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 […]
Familiar? This is Danskins Drapery shop at the corner of Stonefield Road and Broompark Road, a shop which is now a newsagents. This was home to my grandmother Mary Danskin and her family and with this photo getting on to be a hundred years old, its a good look back at what was once there. […]
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 […]
You may have seen in previous years, at this time of year, I like to put up a photo of my own family Christmas past. Here’s my mother, Janet at Christmas 1970 at 10 Stonefield Crescent. I was born two months later, so I suppose you could say I’m in the photo too! I remember […]
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 […]
Betty McLean in Canada asks, “I am wondering if you have done any research on streets where there may have been air raid shelters? I think there was an Anderson shelter in the back garden in the house next door to 61 Welsh Drive where I lived with my parents and grandfather. I also […]
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 […]