[[Category:Authors|Beaven, W Scott]]
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I was born in Glasgow but brought up and went to school in South Shields, by the coast in North-east England. When I was sixteen, I left school and returned to Glasgow where I worked as a trainee [sweeping floors; packing boxes] for a Builders Hardware Merchant called George Boyd &Co. I lived on the infamous Easterhouse Housing Estate where people really did throw dogs [and babies] out of the 18th floor window when they demanded too much attention.