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1941 Nickodemus Kakta

  Anthony Smith has kindly shared this photo of his grandfather, Nickodemus Kakta. It was taken in May 1941 on the family’s allotment at the bottom row of Bairds Raws, Low Blantyre. The corrugated sheeting was the fence around Blantyre Celtic football ground,near the stand. While numbers of allotments fell in the 1920s and 1930s, following an increase […]