Mr George Crawford messaged me in May, “I was born on the 18th of March 1930 at Beckford Lodge, Hamilton to Alexander (Alex.) Crawford and Mary (Polly) McKinnon.
We stayed with my grandparents John McKinnon and Martha Skeldon Wightman at May Cottage Ferniegair before flitting to the Dales on Main Street, High Blantyre in the year 1932.
George shared this modern photo of the Dales during the late 1980’s and I see in the background prior to Ally Bally Bees , Smiths Garage was still there. The Crawford family lived in the house on the left with the brown door from 1932 until 1936.
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According to another reliable source, across the road from The Dales was a row of houses called Pits Row (used to house coal miners). Our “source” remembers her grandparents, David and Janet (nee Patterson) Dunsmore living there. David (1879-1966) and Janet (?- 1951) had 4 children: Barbara Rankin Dunsmore (1907-?), Elizabeth McAllister Dunsmore (1918-2014), Janet Patterson Dunsmore (1920-1989), and Jean Dunsmore (1923-?).
Does anyone recognize these names and/or places? Thanks so much!