The album photo tag says ‘Janet, just washed hair, 1965’. A summers picture, my mother Janet Duncan, the youngest in the family has a towel wrapped up around her wet hair. The old Anderson Shelter, then used as a hut is apparent, which lasted even until I was an adult. Also, the strange object in […]
Let’s go back 51 years with these treasured photos to Christmas 1970. This is my mother Janet Duncan and father Joe Veverka spending their first Christmas together as a married couple in Blantyre. My dad had only been in Scotland 11 months and as you see my mother is heavily pregnant, (I was born 2 […]
This is my mother, Janet Duncan back in 1969, then aged only 22. Pictured at Stonefield Public Park on 23rd August that year, she’s showing my father some pitch n putt skills. They were on an ‘international’ date, my dad on holiday in Scotland, the first time he’d ever been here! In the foreground beside […]
The newspaper clipping from June 1960 was shared by Sandy Wilkie to Blantyre Project. Sandy has been doing a bit of a clearout during lockdown and keeps unearthing some historical snippets. This is ‘Janet’ the last animal to pull a Wilkie horsedrawn milk cart! Janet was a 25 year old mare at the time who […]
You may have seen in previous years, at this time of year, I like to put up a photo of my own family Christmas past. Here’s my mother, Janet at Christmas 1970 at 10 Stonefield Crescent. I was born two months later, so I suppose you could say I’m in the photo too! I remember […]
Don’t know even where to start with all the thousands of photos our family has taken over the years! I fully intend on sorting them into dates and writing on the back of them, who when, where etc. I think this photo is Winter 1970. Here’s my mother Janet Veverka (nee Duncan) at Milheugh […]
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) […]