Finding a black and white, grainy photo of my mother , Janet Duncan from 1957, I realised she’s 10 years old in it, the same age as my daughter currently is. I decided to sharpen the photo, then coloured it, which I think, turned out rather well. Then, finally, using the better quality image, it […]
These two photos are dated 1968 or 1969. This is my mother Janet Duncan a year or so before she married my dad. With her are her nephews David, Allan and Douglas Glen, (whom you may know from Blantyre’s Glen Travel). At the time mum lived with her parents in Stonefield Crescent. The boys lived […]
Pictured here in 1968 in the back yard of Alexander Braidwood’s Building Yard, on the right in my mother Janet Duncan. I’m unsure who the person on the left is, but a Summers day was certainly being enjoyed by taking work outside. Braidwood Builders was located at 5 Logan Street, Low Blantyre where my mother […]
I like this photo. “Coronation Party Blantyre” written on the reverse. Incredibly that means i can date this precisely as 2nd June 1953. Photographed are kids celebrating the coronation of the Queen that day. This photo means a lot to our family as the little girl in the middle right with ribbons in her hair […]