With thanks to Scott Browne who has shared this great photo of Hardie Street. I’ve zoomed in as its in better detail than the postcard I’ve previously posted. In the background, a figure walks along the pavement. This is the 1930’s, the houses built just a few years earlier the previous decade. The vantage point […]
Scott Browne who lives in Canada has shared this photo, which was taken in the 1930’s in Hardie Street not too long after the houses were built the previous decade. This is a zoomed in extract of a postacard of Hardie Street with Scott providing a high resolution copy. He told me, “My relatives lives […]
Elizabeth Knowles sent me a message saying, “Elizabeth Dick Fraser, born 1940 Morris Crescent. Mother Tina Hill, died when I was 10, her father Jock Hill and mother Elizabeth Dick. My father Jim Fraser remarried but my grandmother Maggie Fraser, nee McPhail, brought me up with Grandad John James (JJ) Fraser, very much involved with […]
Continuing our look at the weddings of some Blantyre folks. Still with 1978. Miss Janis Dunn of 57 Ballantrae Road, High Blantyre married Mr James Eley, 126 Farm Road, Burnbank in Blantyre Old Parish Church in early 1978. Blantyre couple Miss Agnes Green of 223b Glasgow Road married Paul McManus of 57 Livingstone Crescent […]
I recently met with Alex Rochead and Gordon Cook for coffee in April 2015. We got to discussing the old Hardie Street postcard and what was in the background. Was it the Gasworks of Stonefield Road? Was it the Larkfield Bing? Alex clarified the mystery by taking a modern photo of Hardie Street which shows […]
In April 1947 came, all the way across three thousand miles of the Atlantic from New York a four-year-old Scots boy. Clarence M’Donald, flew alone to live with his grandparents in Blantyre. Clarence played happily with his toys on the flight over on a Pan- American Airways liner. When the plane arrived at London airport, […]