Interviews of Mrs Fisher

In this interview, Mrs Fisher (b.c.1911) talks to David Hannay about her life in Carsluith. Mrs Fisher's father moved to Carsluith as a teacher in 1919 and remained there until 1930. By that time, Mrs Fisher was married and she and her husband moved into Waterloo Cottages, where she has been ever since. Mrs Fisher talks about how the community has changed over time and she remembers the different families who have lived in the cottages over the years. Many of them came to Carsluith to work in the quarry and Mrs Fisher could remember the rail trucks which brought stone to the pier and the different boats that came to take the rocks away.

About change over time, Mrs Fisher said that she was sad that so many of the cottages were now holiday lets and said she missed the sense of community. She and David talk about each Waterloo cottage in turn, recalling who lived in each. They also talk about the school and its changing fortunes over the decades. Towards the end of the interview, Mrs Fisher recalls the damaging storms which occurred in the 1960s and said this happened when gale force winds combined with a high tide.