Iain Hunter spent his early childhood in Glasgow, Scotland, where his first home was an apartment in a tenement. He now lives in a seniors’ complex in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada. Join him as he relates the journey between these points: his childhood, education, career as an accountant in three countries, his courtship, marriage the vehicles and pets he has owned and on the way be introduced to his family and friends, both those who have predeceased him and those he expects will outlive him.
Excerpt from From War to Pandemic by Iain Hunter:
“The city into which I first greeted the world was a dark, soot- ridden place. The principal accommodation was tenements. Three to four storey apartment blocks built directly off the sidewalk. Public buildings were dark, having been deliberately disguised to make them less of a target to the Luftwaffe bombers.
Decorative railings were reduced to ground level stumps where they had been gleaned for materiel in the war effort. My first home was in one of these tenements.
I suspect my parents were fortunate in obtaining a home of their own when so many newlyweds shared their parents accommodation. I do not know what strings were pulled to get it, but I doubt that it was money as that was in short supply with my father’s income coming from his army pay and my mother working in retail and then the post office, neither of which could possibly have paid much more than a subsistence living.”
