Heather McWilliam, who lives in New Zealand, recently shared these two Blantyre related photos. This is a photo of her aunt, uncle, and dad (Margaret, Archie and Jack McWilliam) and we believe it is in the back garden of 28 Stonefield Crescent, sometime around 1946. Heather told me, “I’ve also attached another picture taken the […]
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Stonefield Road, 1920’s
1965 Just Washed Hair
The album photo tag says ‘Janet, just washed hair, 1965’. A summers picture, my mother Janet Duncan, the youngest in the family has a towel wrapped up around her wet hair. The old Anderson Shelter, then used as a hut is apparent, which lasted even until I was an adult. Also, the strange object in […]
Christmas 1970
1955 Bus at Hunthill Road
This photo is from 1955. Taken 62 years ago, it’s somewhat of a coincidence, for that may just be the very number of the bus turning down into Stonefield Crescent. This wintery scene is captured from a garden in Hunthill Road and looks up towards the Cornerstone, when once a railway bridge crossed over […]
Air Raid Shelters & Wardens
1970 Joe and Janet Veverka Christmas
As we approach Christmas, thoughts can often turn to those loved ones no longer with us. Pictured here in December 1970, are my own parent Joe and Janet Veverka in the front Living room at Stonefield Crescent. They’re both just 23 years old and mum was 7 months pregnant with me, their first child. The […]