The above site plan and detailed layout plan below date from 1972. These plans were referred to as the '5th Development' in Lower Largo, as they followed on from the earlier waves of council housing beginning in the late 1930s with the creation of the west part of Station Park. The following year the completed development was named 'Durham Gardens'. Of course now the whole of the area to the north of here up to the main road has been developed too. But, until shortly before this development took place, the old toll cottage still stood alongside Harbour Wynd. And adjacent to Durham Wynd was a restaurant named 'The Law'.
The toll cottage was demolished around this time but its existence is remembered in the name given to the new street of houses built on the site - 'Toll Court'. The photograph at the foot of this post was taken in 1989 when Toll Court was under construction. Today a new wave of house building is taking place at the opposite side of Durham Wynd from Durham Gardens, of around sixty dwellings being marketed as 'Selkirk Grove'.
The toll cottage was demolished around this time but its existence is remembered in the name given to the new street of houses built on the site - 'Toll Court'. The photograph at the foot of this post was taken in 1989 when Toll Court was under construction. Today a new wave of house building is taking place at the opposite side of Durham Wynd from Durham Gardens, of around sixty dwellings being marketed as 'Selkirk Grove'.
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