With thanks to Maureen Friery who shared her beautiful wedding photo here adding it to the growing archive. Maureen messaged me this week saying, “I lived at 49 Morven Avenue, Blantyre at the time of marriage. My husband’s name is Hugh Moran and he lived at 3 Tynecastle Place, Glasgow. We were married in St. […]
Elizabeth Grieve (nee Dobson) wrote to me recently saying, “I thought I would forward a photo to you regarding your wedding section. It’s a very old one and not an official photo of my parents wedding from 6 March 1965. Because my mother was from the mining village of Fallin, Stirlingshire, they were married there […]
Carolyn Whittaker shared this photo of her parent’s Blantyre wedding. Maisie Brownrigg of 26 Birdsfields Drive married Jim Whittaker of Auchinraith Road at Blantyre Old Parish Church on the 17th July 1965. Carolyn told me, “Once married they stayed with my Mums parents for 5 months before getting their own flat in East Kilbride […]
I’ve recently had several people email me wishing to add wedding photos to the growing Blantyre Project Wedding Archive, a feature proving quite popular. Helen Reilly, kindly took time to scan and send over these 2 photos of her parents wedding day in Blantyre in 1957. Helen told me, “My Mum & Dad married in St.Josephs […]
Back in May 2017, I had the pleasure of meeting Betty and Alex Mclean who dropped in at my Blantyre home whilst on holiday from Canada, whilst visiting family nearby. We spent an hour in the garden talking about Blantyre and Canada and it was wonderful to put faces to names, after emailing back and […]
Pictured here on their wedding day on 27/03/1967 is Gerald Kellachan of Montieth Place, Blantyre and Moira Innes of Castle Chimmins Ave, Halfway who were married in St Cadoc’s Halfway. The photo is added to our large and expanding wedding photo archive on the main Blantyre Project website. I have older history about the […]
Wishing to add a wedding photo to the large growing collection of Blantyre wedding photos on Blantyre Project, Carole Mackie Rickard told me, “Here’s a pic of my Mum & Dads. Marion (Myra) Laird of 3 Morag Avenue, married Jim Mackie of 297 Glasgow Road at David Livingstone Memorial Church on 1st August 1964. […]