It was a taste of the ‘life on the ocean wave’ in October 1977 for the wife of Blantyre born sailor John McCarroll. Denise McCarroll joined her husband on his ship HMS Gurkha, during an open day for sailors’ families in the firth of Forth. John (22), was a Marine Engineering Mechanic 1st Class and […]
In early June, Catherine Murray sent me this story. Her niece had written it about her papa, a Blantyre man. Catherine told me, “Dad Jock McCarroll (68 yrs just now) grew up in the pre-fabs in Mossgiel Street, Blantyre and Jade McCarroll, his granddaughter was 16 years when she wrote this poem about her Papa.” […]