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drainage system, meant that property such as 24 Church Road was now the

kind that was developed and modernised, It is part of a row of cottages which

like others in Strathkinness, in The Pleasance and Bonfield Road, although

renovated and altered still retain much of the character of an earlier century.

In the early 1960s when Mount Melville and Drumcarrow Crescents were

built, forty-seven new houses brought many more people into the village. In

1950 the County Council built six houses on Bonfield Road, and in 1953 six

more houses were built on Church Road beside the playing field. In 1957

eight houses were built on the High Road, and in 1960 twenty-two hniucec

were built on Sunnyside, including six specially designed for older people.

OLD PEOPLES’ HOUSES

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