Joyce from Oregon and her sister Madelyn from California, have Scots ancestry and are visiting their roots for a few days in this Year of the Homecoming. First port of call after I collected them from their hotel this morning was Houston Street, Glasgow. All the houses are long since demolished but part of the street still exists in an industrial/retail area, blocked off further along by new road development.

Next we visited Merryland Street, in Govan, one of Glasgow's western suburbs. The house they were looking for, number 32 had been demolished but here Joyce stands adjacent to where it would have stood, with number 36 in the background.

Success at last when we found 940 Govan Road, where Joyce and Madelyn's grandparents lived in one of the flats in this building in the early years of the twentieth century.

Turning the camera around and looking west along Govan Road, many of the late Victorian tenements still survive.

Tucked away down a lane off Govan Road we found Govan Old Parish Church where their grandparents had been married.
More to follow shortly.