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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 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 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 Brown aged 84

EERC/DG/DG5/1

Education Working life Agriculture--Economic aspects Recreation Cinemas Dancing Transport Further Education Institutions Dumfries (Scotland) Kirkton, Dumfries and Galloway Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway

Interview with Irene Brown which begins with her memories of school in Thornhill and later Debier's secretarial school on Irish Street in Dumfries (students were mostly girls but some boys too). Iren...

Interviews of Isobel Sutherland aged 57

EERC/DG/DG8/1

Education Working life Agriculture Recreation Childrens games Dancing Business Landscape Nature Transport Needlework Religion Foodways Kirkcudbright Newton Stewart Castle Douglas Dumfries (Scotland) Ringford, Dumfries and Galloway Twynholm Tarff Martyrs Monument, Dumfries and Galloway Tongland

Interview 1 of 3 (DG8/1/1/1) with Isobel Sutherland which focuses on her life in Ringford, where she lived from aged 5 until she married aged 20. Isobel gives details about her early school life and ...

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 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 Shona McKinnon aged 68

EERC/DG/DG27/2

Childhood Education Working life Social Systems Dumfries (Scotland) Maxwelltown, Dumfries

Biographical interview with Shona McKinnon (b. 1945) who moved to Maxwelltown in 1947 when her father became minister at Troqueer Church of Scotland. This interview concentrates on Shona's childhood,...

Interviews of Norman McKinnon aged 69

EERC/DG/DG27/3

Childhood Education Working life Farming Dumfries (Scotland) Lockerbie

Biographical interview with Norman McKinnon (aged 69) from Dumfries. Norman spent his childhood staying at various farms including Chapelcroft, Morton Mill, Longmire, Culraven and Borgue and he desc...

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