Fire at Gladstone Avenue 1973
Barrhead Gala Day 1974
Barrhead High Ruddigore 1975
Hall of Achievement 1975
Uplawmoor Primary School 1975
Stephen Mansfield began his career in newspaper photography in 1973 with his first ever publication in the Barrhead Pictorial. The picture was of a fire in Gladstone Avenue and he received the handsome cheque of 'One Pound'!
Undeterred by this meagre payment he went on to submit a picture to the Barrhead News and was invited to meet the editor who at that time was Alice Craig. She was in need of a regular photographer and with her encouragement and support Stephen soon decided to abandon his apprenticeship at an architects office and work full time as a freelance.
He went on to contribute to other publications in the group including the SouthSide News, the Mercury and the Renfrewshire Gazette and other periodicals such as the Govan
Press, Flourish and the Gryffe Weekly News.
He was subsequently offered daily assignments with The Scotsman and the newly launched Scotland on Sunday before accepting a staff position with the Scotsman in Glasgow.
Now retired, he is in the process of scanning the negatives from his vast archive of historic photographs and publishing them on the web.
Images are added on a daily basis so visitors are encouraged to frequent this site.
Recent Additions
Barrhead Gala Day
If you think Stephen was the photographer at your event or first day at school etc. and you have lost or require a digital image or print, please feel free to enquire about the availability of an original negative by sending him an
e mail to
stephenmansfield.co.uk
He will endeavour to carry out a search and if found, will scan the image and e mail a low resolution image for confirmation.
Then if you wish to purchase a high quality jpeg or TIFF image it can be rescanned using the highest quality hardware and imaging software.
Prices and sizes available on request.
The contents of this site are the sole property and copyright of Stephen Mansfield trading as www.stephenmansfield.co.uk. All the photographs and images on this site are the sole copyright of Stephen Mansfield apart from the images for The Scotsman which are the copyright of The Scotsman Publications Ltd, (TSPL) Holyrood, Edinburgh and no material must be reproduced, copied or published either in print or on the web without prior permission of the owner.