This beautiful wedding photo is very special to me, for without these people being married, I wouldn’t be here! Pictured in 1934 is the wedding of my Grandparents, John Duncan and Mary Shaw Danskin. Thank you to John McArthur for this great copy. John Duncan was only 26 at the time living at 49 […]
A family photo next. In 1922, my grandmother Mary Danskin was pictured on the left, next to her sister Jenny. The girls lived above the family shop, a drapers at the corner of Broompark Road and Stonefield Road. (the shop that later became Collins’ Newsagents. Mary died in 1997 after a long and happy life. […]
Amazing the things that have been passed down from family members. This 1922 bible was an attendance prize given to my gran Mary Danskin for her attendance record at the United Free Church of Scotland, Blantyre. Gran would have been about 15 years old at the time. Did anybody else have prizes for attendance when […]