Fifteen neighbours on the Bonnie banks of Loch Lomond scooped £1m in a huge Postcode Lottery win.
The families of G83 8SY in Balloch, Dunbartonshire, were all overcome by emotion as they each received a cheque for £66,666.
Grandad Tommy Gilmour cheated death twice before picking up the nest egg. The 71-year-old was hit by a bus in December last year and the watch he was wearing saved his arm from being ripped off.
Just two years earlier he was left in a coma after complications during neck surgery.
Tommy – who shares three children and five grandchildren with wife Maureen, 68 – said the couple are planning on spending their winnings on a new automatic car, a trip abroad and a surprise for their family.
He said: “It’s a tremendous win, I can’t believe it. It’s nice to share it with so many others in the street.
“We’ve been looking at getting another car. There will be a family holiday coming up too.”
And he joked that wife Maureen is terrified of what might happen to him next.
He said: “She’s ordered some bubble wrap from Amazon.”
Great grandmother Aileen Suter, 64, plans to complete her and her late husband’s bucket list – including scuba diving in the Great Barrier of Rife and raving at Glastonbury – after he passed from cancer in January last year aged 66.
She said: “Tommy and I had always talked about going to Australia. I’ve always wanted to go and see the Great Barrier Reef and visit French Polynesia.
“So, the two of them are definitely going to get ticked off the bucket list.”
She admitted that the win is bittersweet without her “soulmate” of 41 years by her side.
Aileen added: “Tommy literally retired in September, and he passed away four months later.
“He was my soulmate. He was just fabulous. I do always feel as though I’ve got somebody looking out for me, somebody’s got my back…he’s always with me.”
Catherine Curran, 68 and husband Paul – who teaches Naval recruits at Faslane – plan to splash their cash on a camper van.
Retired arts therapist Catherine said: “It’s something we’ve always had a notion to do and looked at it last year. We’ve always travelled abroad and now it’s time to look at places closer to home.”
Just 10 doors along, Catherine’s younger brother Alex Gillies, 66, was also joining in the party when his recently retired wife Kay, 63, landed the same prize. Now the couple – who have two children – are planning a dream trip back to South Africa, where they both used to live, as well as ploughing ahead with a planned downstairs loo extension.
Along the road, winner Robin Crawford’s wife breathed a sigh of relief when he pocketed £66,666 after ignoring her calls to cancel Postcode Lottery. They plan to travel Scotland in a swanky new caravan with their aptly-named Cocker Spaniel Penny.
Retired support worker Fiona, 66, said: “I said to stop doing it because there was no chance of us getting it. But he didn’t, thank goodness.
Robin quipped: “I bought a new set of Cobra golf clubs five weeks ago. I ordered them before I knew I had won this.”
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