Reader, Ann Irvine shared this lovely photo adding, “This is my parents. Martha Sim (deceased) from High Blantyre married John Irvine from Cambuslang. They wed in High Blantyre Parish Church on 12 July 1956” What a happy photo that is! I love seeing wedding photos from the 1950’s. People dressed so elegantly and the fashions seemed […]
Some more weddings from late in 1978 of various Blantyre folk. Do you know these people? First couple is a Blantyre couple who were married in 1978 in St Andrew’s Church. Miss Anne Sim of Devondale Avenue married John Nicholas of Atholl Court. Photographs were taken by Hughes Photography. The next couple are also both […]
Continuing a look at the 1960’s today with several more Blantyre Weddings. I’ve attempted to put more detail to these wedding photos and of course archive them and hundreds of others into a permanent archive of Blantyre Wedding Photos through the ages. Feel free to comment or tag people you know. Each of these 3 […]
Thanks to Lesley Sutherland for sharing this photo. Lesley wrote, “This is a photo of my mother Eva Sim (now Eva Brown) and her brother Peter Sim outside Buckingham Palace in 1951, aged 15 and 8. They travelled from Blantyre to London during the Festival of Britain. They lived in Bairds Rows than moved to […]