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Interviews of Lorezno Rinaldi aged 68

EERC/DG/DG14/9

Community Life Social Systems World War, 1939-1945 Childhood Teaching Working life Glasgow Dumfries (Scotland)

Biographical interview with Lorenzo Ronaldo (b.1944) who was born in Glasgow and lived in Dumfries from the age of 8. Lorenzo talks about his Italian-Scots upbringing and about feelings of home and e...

Interviews of James Behan aged 77

EERC/DG/DG14/11

Childhood Education Working life Nursing | Practice Community Life National Service Territorial Army Dumfries (Scotland)

Biographical interview with James Behan (aged 77) who was born in Dumfries and has spent most of his life living in the town. James talks about his early childhood and schooling. He was happy at St ...

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 Irene Morrison aged 75

EERC/DG/DG20/4

Childhood Community Life Social Systems Working life Nursing | Practice Health Tuberculosis Wanlockhead Sanquhar Dumfries (Scotland)

Biographical interview with Irene Morrison (b. 1937) who was born in Wanlockhead, in the Fraser Memorial Institute. The interview begins with Irene describing the institute which was built by the Fra...

Interviews of Alex Inman and Richard Kinghorn

EERC/DG/DG11/4

Childhood Community Life shops Business Education Recreation Working life Architecture Dumfries (Scotland)

Audio and video files recorded simultaneously during a discussion and walk about around Dumfries. The interview with Alex Inman and Richard Kinghorn focuses on recollections of childhood and early wo...

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 Spencer Kennedy aged 68

EERC/DG/DG27/1

Childhood Community Life shops Transport Travel and Holidays Education Farming Working life Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries (Scotland)

Track 1 of 2 (DG27/6/1/3) of a biographical interview recorded on 18 December 2013 with Spencer Kennedy (b. 1945) about his early life in Thornhill. Spencer's father was the local vet and his mother ...

Interviews of May MacCormack aged 65

EERC/DG/DG27/7

Childhood Community Life Common Ridings (Festivals) Handicrafts Knitting Sanquhar Dumfries (Scotland)

Biographical interview with May MacMacCormick (aged 65), who was brought up at Burnsands, a small group of houses on the Buccleuch estate where her father worked and in the house where he had lived hi...

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