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Interviews of Dora Nichol

EERC/DG/DG47/30

Childhood Working life Community Life Weather World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1939-1945 Housing Fishing Industry Carsluith

In this interview (DG47/30/1/1, track 1 of 2) Dora Nicholl talks about her life, particularly after she moved to Carsluith when she married in 1954. Dora was born in Peebles and moved to Stirlingshir...

Interviews of Nurse Cowel

EERC/DG/DG47/3

Industry Housing Living Conditions Fishing Foodways Community Life Recreation Working life Carsluith Creetown

DG47/3/1/1 (track 1 of 12) is with a Carsluithian, identified as Nurse Cowell, and begins with her describing her earliest memories. Her father built the family home, Greywalls in Carsluith, and Ms C...

Interviews of Mrs King

EERC/DG/DG47/4

Community Life Social Systems Housing Industry Transport Education Creetown Cairnharrow

In this interview, David Hannay speaks to Mrs King whose great grandfather, Mr Sutcliffe, established Kirkmabreck quarry. He was manager there for a year or two and then his son, who had been living ...

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 Mrs Fisher

EERC/DG/DG47/10

Housing Industry Community Life Social Life and Customs Weather Creetown Carsluith

In this interview, Mrs Fisher (b.c.1911) talks to David Hannay about her life in Carsluith. Mrs Fisher's father moved to Carsluith as a teacher in 1919 and remained there until 1930. By that time, ...

Interviews of Alex and Mrs MacLean

EERC/DG/DG47/11

Housing Industry Social Life and Customs Scottish Travellers (Nomadic people) Transport shops Quarries and Quarrying Community Life Health Recreation Kirkcudbright Carsluith Kirkmabreck Kirkdale, Dumfries and Galloway

In DG47/11/1/1 (track 1 of 4), Alex MacLean (b.c.1900) and Mrs MacLean talk to David Hannay about Kirkdale, Ravenshall and Creetown. Alex's father worked in the gardens at Kirkdale and his memories d...

Interviews of Mrs Rae

EERC/DG/DG47/19

Childhood Industry Quarries and Quarrying Community Life Working life Teaching Housing World War, 1939-1945 Carsluith Twynholm Creetown Kirkdale, Dumfries and Galloway

In this interview DG47/19/1/1 (track 1 of 2) Mrs Rae (99 years old)speaks to David Hannay her life in and around Carsluith. Mrs Rae was born in a house on the shore in Carsluith, next door to one bui...

Interviews of Julia Bain, Jess and Kenneth Ball

EERC/DG/DG47/22

Social Systems Industry Landscape Building Community Life Housing Carsluith

In this interview, with Julia Bain, her brother Derek and sister-in-law Jess, the contributors chat with David Hannay about life in Carsluith. Julia and Derek recall childhood visits to the area and ...

Interviews of Bert Rae

EERC/DG/DG47/28

Childhood Education Farming Industry Community Life World War, 1939-1945 Rationing Supernatural Dundrennan Kirkdale, Dumfries and Galloway Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway Kirkmabreck Cairnryan Carsluith

In this interview Bert Rae (b. circa 1935) talks about his early life around Carsluith. He talks particularly about farm life as his parents farmed at Dundrennan and on part of the Kirkdale estate. ...

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