A family photo next from 1931. On the left is my grandfather John Duncan with his mother Maggie and two sisters Chrissie and Margaret. Pictured also on this day trip to the beach, along with the Duncans is Mary Danskin, on the front, the girlfriend of John and later to become my grandmother. John died […]
This is a family photo taken at the end of WW2. Pictured are my aunts and uncle, from left to right, Nancy MacFarlane (nee Duncan), John Duncan and Margaret Glen (nee Duncan). They lived at the time in Stonefield Crescent. This was a couple of years before my mother was born.
I need to be careful with this document as the paper is a wee bit crumbly. This is a poem written by my great, great grandmother Margaret Bowie Duncan just over 125 years ago in 1889. She had just moved from Wanlockhead leaving behind her friends, one of whom was Annie Wilson, whom this poem […]
Amongst the newspaper articles passed down to me from my late mum, is this Blantyre page from The East Kilbride News. Its dated Friday Dec 15th, 1972. Pictured on the left is my dad in the Anderson Church Drama Group. This was the drama group based in Stonefield Road. I also recognise Archie Duncan, Ronnie […]
This photo dates from 1919. Pictures at 49 Broompark Road in the back garden of a house called “Enterkin” in my great grandfather and great grandmother John Duncan and Maggie Bowie Duncan. They had four children, Jenny, Chrissie, Margaret and John (my grandfather). None of the girls ever had any children, the youngest Jenny dying […]
I thought I would share this family photo. It’s one of my favourites. Winter 1973 and I’m the little boy on the sledge. Pictured also is my mother, attentively looking after me, making sure I had fun that day. I think this was taken at the top Calder, not far from Hunthill Road. Although I […]
The things you find in the back of cupboards! What a cheek! Council charged our family £37 in 1966 for a 5 foot bath. That’s about £500 in today’s money! Suppose they never had council tax then. Not sure which is more sad, the fact that I’m posting this as a little piece of Blantyre […]