Can Somebody From Glasgow Help?

[MWG14]

Perhaps somebody from Glasgow can help here.

A friend in Northamptonshire has just received a very belated Christmas card through his door. It is nothing to do with him. The card was posted at the Glasgow Mail Centre on 21st December. It looks as though the sender is a very elderly person or possibly someone who has suffered a stroke because the handwriting is almost impossible to decipher.

The addressees are Mr. & Mrs. W. Walker. The second line of the address looks like 131 Straveham Road, and the final line is possibly Namston. No postcode.

Can anyone help to to decipher this for him please?

[Baldric]

Just bin it, no sweat.

[lady-janine]

Maybe check it out via 192.com as there might be an answer there.

[TonyV]

Straveham Road doesn't seem to exist according to Royal Mail website.

[piggynose]

Baldric you heartless so and so.

[bhg481]

There is a 131, STRAVANAN ROAD in Glasgow; perhaps that's the one. Looking on Google street view they look like flats over shops.

[Barsel]

bhg481 I can see STRAVANAN ROAD in Glasgow, but not 131. Where did you see that?

[jno]

Stravanan?

https://www.streetlist.co.uk/g/g45/g45-9/stravanan-road

You can check Glasgow streets here
https://streets.openalfa.co.uk/glasgow-city_glasgow-city/streetdir/s

[bhg481]

I typed 131 stravanan road, glasgow into Google earth and then switched to street view.

[MWG14]

The card inside the envelope appears to be from Helen & Robin, but again the handwriting is very spidery.

[lady-janine]

Balders bedside chat is a soothing as that of Sqad.

Perhaps they are twins?

[webbo3]

can you post a pic of it and see if we can decipher it some more.

[Barsel]

I looked on the Royal Mail website and found STRAVANAN ROAD in Glasgow the postcode is G45, but the numbers on the road are really weird, probably because as bhg481 has said, they look like flats over shops, but there is no 131.

[Etch]

Yes, a photo of the actual writing on the envelope might help. Apart from the postmark, I can't see why the addressee should necessarily be anywhere in the Glasgow area.

[bednobs]

how did your friend in northampton get it? if it was addressed to a glasgow address? is his address anything like that?
just put it back in the post

[MWG14]

That was my assumption. I just thought that it might be a local address because it was so short. The last line of the address possibly begins with an N and that’s why it ended up in Northamptonshire. I thought if the card was going to someone further afield, a postcode might have been added.

[MWG14]

By the way, it came via Royal Mail.

[bhg481]

There is a "Stravanan Off Sales" shop in the row, which 192.com lists as 105 Stravanan road. I don't know how they would number the flats above, if they have separate addresses.

[bhg481]

MGW - yes, I looked in Glasgow because I thought the lack of postcode implied it was local.

[Neveracrossword]

There's a suburb/village/area called Neilston in between Glasgow and Paisley, a large town about 10 miles away.

[Etch]

"The last line of the address possibly begins with an N" - any chance of a photo so we can see for ourselves?