Interviews of Miss Hope
EERC/DG/DG47/5
In this interview, David talks to Miss Hope who worked at Cardoness house from 1947 to 1952. Together they recall those times at Cardoness and some of the people who were there at the same time. Davi...
Interviews of Lizzie Davidson
EERC/DG/DG47/7
Childhood
Working life
Industry
Quarries and Quarrying
Telecommunication systems
Housing
Community Life
Death
Health
Education
Farming
Music
Fishing
Travellers
Folklore
Glasgow
Carsluith
Creetown
Garlieston
Isle of Man
Cardoness
Recorded over several months, this series of interviews with Elizabeth Davidson (DG47/7/1/1 the first of 14 tracks) takes place in Glasgow, where Elizabeth (b. 1896, now aged 83) had lived since she m...
Interviews of Willie Lupton
EERC/DG/DG47/8
World War, 1914-1918
Social Systems
Industry
Working life
Quarries and Quarrying
Fishing
Armed Forces
Housing
Material Culture
Carsluith
Creetown
Cardoness
Kippford
In this track (DG47/8/1/1, the first of 4) 82 year old Willie Lupton tells David Hannay about his life in Carsluith. Willie's father was a fisherman and Wilie recalls a time when fishing could provid...
Interviews of Gordon Gordon
EERC/DG/DG47/26
In this interview, Gordon Gordon talks about his time at Kirkdale in the 1960s where he worked alongside Brian Reid who was experimenting with organic farming. Mr Reid, who was a railway designer and...