Airdrie welcomed a special visitor making a long-awaited trip of a lifetime – a transatlantic tourist who is the sixth generation of her family to be called after the Lanarkshire town.
Canadian woman Airdrie Thompson Guppy, nee Bell, is named after the town where her great-great-great-grandfather Reverend William Bell was born and from which he emigrated to Ontario more than 200 years ago.
She enjoyed a whistlestop tour of the town during her first-ever visit to Scotland, calling it “bustling and interesting” and praising its “very pleasant and helpful” people who were interested to hear her unique story.
