Identifier | EERC/DG/DG17/4 |
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Interviewer | Milligan, Caroline |
Dates | interview: 2014-02-07 coverage: 20th century |
Extent | 1 digital audio file(s), 1 digital photograph(s), 1 papers |
Subject | Childhood, Community Life, Domestic Life, Customs and Traditions, Artillery, Army Personnel, Dumfries, Lochar Moss |
Interview summary | Interview with Bob MacDonald (aged 92) who was interviewed with his daughter, Heather McNay. Bob had lived in the Robert Burns Museum in Dumfries when he was a child and he begins by speaking about this. The museum was in one room and the family lived in the rest of the house until a curator's house was made available nearby. Bob could remember sleeping in the room where there was a cast of Burns' skull and some of the famous people, such as Harry Lauder, who visited the museum. As well as describing museum life, Bob also talks about the other buildings and businesses nearby. He recalls the model lodging houses where tramps used to stay overnight and remembers the practices at the town destructor where all the town refuse was burned. The waste was brought in by horse and cart and loaded into the furnaces. Further down was the wash-house and Bob explained that the heat from the furnaces provided the fuel to dry the clothes at the wash-house and provide water for the bath-house. Bob then goes on to speak about the siller gun contest, a tradition traditionally held on Lochar Moss outside Dumfries which dated back to the 17th century. Bob also talks about his time with the army, he served with the Parachute Regiment, and talks briefly about his time as an electrician. |
Access | Open |
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