James Theodore Boyack
James Theodore Boyack was born on 23rd March 1882 at 7 Hamilton Terrace (West) in Partick, with the West of Scotland Cricket Ground visible from the front and the railway line between Anniesland and Partick at the rear (beyond which were the goods sidings that would become the West End Retail Park at the foot of Crow Road - James's house was behind what is now Sainsburys). In modern terms, the address is 31 Peel Street, and in the photo below from Dumbarton Road it is in the distance where the road begins to curve to the right: The modern street view looking in the opposite direction is here: Number 31 is about halfway down the modern block (centre-left of photo). The modern flats here replaced those destroyed by a parachute mine on the (first) night of the Clydebank Blitz, 13th March 1941 (if you're interested, you can read more by clicking here ). The Boyacks lived close to the Whiteleys at number 15 Hamilton Terrace; their son, Cyril, was destined to be anothe...