Love this next wee story! Blantyre Project reader Duncan Slater (85), was recently returning from a family reunion in Rugeley, England and on the way home met up with a childhood pal. A Blantyre School pal he hadn’t seen…… for 71 years!
Duncan is pictured on the left after meeting up with John Gillespie (also 85). The gentlemen met at a rest area just off the M6 and I’ll bet they had a right natter about Blantyre.
The last time the school pals were together was when they left Calder Street School in 1952! Just look at those grins!
So good to see a photo of Duncan Slater, a link to my Scottish family, I believe Duncan Slater & I are related through my grannie Ellenora Schlothauer Slater Duncan.
Ellenora was my fathers mother, John Duncan was his father, my grandfather…
Dad often reminisced of life in Calderside as a boy … his name was Alexander Duncan, the youngest son of grannie Ellen & Grandad Duncan … his sister was Sarah Duncan Marshall and William Duncan was his brother.
We have a great many cousins, Uncle Willy married Aunt Rena (Gallagher) & I remember visits to them as a little girl… I follow any information I can find of distant cousins so it was lovely to read of two friends meeting up after so many years.
Emmalean Duncan