Irene Tilley is now 67 and has been living in Dundee for three years after a married life in various postings with her soldier husband and many years in Kent.

She was brought up at 52 East Clyde Street in Helensburgh, near the school and beside the plumber’s business that is still there. She herself went on to the Hermitage School – now Hermitage Academy and was wonderstruck by its new buildings on her last visit to the town. Her grandfather, who fought in the first World War, was a tailor in the town with a shop in Sinclair Street.

Irene has cousins in Helensburg, one of whom, Helen, was in the Wrens and she has several other cousins in the area – stretching into Dumbarton.

Irene wants to come home now. She has itchy feet to get back to her own place and there couldn’t be a better year to think this way. She got in touch with us this morning and asked us for help. She wants to know what the current situation is with 52 Clyde Street, as she has a sentinental attachment to that building. She’d also be delighted to get information on any other suitable place a pensioner like herself could afford to rent – and she would go as far as Dumbarton, although Helensburgh’s the place that tugs the heartstrings.

If anyone can help her she would love to hear from them and has asked us to publish her contact details. Her phone is: 01382 642258. Her address is: 13 McGonagall Square, Dundee DD2 1AJ

There may also be people who knew her during her earlier life in the town and she would obviously be delighted if anyone from then made contact with her – especially in this year of homecoming.