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Interviews of Sheila Austin aged 69

EERC/DG/DG27/9

Childhood Working life Farming Social Systems Community Life Education Shopping Foodways Entertainment Dumfries (Scotland) Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway Nether Glaisters

Biographical interview with Sheila Austin (aged 70) who recalls life on a sheep farm. Her father's family had been at Nether Glaisters for 5 generations and this was her first home. The family then ...

Interviews of Ronald Jardine aged 76

EERC/DG/DG33/2

Childhood World War, 1939-1945 Working life Dairy Farming Community Life Education Recreation Landscape Material Culture Dumfries (Scotland)

Biographical interview with Ronald Jardine (b. 1938) who was born in Dumfries, at Moat Brae, and has lived for over 50 years at Cairn of Craigs. The early part of this interview covers Ronald's earli...

Interviews of Dan McKie aged 72

EERC/DG/DG33/4

Childhood Education Working life Transport Travel and Holidays Housing Community Life Health Glasgow Dumfries (Scotland) Gatehouse of Fleet

Biographical interview with Dan McKie (b. 1941) who was born in Hampshire and moved to Scotland when he was five, to stay with his granny after his father was demobbed from the RAF. He has lived in D...

Interviews of Pam Walker aged 59

EERC/DG/DG33/3

Childhood Education Working life Housing Community Life Health Recreation Dumfries (Scotland) Collin, Dumfries and Galloway Lochside, Dumfries

Short biographical interview with Pam Walker (b. 1955) who has spent most of her life in Dumfries (especially Lochside) and who now lives in Collin. Pam talks about her schooldays, recalling that she...

Interviews of Barbara Kelly,

EERC/DG/DG34/3

Childhood Education Transport Working life Community Life Social structure

Biographical interview with Dame Barbara Kelly (aged 70+) who was born in Dalbeattie and has always lived in Dumfries and Galloway. Barbara's parents were teachers and the early part of this intervie...

Interviews of John Bryden

EERC/DG/DG36/2

Childhood Joinery Labour Migration Recreation Community Life World War, 1939-1945 Education Gardening

Interview with John Bryden who has always lived in the village of Shawhead, near Dumfries. John's father was a joiner and had his own business at Rosebank, on a site previously occupied by Fred David...

Interviews of Paul Roxburgh

EERC/DG/DG46/9

Childhood Education Working life shops Transport Recreation World War, 1939-1945 Religion Community Life National Service Archaeology Nature Language Lochmaben Dumfries (Scotland) Halleaths, Dumfries and Galloway Dalton, Dumfries and Galloway Wamphray Castle Loch Beacon Hill, Dumfries and Galloway Parkgate, Dumfries and Galloway

Biographical interview with Paul Roxburgh (b. 1934, Lochmaben). Paul recalls his childhood in Lochmaben where his family had a grocer's shop which had been opened by his grandfather, in the front roo...

Interview of Hamish Gibson

EERC/EL/EL3/1

Childhood Education Sports Shopping Farming Working life World War, 1939-1945 Community Life Nature Weather Haddington Garvald Papana Water

In this interview, Hamish Gibson (b. 1936) talks about his childhood and life around Garvald and Carfrae Farm. Hamish recalls especially times during World War 2, when he was a schoolboy. He remembe...

Interviews of Jaqueline Lynch

EERC/EL/EL6/2

Childhood Education Community Life Housing Social Systems Haddington Glasgow Edinburgh Longniddry Prestonpans Possilpark Dunbar Blindwells Letham Mains Wallyford

In this interview, Jacqueline Lynch (born 1961) talks about her childhood, and particularly about the time when, aged 6, her family moved to Haddington after her father got a job designing the electro...

Interviews of Linda Petrie and Trudy Grant

EERC/EL/EL6/3

Childhood Education Community Life Social Systems Recreation Working life Teaching Gender Housing Transport Haddington Edinburgh Wallyford Prestonpans Musselburgh Longniddry North Berwick Leith Ballencrieff

In this interview, mother and daughter Trudy (b.1931) and Linda (b.1954) talk about living in East Lothian in the 1960s. The family had moved to Haddington when Mr Grant came to work as a teacher at ...

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