Elizabeth Grieve (nee Dobson) wrote to me recently saying, “I thought I would forward a photo to you regarding your wedding section. It’s a very old one and not an official photo of my parents wedding from 6 March 1965. Because my mother was from the mining village of Fallin, Stirlingshire, they were married there […]
The National Unemployed Workers’ Movement was a British organisation set up in 1921 by members of the Communist Party of Great Britain. It aimed to draw attention to the plight of unemployed workers during the post World War I slump, the 1926 General Strike and later the Great Depression, and to fight the Means Test. During the 1930’s members of this organisation paid a weekly 1d. Mr. […]
On 12th November, Ian Dobson contacted me , sending in this photo from 1959. He told me, “The man with the greyhound is my dad’s father William Dobson. Not sure which track but he and my dad had greyhounds almost all their life. My dad used to take me too the dogs in Blantyre when […]