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 […]
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 […]
It’s been a difficult couple of years. People taken from us before they should be. This is often a difficult time of year for some people and makes us all a little bit more nostalgic. Today, on Christmas Day, I’m pausing to remember absent relatives and hope you’ll join me in raising a glass to […]
These were special, happy times when the whole family got together to celebrate. No games consoles, ipads or phones. New generations of kids, cousins spending time actually playing together and my gran’s home baking would never be far away.
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 […]
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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 […]