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 […]
This is a family photo taken at the end of WW2. Pictured are my aunts and uncle, from left to right, Nancy MacFarlane (nee Duncan), John Duncan and Margaret Glen (nee Duncan). They lived at the time in Stonefield Crescent. This was a couple of years before my mother was born.
This is a photo of my great Uncle Archie Danskin. The date is 1934 and the location is at the corner of Broompark Avenue and Stonefield Road, to be more precise at the back of Danskin’s shop (Later Collinses newsagents) Sporting a nice bicycle, he poses for the camera smartly dressed. In the background are […]
I look back at this photo with fond memories. The little boy is me! The girl, my friend and neighbour, Lesley Addison. This was in the back garden of the Veverka home at Stonefield Crescent. Our old Anderson Shelter in the background and the beginning of mum’s beautiful gardens. I still cant believe I had […]