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Interviews of Alex Haswell aged 58

EERC/DG/DG4/27

Childhood Education Recreation Working life Community Life Transport Housing Religion Local Government Whithorn Stranraer Elrig New Luce Skeog

Biographical interview with Alex Haswell (b.1954) who was born and grew up in Whithorn. In the early part of this interview Alex talks about his parents, childhood, schooldays and memories of Whithor...

Interviews of Elsie McShane aged 80

EERC/DG/DG4/28

Childhood Education Working life Community Life Travellers Housing Religion World War, 1939-1945 Glasserton Whithorn Isle of Whithorn

Biographical interview with Elsie McShane (aged 80) who was born at the sawmill cottages at Glasserton. Elsie's father became head gardener at Glasserton in the years before World War 2 and the famil...

Interviews of Vivien Delf

EERC/DG/DG26/34

Childhood Farming Living Conditions Travellers Religion

Interview with Vivien Delf, who recalled her childhood visits to rural Wigtownshire in the years after the end of World War 1. Her extended family farmed Auchness, Balgowan and Auchneight and Viven r...

Interviews of Joe Campbell aged 74

EERC/DG/DG30/2

Childhood Working life Visual arts Music Customs and Traditions Religion Kirkcudbright Castle Douglas Stranraer

Biographical interview with Joe Campbell (aged 74). Joe first talks about his parents and grandparents. His father's father had been a successful tailor in Kirkcudbright, with a business that stretc...

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...

Interviews of Christina Vasilesen aged 38

EERC/DG/DG37/1

Childhood Working life Community Life Language Proverbs Religion Emigration and Immigration Dumfries (Scotland) Moniaive

Biographical interview with Christina Vasilesen (b. 1975, Romania) who now lives in Dumfriesshire with her partner, Graham. Christina begins by talking about her childhood and her love of her grandpa...

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...

Interviews of Charles Horne

EERC/EL/EL7/1

Childhood Working life Fishing Health Technology Shopping Recreation Sexuality World War, 1939-1945 Religion Port Seton Prestonpans Rothesay Morrison's Haven Seton Castle Firth of Forth Anstruther Port Dundas Musselburgh Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland Troon Cockenzie Lochranza Aberlady Bay

EL7/1/1/1 is the first in a series of interview tracks recorded with Charles (Charlie) Horne (b. 1926) of Port Seton. Charlie begins by expaining that his family have fishing connections to Port Seto...

Interviews of Douglas Clark and Hazel Clark

EERC/EL/EL8/2

Childhood Working life Farming Social Systems Material Culture World War, 1939-1945 Housing Weaving Recreation Foodways Religion Transport Reston Haddington East Linton Nunraw Whittingehame Estate Garvald

In this interview, husband and wife, Dougie (b. circa 1934) and Hazel Clark, talk about their connections with Garvald and their time farming at Luggate Farm. Hazel begins by sharing some of her memor...

Interviews of Raymond Jaconelli

EERC/EL/EL9/2

Childhood Religion Architecture Farming Community Life Social Systems World War, 1939-1945 Internment Working life Nunraw Garvald

In this interview, Nunraw Abbot, Father Raymond Jaconelli (b. c.1934) talks about his childhood, life and his time at Nunraw. Fr Raymond was born in Airdrie to Italian parents who had a café in Glas...

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