Grace (also known by her married name of Grace Bryden) worked for many years in Glasgow’s pioneering domiciliary family planning service, helping to give women more choice and control in their lives, and improving their health.
Grace and her younger sister Jean were both born at home in Glasgow to Helen, an office worker, and Jim, a foreman at a company manufacturing lorries and buses. When the air raid sirens went off on the first night of the blitz in 1941, the family managed to get into a shelter in the nearby park, …
