1. Under the clouds
I left home in Fife and went to live in Glasgow when I was eighteen. When I think of it now, the distance seems laughably small – forty miles, little more than an hour in the train – but the contrast between a village on the east coast and a city, Scotland’s largest, on the west coast was sharp and exciting. I had a bedsit in a dark street of better-class tenements, with a Polish delicatessen, a dance hall and a cinema just round the corner. Glasgow seemed an infinite place, never to be known completely no matter how many suburban bus terminals you reached or exploratory walks you made. It was 1963. The last trams had run the year before, but the city was still much its old self – smoke-blackened, run-down, Victorian, majestic, tipsy on beer and whisky on a Saturday night, hushed on a Sunday. More than a million people lived there then; forty years later, that figure had almost halved.
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Developers Berkeley are converting the grandiose Trent Park House, in Enfield, into 14 exquisite apartments.
A slice of British history has come on the market at Trent Park, in Enfield, north-east London. Developers Berkeley are converting the historic Trent Park House into a collection of 14 luxury apartments, which start from £1.245 million.
The result of a painstaking restoration that’s bringing the building back to its former glory, the apartments will be beautifully designed to complement the house’s architectural grandeur, with buyers able to choose between a traditional and a modern decorative scheme.
Trent Park House has seen many distinguished guests, including a young Princess Elizabeth.
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Despite being part of one of Ireland’s most eminent acting families, Calam told YouMustCreate.com that he didn’t always have plans to join the family trade.
“Until I was 19 I was much more interested in football than acting but I’ve always loved stories,” he has said.
“In fact one of my favourite things about football is the narrative, the drama. And I think it was a matter of time before I gave it a proper go. As a kid I really looked up to my cousin Max [Irons] so I think when he started acting professionally it made it seem like a much more real prospect.”