A wonderful photo from the early 1950’s featuring Mr Duncan of Little’s Building at Larkfield, Stonefield Road. Bill told me, “This is my dad at the coal cellars probably sweeping up after a coal delivery. Our house rear window is not visible in the photo, but it’s located to the left of the low rise […]
This photo was taken in the early 1950’s at the back of Little’s Building, a tenement on Stonefield Road, at Larkfield. Pictured are brothers William (Bill) and Alex Duncan. During the 1950’s the Duncan family lived next door to the Robertson family (who may have had previous family connections back to the name of the […]
Thank you to Bill Duncan for sharing his school photo here. Bill told me recently, “This is my class photo from High Blantyre Primary School, the year, not sure, but circa 1950. I left primary school in 1952, this was my historical moment of fame year as I was presented with the Dux (top pupil) […]
Walking in Greenhall Park in August 2015, I noticed that large areas of the sloping field were covered in little mounds of earth. This is of course due to the burrowing nighttime activity of moles. It reminded me of my grandmother, Mary Duncan (nee Danskin) of Stonefield Crescent. During the 1970’s, my gran, then in […]
This is one of my family photos and features my own mother, Janet Duncan in the middle. On the back is says “calder 1959” making her about 11 or 12. My mother went on to marry Joe Veverka ten years later, and has sadly passed away in 2009. Pictured left is her friend Lillias (now Addison) […]
A family photo next. Dated 21st August 1954. Pictured on the left is my mother Janet Duncan, with her big sister, Nancy MacFarlane (also nee Duncan). I was told by Nancy recently that this photo was taken at Largs, where I’d previously thought it to be Hamilton. Mum would only have been 6 years old […]
Thanks to Historic Hamilton for sharing this article with us. The photo is owned by Sonja Dyve Foggett who now lives in Newcastle. In the picture is Blantyre man Duncan Sillars who was Sonja’s father in Law. Duncan is back row 3rd from the right and it was taken around the 1940s. The Sillars family […]