Interviews of Mr Galloway

In this interview, Mr Galloway (b.1906) who was born in Kirkmabreck, tells David Hannay about his life in Carsluith. Mr Galloway's father worked at the old Scottish Granite quarry before that closed and then moved to Bagbie farm. Mr Galloway recalled his grandmother, who was the local howdie (midwife). She would also attend to anyone who had died and he remembered that her own coffin was of plain wood with a black cloth lining. Mr Galloway moved to Waterloo when he was five or six years old and attended Carsluith school.

He recalls a shop in Carsluith where he bought his first, and only, pack of cigarettes. He recalls a community where everyone knew everyone else. He left school at 14 and worked first at Bagbie quarry. He also spent time as a ploughman at Bagbie. He talks in detail about his working life at both the quarry and farm, recalling various people along the way. Towards the end of the interview, he talks more about this grandmother and said she would always be called first to births as the doctor would have to cycle from Creetown.