Thank you to Gail Duncan, for sharing these photos. The date is 1971, the location, Low Blantyre Public Park at Stonefield. These Gala day photos show Gail’s aunt being crowned Gala Queen. Gail told me, “My aunts name at the time was Joan hunter and she was Blantyre YMCA gala queen the newspaper one shows […]
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1953 The Three “Horrors”
During Christmas 2014, Linda Mackie contacted me sharing this family photo. Linda told me, “Here is a photo of my mum, (Mary Mackie nee Pearson, my foster grannie Sarah Cook, myself, Linda, my wee sisters Ann and Jane in the public park at Blantyre in 1953/4 summer of…as you can see my Dad wrote underneath […]
1936 Glasgow Road after trams
Wartime Battles Celebrated
A sunny Summer’s day in Blantyre June 1943 was the venue for a wartime celebration. To commemorate the victories of the British Eighth Army and the Russian Army at Stalingrad, two trees were planted on Saturday 19th June 1943 at Low Blantyre Public Park. Both trees were planted by the Fifth Lanark District Council. Major […]