EERC/DG/DG26/11
Interview with Agnes Lamb, aged 83. Agnes talks about her early life on a farm on the edge of Stranraer called Larg. Her father trained horses and the family also grew potatoes and Agnes recalled th...
EERC/DG/DG26/31
Interview with John McColm and Bob Grierson, farmers who had grown potatoes in the Stranraer area. The focus of this interview is the Irish potato squads who came to work on the farms in the west of ...
EERC/DG/DG41/2
Biographical interview with Walter McDonald (aged 66) whose grandfather had worked with Archie MacAlistair & Sons before setting up his own business as a seed potato grower at Nunholme Farm, on the ou...
EERC/DG/DG41/3
Biographical interview with retired seed potato merchant, James Henderson (aged 78) who was born in Dumfries. James charts the history of the family business. James recalls that his father's decisio...
EERC/DG/DG41/4
Biographical interview with Louise Kerr (b.1959) whose father ran the ironmonger's shop in Port William. Louise explained that she had been born at the family farm near Whauphill. However, after the...
