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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 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 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 Susan Palmer-Jones aged 70

EERC/DG/DG31/4

Working life National Health Service (Great Britain) Medicine Domestic Life Transport Health Architecture Dumfries (Scotland) Auldgirth

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...

Interviews of Dan McKie aged 72

EERC/DG/DG33/4

Childhood Education Working life Transport Travel and Holidays Housing Community Life Health Glasgow Dumfries (Scotland) Gatehouse of Fleet

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...

Interviews of Ruth McGrath aged 95 and Colin McGrath

EERC/DG/DG35/1

Childhood Working life Health Transport Housing Community Life World War, 1939-1945 Roucan Loch Dumfries (Scotland)

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...

Interviews of Peter Stewart aged 81

EERC/DG/DG35/2

Childhood Working life Transport Housing Health Dumfries (Scotland)

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...

Interviews of Paul Roxburgh

EERC/DG/DG46/9

Childhood Education Working life shops Transport Recreation World War, 1939-1945 Religion Community Life National Service Archaeology Nature Language Lochmaben Dumfries (Scotland) Halleaths, Dumfries and Galloway Dalton, Dumfries and Galloway Wamphray Castle Loch Beacon Hill, Dumfries and Galloway Parkgate, Dumfries and Galloway

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...

Interviews of Kathleen Stuart aged 68

EERC/DG/DG38/37

Working life Wool industry Transport Dumfries (Scotland) Moffat

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...

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