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 […]
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Merry Christmas from Blantyre Project! We wish all our readers, peace, happiness and love. A poem for reflection on this special day. “Blantyre Relatives, we miss so dearly” Presents unwrapped with festive cheer, We sip mulled wine, the holy day here. Children’s laughter, games and fun, Food aplenty, gorged our tums. Blantyre basks in Christmas […]
On Christmas Eve 1877, a meeting was held in the Stonefield Mission House, the purpose of which was to present 300 bibles to the Blantyre Disaster Widows and orphans. Grief was still apparent, only 2 months after the disaster that claimed over 200 men and boys. The bibles were donated by the National Bible […]