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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 Isobel Pensom

EERC/EL/EL13/2

Education Community Life Language Festivals Childhood Architecture Gender Social Systems Foodways Cockenzie Tranent Port Seton

In interview 1 of 2 (EL13/2/1/1) Isobel Pensom (aged 68) talks about her childhood in East Lothian and particularly the family home, known as the Barracks, where she lived as a child and later as an a...

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...

Interviews of Maisie and Tommy Dodds by Colin MacDonald,

EERC/EL/EL2/11

Childhood Domestic Life Foodways Recreation Social Life and Customs Education Tranent Musselburgh

In this interview, Colin MacDonald (a child himself at this time) interviews his grandparents Maisie (b.1917) and Tommy (b. 1914) Dodds about their childhood. He speaks to Maisie first. Maisie had 4...

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...

Interviews conducted at St Mary's School by school pupils ,

EERC/EL/EL2/33

Childhood Working life Community Life World War, 1939-1945 shops Rationing Haddington Dunbar Tranent

In this track, pupils of St Mary's school in Haddington present the findings of their investigation into life in the area during World War 2. As well as exploring paper resources the children made a ...

Interviews of Mrs Veitch by David Fisher,

EERC/EL/EL2/39

Childhood Working life Clothing Language Childrens games Customs and Traditions Travel and Holidays Mining Foodways Christmas Musselburgh Tranent

In the first track of 4 (EL2/39/1/1), Mrs Veitch (born c.1903) talks about her early childhood at Olive Bank, Musselburgh, where she lived with her grandmother, aunt and uncle. She was raised by her ...

Interviews of John McMillan

EERC/EL/EL12/2

Childhood Education Community Life Social Systems Working life Civil Servants Business Housing Politics Macmerry Tranent Haddington Cockenzie

In this interview, Lord Provost John McMillan (b. 1951) talks about his childhood and working life, much of which has been spent in East Lothian. John's earliest memory was of leaving his grandparent...

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