Inside East Kilbride, the new town being knocked down and rebuilt

Inside East Kilbride, the new town being knocked down and rebuilt

“This is where B block was,” says Tam Mitchell “over there was a cricket pitch…it was like a community for workers.” The 57-year-old former Rolls-Royce engineer is standing on the site of the factory where he once worked just outside of East Kilbride town centre. B-block made history in the 70s when workers refused to repair engines which belonged to planes that were being used to take power by Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in a violent mili…