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Interview of 75 year old born at Palnackie

EERC/DG/DG10/13

Childhood Education Farming Domestic Life shops Social Life and Customs Marriage Entertainment Christmas New Year

Biographical interview with a 75 year old who was born at Palnackie in 1938. Her family had a small dairy farm and she could remember standing in the milking shed in clogs aged around 4. She also r...

Interviews conducted by Kirsty Robertson

EERC/DG/DG10

Biography Childhood Domestic Life Foodways

Kirsty Roberston conducted a total of 16 recordings made with 16 interviewees. The interviews were carried out between 2012 and 2013.

Interviews of Jean Anderson aged 82

EERC/DG/DG13/11

Childhood Education Domestic Life Farming World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1939-1945 Working life Nursing | Practice Kippford

Biographical interview (DG13/11/1/1 part 1 of 2) with Jean Anderson (b.1932) who was born and brought up in Kipford and now lives in Kirkcudbright. This interview looks in detail at Jean's home life ...

Interviews of Betty Hudson aged 68

EERC/DG/DG14/5

Childhood Education Farming Domestic Life shops Creetown Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries (Scotland)

Biographical interview with Betty Hudson (DG27) who was born in 1945. Betty's father was a sheep farmer at Glenquicken farm, which is a few miles north of Creetown and she explained that she had been...

Interviews of Richard Kinghorn aged 69 and Alex Inman aged 68

EERC/DG/DG17/3

Education Childhood Community Life Housing Transport Play Domestic Life Working life Dumfries (Scotland) Troqueer

Biographical interview with friends, Alex Inman (b.1946) and Richard Kinghorn (b.1945). This interview is largely about childhood, especially home-life and schooldays in Dumfries. The men share memo...

Interviews of Bob MacDonald aged 92

EERC/DG/DG17/4

Childhood Community Life Domestic Life Customs and Traditions Artillery Army Personnel Dumfries (Scotland) Lochar Moss

Interview with Bob MacDonald (aged 92) who was interviewed with his daughter, Heather McNay. Bob had lived in the Robert Burns Museum in Dumfries when he was a child and he begins by speaking about t...

Interviews of Brenda McIntosh aged 71

EERC/DG/DG17/5

Education Childhood Recreation Working life Community Life World War, 1914-1918 Domestic Life Gender Religion Health Dumfries (Scotland)

Track 1 of 2 (DG17/5/1/1, 14 February 2014) of a biographical interview with Brenda McIntosh (b.1932, Dumfries). Brenda's parents had moved to an ex-servicemen’s small-holding community after meeti...

Interviews of John Dickenson aged 79

EERC/DG/DG17/6

Childhood Nature Working life Domestic Life Literature Storytelling History Archaeology Landscape Dumfries (Scotland) Kendoon Carsphairn Loch Einich

Biographical interview with John Dickenson (b. 1936, Kirkcudbright). John talks about his early life and family and his life-long interest in history and landscape. John's father worked for the Gall...

Interviews of Barbara Hannay

EERC/DG/DG26/5

Childhood Education Farming Domestic Life World War, 1939-1945 Evacuees Weather

Barbara Hannay, born 1920, talks about her childhood at Colfin Farm, her schooling, home life and activities during the war. Home life was very busy, especially around harvest time when there was a g...

Interviews of George McClymont aged 74

EERC/DG/DG26/15

Childhood Domestic Life Education Working life Fishing Transport shops Community Life World War, 1939-1945 Religion Tourism

Biographical interview with George McClymont (b. 1931) about his early days in Portpatrick. George talks about the family home and domestic arrangements, recalling that the family of nine had running...

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