ADDITIONAL SUPPORTING EVIDENCE: MAPS, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND SITE BRICKS

Archival maps held at Falkirk Library corroborate the theory that the house was a pre-war construction. A map revision of 1943 includes the entire housing scheme known as David's Loan as complete, except for the last dozen remaining houses on Cobblebrae Cresent. A 1942 aerial photo provided to me by Allan Kilpatrick from the National Collection of Aerial Photography closely matches the 1943 map revision. The 1942 aerial image depicts my house, shelter and garden with mature garden growth and hedge rows as property boundaries.This evidence of mature growth coupled with the house's proximity to the entrance of the scheme and the unique shelters found only on my block indicate that the six terraced houses on Haugh Street are of pre-war construction.

Lastly, we come to the site evidence - the bricks. Early in the dig, local historian Ian Scott made a site visit. During our on-site discussion, he mentioned that I should find bricks from within a 20-mile radius due to local brick mandates. However, my excavation revealed the contrary. I removed bricks from ten different manufacturing plants: Callendar, Sterling, Brownlee, J.G Stein, and Dougall, all manufactured in or around Falkirk, were typical, whereas others such as Craigrigg (West Lothian), Cannerton (Stirlingshire), Annandale (Kilmarnock), Etna (West Lothian) and FB (Borders) were from outwith the local area. The Jacobean from Buckley Junction Metallic Brick Co. in north Wales was completely unexpected. It is possible that the local bricklayer had these random bricks in his yard when he built the shelter in the garden, or perhaps this is further indication that the shelter was built before local brick tenders were made mandatory, indicating that the shelter may have been built in late 1939.