Pauline Bell writes, “Hi, I hope you can help me. My father Ian Bell was born at 90 Victoria Street Blantyre in 1934. I have needed to know all off my life about his parents and upbringing and can’t get anywhere. Is there anything you can tell me that might help me out or point […]
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Cosgrove Tragedy 1877
In June 2016, Norbert McEwan wrote to me saying, “Two distant relatives of mine…..James and Francis Cosgrove are listed amongst the dead in the terrible 1877 Blantyre disaster. Their sister was my grandmother ( Margaret Cosgrove) on my own dad’s side. I am trying to find out more detail about the family…..in particulat about my […]
1960 Jim Nimmo
Margaret Lehman Nimmo has sent in this photo of her brother, Jim Nimmo. Margaret added, “This photo was taken 1960/61ish. It’s my brother who was Scout Master and a trophy won by the High Blantyre Scouts. Unfortunately he cannot remember exactly what the trophy was for, you may even know yourself with so much […]
Wartime Duncan Children
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.