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Interviews of Davie Graham aged 87

EERC/DG/DG27/10

Childhood Sports Fiddle tunes -- Scotland Mining Community Life Customs and Traditions Television Radio Broadcasting World War, 1939-1945

Detailed autobiographical interview with 87 year old Davie Graham. When Davie was a small child his father was made undermanager at Gateside Colliery and an early memory is of playing with his pedal ...

Interviews of Graham Wells

EERC/EL/EL11/8

Childhood Education Working life Housing Community Life Play Social Systems Music Sports Mining Banks and banking Ormiston Haddington Port Seton North Berwick Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland Dunbar Tranent

In this interview, Graham Wells (aged 46) from Ormiston talks about his childhood and working life in East Lothian. Graham recalls that his parents settled in Ormiston when they married. At that time...

Interviews of David Bertram

EERC/EL/EL15/4

Working life Mining Health and Safety Social Systems Community Life Politics

In this interview, David Bertram, (b.1938 in Pathhead) talks about going to school in the village and then becoming a miner. David didn't enjoy school (especially recalling the very strict headmaster...

Interviews of Elizabeth Strachan

EERC/EL/EL17/1

Community Life Social Systems Housing Working life Mining Music Pencaitland

In this interview, Elizabeth Strachan (aged 89, born Surrey) talks about her life in Pencaitland following her decision to move there in the mid 1970s. At that time, Elizabeth was a teacher in Edinbu...

Interviews of David Baird Mrs Baird and son by an unknown female,

EERC/EL/EL2/1

Working life Mining Community Life Social Systems Tranent East Fortune Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland

In this interview (EL2/1/1/1 track 1 of 2), the interviewees, Mr and Mrs Baird and their son discuss mining and living in Tranent. David Baird became a miner (like his father before him) after he lef...

Interview of Jennie Edmunds by an unknown female , 20th century

EERC/EL/EL2/13

Childhood Social Systems Community Life Health Mining Prestongrange Edinburgh

In this interview Janet (Jennie) Edmunds talks about her life and especially her childhood in Morrison's Haven. Her parents had moved there, returning from time in America, when her father got a job ...

Interviews of Mr and Mrs Glasgow by an unknown female ,

EERC/EL/EL2/16

Working life Mining Industrial Relations Prestonpans Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland

In the first track of 2 (EL2/16/1/1) Mr Glasgow (aged 82) talks about his life as a miner. He started work in 1913, at Prestonlinks colliery. His working day was 6am til 4pm and started with a 2 mil...

Interviews of Mr and Mrs Marr by an unknown female ,

EERC/EL/EL2/25

Childhood Working life Mining Domestic Life Recreation Housing Community Life Prestonpans Prestongrange Cockenzie

In this interview, Mr and Mrs Marr talk about their life in Prestonpans. Mr Marr had spent time in the Navy and the pits and laterly has been working at the Cockenzie power station, as a security ga...

Interviews of the Ormiston Group by an unknown female, bulk:

EERC/EL/EL2/28

Community Life Working life Gender Education Women Mining Health Domestic Life Industry Recreation Ormiston Tranent

In track 1 of 2 (EL2/28/1/1) the interviewer asks a group of Ormiston men about life and change over time. All of the men are older, apart from one, John, who is often called on to give a different p...

Interviews of David Spence by an unknown female, bulk:

EERC/EL/EL2/32

Working life Mining Industrial Relations Community Life Foodways Health Industry Seton, East Lothian, Scotland Prestonpans Edinburgh Tranent Musselburgh New Winton

In the first track of 4 (EL2/32/1/1), David Spence (b.c.1901) talks about his life in the mines. He explains how he started working when he was a boy, alongside his father, at the Fleets pit. Before...

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