My gran Mary Duncan (nee Danskin) used to collect recipes. In fact, she was a brilliant baker (as many ladies were in her generation) learning skills from her own mother. As a child of the 70s, i can remember home baking on almost every occasion and it seemed that gran was just never out of […]
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Danskins of Stonefield Crescent
This series of photographs are from my own family’s collection. They’re actually of my grandmother Mary Duncan (nee Danskin) and her own family. Up until the mid 1930’s my grandmother lived with her family at the family business premises which was divided into a draper’s shop and their home on the newly established Stonefield Crescent. […]