East Kilbride at 75: Blythe Duff on growing up in Scotland's first new town

Blythe Duff was born in a house in Calderwood, East Kilbride, arriving into the world surrounded by references to Shakespeare due to the new town’s habit of clustering local street names around a certain theme. “The streets all had brilliant names” she says. “You live next to Edmond Kean and Hamlet and MacBeth, all these theatre refences on street signs. I wonder whether or not that was soaking into my subconscious from an early age. I only thought about that when I was older but I like the idea.”

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