; a Football Legend Cut Down in His Prime. Local Laundrette. This Photo of the Father He Never Knew [Scot Region]
Mail on Sunday › April 24, 2011
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THE couple in the faded photograph are newly in love. He is smartly dressed and wraps a protective arm around her. She wears a fashionable coat and a scarf covers her hair, but not her prettiness.
The picture also holds a heartbreaking secret, which is why it has been buried in a dusty album for 50 years.See the full content of this document
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; a Football Legend Cut Down in His Prime. Local Laundrette. This Photo of the Father He Never Knew [Scot Region]
The romance between 19-year-old laundrette girl Helen McLean and John White, a 23-year-old doing his National Service with the King's Own Scottish Borderers, was never spoken about by their families.
That was because, just weeks after the photograph was taken in 1959, Helen became pregnant - and was deserted by John, who never s...See the full content of this document
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