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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 Judy Brown aged 73

EERC/DG/DG4/13

Childhood Education Working life Farming Domestic Life Housing World War, 1939-1945 Recreation Weather Whithorn Glasgow

Biographical interview with Judy Brown (b. 1939) who could trace her family history in the area to the 1850s when her grandfather had Zorach and Outreach farms. Judy talks about farming, the Irish po...

Interviews of Kennedy Doonan

EERC/DG/DG4/16

Childhood Working life Farming Community Life Housing Domestic Life Port William Barrachan

In track 1 (of 2) of this biographical interview, Kenny Doonan (b.c1930s) describes his childhood on Barrachen Estate, where his mother had Home Farm and kept a small dairy herd. Kenny went on to wor...

Interviews of Graham Kerr aged 75

EERC/DG/DG10/7

Childhood Domestic Life Foodways Working life Agriculture Dairy Farming shops Housing Whithorn

Short biographical interview with Dixie Kerr who describes his early life with at his granny's house at Longhill. He recalls that times were very hard and there were no treats. He would often catch ...

Interviews of Jim Wright aged 74

EERC/DG/DG10/8

Childhood Domestic Life Foodways Working life shops Material Culture Housing Peat Lagafater Estate

Biographical interview with Jim Wright (aged 74) who was born and brought up on the Lagafater estate where his father was the gamekeeper and his grandfather served as a shepherd. The interview covers...

Interviews of Bill Wilson

EERC/EL/EL11/12

Childhood Education Social Systems Community Life Industry Housing Domestic Life Fishing Play Travel and Holidays Recreation Musselburgh Ormiston Cockenzie Port Seton Edinburgh Levenhall, East Lothian

In this interview, Bill Wilson (b. 1953) talks about his childhood and working life, and about his love of local history. Bill was born in Edenhall hospital in Musselburgh, the middle of three sons. ...

Interviews of Jim Hawkins aged 79

EERC/DG/DG44/1

Education Engineering Housing Domestic Life National Service World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1939-1945 Politics Law Carlisle Gretna Green Annan Lockerbie Watch Hill, Dumfries and Galloway

Biographical interview (DG44/1/1/1, 21 August 2015) with Jim Hawkins (agd 79) who was born in Annan and has lived there most of his life. He begins by talking about his schooldays and the impact the...

Interviews of Ronnie Waugh aged 76

EERC/DG/DG38/15

Working life Health Community Life Nursing | Practice Social Systems Recreation Education Travellers Domestic Life Housing World War, 1939-1945 Dunscore Dumfries (Scotland)

Biographical interview (DG38/15/1/1, interview 1 of 2, 16 February 2015) with Ronnie Waugh (b. 1938). Ronnie moved to Dunscore when he was 2. After leaving school he started to train as an apprenti...

Interviews of Mary Jamieson by Lorna Lewis

EERC/EL/EL2/20

Domestic Life Housing Foodways Gender World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1939-1945 Education Social Life and Customs shops Working life Edinburgh Musselburgh Inveresk (East Lothian, Scotland)

In the first interview of 5 (EL2/20/1/1) Mary Jamieson (born c.1905, Musselburgh) begins by speaking about her early family life in Hercus Loan, Musselburgh. As well as recalling the interior of the ...

Interviews of Mr and Mrs Marr by an unknown female ,

EERC/EL/EL2/25

Childhood Working life Mining Domestic Life Recreation Housing Community Life Prestonpans Prestongrange Cockenzie

In this interview, Mr and Mrs Marr talk about their life in Prestonpans. Mr Marr had spent time in the Navy and the pits and laterly has been working at the Cockenzie power station, as a security ga...

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