Interviews conducted by Ailsa Fortune
EERC/EL/EL5
Ailsa Fortune conducted a total of 2 recordings with 2 interviewees, carried out in 2018.
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 Mrs Brown by an unknown female,
EERC/EL/EL2/4
Childhood
Working life
Fishing
Transport
Foodways
Community Life
Language
Religion
Musselburgh
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
In interview 1 of 2 (EL2/4/1/1), Mrs Brown talks about her fishing heritage. When she was a child, her mother would be up at 5am to go down to Musselburgh to buy fish for the day. While she was away,...