Photography legend Jimmy Muncie was a Carluke man!

FOR decades there was a man at Carluke’s annual Remembrance Sunday homage who just shouldn’t have been there.

By The Newsroom

Published 2nd Dec 2013, 15:30 BST

Jim Muncie photographer from Carluke died 25/12/08
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Picture by Lindsay Addison — Jim Muncie photographer from Carluke died 25/12/08 22/11/08 Picture by Lindsay Addison

In his latter years, when folk asked the town’s legendary freelance photographer Jimmy Muncie why, years after his retirement and then in a frail state of health, he insisted on taking the Gazette’s pictures at the Market Square war memorial on a usually freezing November Sunday, his reply was simple...and almost as chilling as the weather.

“Because MY name should be on that Memorial with the rest of the lads,” he said.

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