Some more photos from my family album. Taken 52 years ago, this is December 1970 as my 23 year old mother Janet Veverka (nee Duncan) is heavily pregnant with me. This was at Stonefield Crescent in the family home as mum and dad celebrated their first year together as a married couple. The family pet […]
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Sabbath School Soirees, 1904
Yuletide was made all the more memorable in December 1904 by various Sabbath Schools in Blantyre. Well attended, thoughtful meetings by the children and their Sunday school teachers were held at the various churches in the town. Blantyre East U.F Church, Blantyre Parish Church and Stonefield Parish church followed their traditional customs with gifts given […]
To Absent Relatives
1971 Christmas
1970 Christmas at Stonefield Crescent
Let’s go back 51 years with these treasured photos to Christmas 1970. This is my mother Janet Duncan and father Joe Veverka spending their first Christmas together as a married couple in Blantyre. My dad had only been in Scotland 11 months and as you see my mother is heavily pregnant, (I was born 2 […]
Merry Christmas Everybody
I’d like to say ‘Merry Christmas’ and thank you to all 14,503 people subscribed and who follow Blantyre Project posts so avidly here each day. Your continued support drives me on and keeps me highly motivated. As always, I’ve learned so much about Blantyre this last year reading all your wonderful comments and keeping me on an accurate […]
Christmas Morning in the Beer Cellar
It was the early, dark hours of Christmas Morning 1916. Everybody had gone to sleep after the festivities of Christmas Eve. Young children were fast asleep fuelled with excitement for what the morning had in store. All was still in the streets of Blantyre, though around 3.00am, there was somebody out and about on Glasgow […]