 24 acres of land north of Great Western Road in 1869. He employed the architect James Boucher to build an Italianate villa with conservatory, stable block and greenhouses. 

The above photograph, by Thomas Annan, shows the newly-built house surrounded by the fields of Kelvinside, which was still largely rural. Great Western Road can just be seen in the bottom left corner. The house was converted in the early 1920s to become Redlands Hospital for Women. The hospital was closed in 1978 and the building became a Scottish Ambulance Service training centre.

Hello and welcome to Craig's Family History Blog Spot!

My main hobby is researching family history and social history!

I hope to make this blog spot about my family history and add comments and histories about the family members and ancestors I have been researching over the years.

I will start with ME, so as an experiment I will insert a larger image of the one on my profile. This is me as a chubby baby taken about the beginning of 1958 at my first home 32 McLelland Drive, Kilmarnock.