“It was a beautiful day. And Drumchapel was a great place to live.”
It was the late 60s and – she believes – the first time Glasgow’s new housing scheme had held a ‘coronation’ as part of the annual celebrations.
Like fellow schemes Castlemilk, Easterhouse and Pollok, “the Drum” was to become a self-contained satellite township with its own shops, schools, churches, open spaces and facilities. Born in 1956, she lived in a top floor flat on Kinfauns Drive with her mum and dad Jack and Jan and brother Jason.“The view from our lounge stretched all the way to the Canniesburn plastic surgery hospital,” says Janice, smiling.
Sadly both of Janice’s parents died young, Jack at the age of 50, and Jan at 57, just nine years after her husband.
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