Memoirs of a Lerwick Boy (Heftet (myke permer))

Bruce Sandison was born at Torry, in Aberdeen, in 1934. Had it not been for the vagaries of his parents' work following the herring fishing his birthplace would almost certainly have been the Auld Rock. Arriving in Shetland when only a few weeks old, from then to the outbreak of the Second World War the islands were in a depressed state.He was educated at Lerwick Central School in a regime which was as different from today's schooling as chalk to cheese. Serving an apprenticeship in the now defunct Shetland News, he later was with the Scotsman newspaper in Edinburgh. Returning from the city he spent thirty-one years as supervisor, then manager, at the BP Oil Depot at the North Ness.Over all the years he was very much involved with the Boys' Brigade movement both in Lerwick and throughout the islands, as well as many other voluntary commitments.He is now retired and lives in Lerwick with his wife Barbara and they have three sons.