Let’s have some more Blantyre Weddings! To 1980 next…. First up is Miss Andreena Geddes who lived in Hardie Street. She married sweetheart Cameron Black from Clydebank. The couple married in High Blantyre. Next, is Miss Ann Symons of Stanley Place how married EK man Neil Durie. The couple married at the Congregational Church. As […]
Some more weddings from 1980. Do you recognise any of the couples? First up is Miss Elaine Martin of Wheatlands Avenue who married Hamilton man Alexander Hall. They married at High Blantyre Old Parish Church. Emily McNaught married Kenneth Rorke in 1980. Emily from Atholl Court in High Blantyre and Kenneth from Strathaven. The couple […]
Jean Buchanan of Whitehill married James McSkimming of Calder Street, Blantyre in 1968, marrying in Burnbank. Colette Lawlor and Richard Braidwood both of Belvoir Place married in 1968 at Livingstone Memorial Church. Do you know any of the couples. Their photos are added to the archive. If as always, anybody featured here does not want […]
Moving on to some weddings from 1980. (Was that really 39 years ago?!) Do you recognise any of the couples. We hope they have had long and happy marriages. All into the archives on Blantyre Project. As always, if any person featured in these photos wishes them to be removed from the archive, please just […]
This happy photo is a wedding on 16 March 1957 at the former Stonefield Parish Church, Glasgow Road, Low Blantyre. Marion Cameron and John Brownlie left the church as man and wife, with the Blantyre scouts in attendance. With thanks to Marion for sharing this photo (via A Rochead)
Karen McQuade share this photo, which was taken around 1955 or 1956. It was clearly taken at St Joseph’s RC Church in Blantyre. Her dad, Owen is the best man but does anybody know who the Bride and Groom are? Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by others on or offline, our […]
Some weddings of Blantyre folk who were married in 1980. First up is James Craig from 62 Station Road who married Hamilton lady Modena Spears. The couple married in David Livingstone Church on Glasgow Road. Jean Kyle of Auchentibber Court, High Blantyre married George Lawson, from Douglas. The couple married in 1980 in Burnbank. and […]