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Interviews of Jim Gordon aged 87

EERC/DG/DG13/8

Education Social Systems Entertainment World War, 1939-1945 Farming Community Life Choral Music Visual arts shops Social Life and Customs Kirkcudbright Twynholm Creetown Tongland Boreland of Girthon

Biographical interview with Jim Gordon (87) who was born in Lanark and moved to Kircudbrightshire when his father, a chemist specialising in agricultural supplies, bought Mullock and Corrahill farms. ...

Interviews of Evelyn McGibbon aged 78

EERC/DG/DG13/10

Childhood Education Working life Social Systems Community Life Customs and Traditions Hogmanay World War, 1939-1945 Entertainment Glasgow Kirkcudbright Dundee -- Scotland Crocketford

Biographical interview with Evelyn McGibbon (b.1936) who was born in Dundee and fostered to Crocketford when she was two and a half years old and has maintained links with the area throughout her life...

Interviews of Joseph Sassoon aged 85,

EERC/DG/DG13/1

Childhood Community Life Social Systems Education Shopping Entertainment Visual arts

Biographical interview with Joseph Sassoon (b. 1927) who had lived most of his life in Kirkcudbright. Joseph's father, an artist, had moved to the town on the recommendation of another artist, the et...

Interviews of Moira Jones aged 79

EERC/DG/DG13/2

Childhood Education Community Life Working life Social Systems shops Transport Kirkcudbright

Biographical interview with Moira Jones (aged 79) who was born and brought up in Kirkcudbright where her father was the school janitor. Moira's childhood home was across from the tolbooth and, encour...

Interviews of Heather Millar aged 64

EERC/DG/DG13/3

Childhood Community Life Housing Working life Shopping Social Systems Entertainment Transport Kirkcudbright

Biographical interview with Heather Miller (b. 1947) who was born and brought up in Kirkcudbright. Much of the interview is about Heather's grandparents' home which was a fisherman's cottage down nea...

Interviews of Felicity Gelder aged 65

EERC/DG/DG13/4

Childhood Community Life Housing Social Systems shops Entertainment

Biographical interview with Felicity Gelder (aged 65) who has spent much of her life in Kirkcudbright. Felicity grew up in 83 and 81 High Street, properties that were owned by her grandmother. She d...

Interviews of Nancy Muirhead aged 75

EERC/DG/DG13/7

Childhood Working life Knitting Social Systems Entertainment Community Life Housing Kirkcudbright Castle Douglas Dumfries (Scotland)

Biographical interview with Nancy Muirhead (aged 75) who was born in Mull and came to Kirkcudbright, where she still lives, when she was around 12 years old. Nancy talks a little about settling into ...

Interviews of Joseph Sasoon

EERC/DG/DG56/1

Art Community Life Social Systems Recreation Education Kirkcudbright

This interview forms part of the Kirkcudbright Artists Remembered project. This project was active during the refurbishment of the Kirkcudbright Town hall into the Kirkcudbright Galleries centre and ...

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