Laurie was born and lived in Clydebank until 1941. At the age of three she was evacuated to Ardrishaig when her parents home in Radnor Street Clydebank was destroyed in the Blitz. She has always stayed in the vicinity and came to live in Dalmuir in 1980.

Laurie has been a serving member of the Management Committee for over 25 years. " I joined the management committee in 1981 to see if something could be done about the condition of the building that I was staying in at the time, a basement flat in the tenement at the bottom of Duntocher Road".

One Thursday in 1982 the good news came through that the building was to be repaired, I was of course delighted. On the following Saturday the back wall collapsed. On Sunday the whole building had to be demolished. It was all quite a drama.

"Through Dalmuir Park Housing Association I have become involved in Lynx Care, Community Links, Employers in Voluntary Housing, Urban 11 and Clydebank Rebuilt."

Laurie is a keen landscape painter, reads widely and has a high interest in architecture being a member of the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland.

In the future Laurie would love the Association to have the opportunity to build more new houses and to be involved in the design and building of a future project.

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