Dumfries and Galloway Regional Study
EERC/DG
302 interviews (346 audio files) amounting to approximately 221 hours of material. Work carried out by 49 fieldworkers with 277 interviewees (135 male, 142 female) Some video and photographic mater...
Interviews conducted by Kerry Allan
EERC/DG/DG1
Kerry Allan conducted 2 interviews made with 1 interviewee, carried out in 2012.
Interviews conducted by Marion Campbell
EERC/DG/DG8
Marion Campbell conducted 3 recordings with a total of 1 interviewee. The interview was carried out in 2012.
Interviews of John Dickenson aged 79
EERC/DG/DG17/6
Childhood
Nature
Working life
Domestic Life
Literature
Storytelling
History
Archaeology
Landscape
Dumfries (Scotland)
Kendoon
Carsphairn
Loch Einich
Biographical interview with John Dickenson (b. 1936, Kirkcudbright). John talks about his early life and family and his life-long interest in history and landscape. John's father worked for the Gall...
Interviews of George McMillan aged 72
EERC/DG/DG1/1
Agriculture
Childhood
Games
Landscape
Nature
Social Life and Customs
World War, 1939-1945
Foodways
Evacuees
Auchenbrack
Craigneston
Kilnhouse
Moniaive
DG1/1/1 Interview one of two with George McMillan, who was born at Craigneston farm in 1940. George was born into a farming family and describes life at Craigneston including, travelling to school, g...
Interviews of Phyllis Harvey aged 84
EERC/DG/DG2/1
Family
Agriculture
Dairy Farming
Living Conditions
Foodways
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1939-1945
Landscape
Nature
Tramps
Gunpowder Mills
Creetown
Glenquicken
Carsluith
Garrochar
Knockeans Hill
Carsegowan
Glasgow
Newton Stewart
This is the first of two autobiographical interviews with Phyllis (Fay) Harvey. Part 1 conducted in May 2012.
Interviews of John Armstrong aged 72
EERC/DG/DG3/3
Customs and Traditions
Working life
Agriculture
Neighbouring
Sheep herding
Nature
Birds
Foot-and-mouth disease
Social Life and Customs
Peat Bogs (Habitats)
Mosses
World War, 1939-1945
Hawick
Terrona, Dumfries and Galloway
Langholm
Interview with John Armstrong while he was out cutting peats on his peat hag at Middlemoss. John, who has been a herd at Terrona, Middlemoss for 46 years, describes his working life in detail. The pe...
Interviews of Isobel Sutherland aged 57
EERC/DG/DG8/1
Education
Working life
Agriculture
Recreation
Childrens games
Dancing
Business
Landscape
Nature
Transport
Needlework
Religion
Foodways
Kirkcudbright
Newton Stewart
Castle Douglas
Dumfries (Scotland)
Ringford, Dumfries and Galloway
Twynholm
Tarff
Martyrs Monument, Dumfries and Galloway
Tongland
Interview 1 of 3 (DG8/1/1/1) with Isobel Sutherland which focuses on her life in Ringford, where she lived from aged 5 until she married aged 20. Isobel gives details about her early school life and ...
Interviews of John Allan aged 98
EERC/DG/DG33/1
First of 2 biographical interviews (DG33/1/1/1, July 14 2014) with John Allan (aged 98) who spent his early life in Newton Stewart and has also lived in Gatehouse of Fleet, Collin and Dumfries. John...
Interviews of Archie Wright aged 82
EERC/DG/DG36/1
Childhood
Travel and Holidays
Nature
Landscape
Religion
Community Life
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1939-1945
Twynholm
Kirkcudbright
Autobiographical interview with Archie Wight who used to visit his aunt and uncle in a cottage on the Cumstoun estate near Twynholm in the late 1930s and early years of World War 2. Topics covered in...