This photo was taken in Auchinraith Road in 1938. Pictured is Neil Scotts Granpa Gardner , his sister Mary and her daughter Kate. I was looking at 1936 maps to see if i could find this location. My best guess was that it was taken near the end of Auchinraith Road near Herbertson Street behind […]
A family photo next from 1931. On the left is my grandfather John Duncan with his mother Maggie and two sisters Chrissie and Margaret. Pictured also on this day trip to the beach, along with the Duncans is Mary Danskin, on the front, the girlfriend of John and later to become my grandmother. John died […]
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 […]
From 1923, on the left is my grandmother Mary Danskin (later to become Duncan). In the middle is my great grandmother Agnes Danskin (nee Hunter) and on the right my gran’s sister. At the time, the family owned the drapers shop at the corner of Broompark Road/ Stonefield Road which we now recognise as the […]
Photo on the left is from 1929 my great aunt Jenny Danskin outside the back of the drapers shop at the corner of Stonefield Crescent and Broompark Road. On the right in 1925 is Mary Danskin (later Mary Duncan) my gran. The location on the right in unknown. Both girls were part of the Danskin […]
Blantyre Project reader Mary Peat DeSarno lives in New Jersey USA. It’s always great to hear from people outside the UK that have connections to Blantyre. Mary emailed me in July 2014 saying “I lived in Blantyre from 1947 – 1952. We lived at 242a Glasgow Road with my gran, Sarah Peat. We lived next […]
I love this photo from the mid 1930’s. Pictured on the left in the white dress is my gran Mary Danskin and her sisters, Jean, Agnes & Nellie. The Danskins lived in the drapers shop at the cross in Stonefield Road (more recently known as Collinses Newsagents). This Summer 1934 photo is taken in the […]