EERC/DG/DG17/3
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...
EERC/DG/DG5/1
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...
EERC/DG/DG8/1
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 ...
EERC/DG/DG27/1
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 ...
EERC/DG/DG31/4
Interview with Susan Palmer-Jones who was born in Edinburgh and has lived in Moniave for the past 20 years. Susan has family links to the Dumfries area going back to the 1500s and this interview is p...
EERC/DG/DG33/4
Biographical interview with Dan McKie (b. 1941) who was born in Hampshire and moved to Scotland when he was five, to stay with his granny after his father was demobbed from the RAF. He has lived in D...
EERC/DG/DG35/1
Biographical interview with Ruth McGrath (b. 1922) who was born at 30 Castle Street in Dumfries. Her son, Colin, is also present and participates in the interview at various points. Ruth is the daug...
EERC/DG/DG35/2
Biographical interview with Peter Stewart (b.1932) who was born and brought up in Dumfries. His family lived at 16 Castle Street, in a 4-storey terraced house, which Peter recalls, had only 1 bathroo...
EERC/DG/DG46/9
Biographical interview with Paul Roxburgh (b. 1934, Lochmaben). Paul recalls his childhood in Lochmaben where his family had a grocer's shop which had been opened by his grandfather, in the front roo...
EERC/DG/DG38/37
Biographical interview with Kathy Stuart (b. 1938, Cresswell) about working at MacGeorge's knitwear factory in Dumfries. Kathy explains that she worked in an office of 15 and her job was in looking a...