Interviews conducted by Tania Gardner

Tania Gardner was born and brought up in High Street, Kirkcudbright. After local schooling at Kirkcudbright Academy primary department, Castledykes and Kirkcudbright Academy she went on to Jordanhill Training College in Glasgow where she trained as a teacher. She taught in the Glasgow area before returning to Kirkcudbright in 1986 with her family.

Of her reasons for participating in the Study, Tania said: I am interested in people and their relationships. I also love Kirkcudbright. This town has an excellent cross section of society who all work well together to make this a very community orientated town.

Having lived in High Street all my young life I was interested to hear what others who’d lived there remembered and what was important to them. Everyone was shy of recording their voice but all agreed it had been a most worthwhile experience. It certainly was for me and I am grateful to them all for sharing their memories with me.

Tania Gardner conducted a total of 16 recordings with 13 interviewees. The interviews were carried out between 2012 and 2014.