Name : Tom Benson

Age : 62

Where are you from : Glasgow, Scotland

A little about yourself, i.e. your education, family life, etc  

I’m the oldest of four boys and two girls. I was eight years old when my three brothers, my parents and I, moved out from a single-room in a rundown tenement in the east end of Glasgow. We set up home in what to us, was a luxurious two-bedroom apartment in Drumchapel, a sprawling housing estate on the city’s western boundary. I was a natural scholar and artist, so I excelled at lessons, but due to lack of financial backing I was destined to leave school at 15. That was how it was in 1967.

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