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 […]
Jim Cochrane shared this photo adding, “My Great Granny and two of her sisters. Mary Baird, later Struthers standing at the back. She stayed in New street off Stonefield road. Christine Baird, later Carmicheal seated left. She stayed in Small Cresent. Janet Baird (My Great Granny) seated right. She married Robert Main from Barnhill Farm […]
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 […]
23rd August 1969. My mum (Janet Duncan) plays pitch and putt at Blantyre Public Park in front of the boating pond. This was the first holiday my dad had to Scotland after he met mum. My dad took the photo. This is an important point….he loved Blantyre SO much saying it was tidy, SAFE, well […]
Everybody enjoys a good love story. What better uplifting tale to tell than one about a wee Blantyre lass, traveling off on adventures, falling in love and marrying behind the Iron Curtain! This is a story of exploration to foreign shores, of a Blantyre romance built to last and what’s so special about this couple, […]
Janet Herbertson was born in Blantyre in 1818. As she entered her twenties, she married local man Andrew Jackson and they settled down at their family home at Spittal, on the outskirts of Bardykes, Blantyre. Like others of the time, they planned a large family. So, in 1846, at the age of 28, Janet fell […]