Interviews of Jez Noad aged 54
EERC/DG/DG2/10
Interview with Jez Noad who moved to Creetown in 2005 after spending most of his life in the south of England. He decided to retire early following a college course experience which confirmed for him...
Interviews of David Leckie
EERC/EL/EL11/4
Childhood
Music
Working life
Engineering
Farming
Education
Community Life
Material Culture
Disabilities
Haddington
Alderston Mains
Kingston, East Lothian
Falkirk
Saltoun, East Lothian
Balgone Estate
Pencaitland
Nungate
In this interview (EL11/4/1/1 the first of two sessions) David Leckie talks about his life in East Lothian. As a child, he lived at Balgone farm where his father was a ploughman. An extended family ...
Interviews of John Hamilton
EERC/EL/EL11/10
Childhood
Education
Working life
Engineering
Computers
shops
Photography
Community Life
World War, 1914-1918
Health
Haddington
Dalkeith
Edinburgh
Silverknowes
In this interview, John Hamilton (born 1964) talks about his childhood, working life and his life in Haddington. Recalling his early life, John remembers going to Ireland in the holidays (where his m...
Interviews of Jim Logan
EERC/EL/EL11/11
Childhood
Working life
Engineering
Computers
Photography
shops
Community Life
World War, 1914-1918
Health
Haddington
Edinburgh
In this interview, Jim Logan (b. 1917) talks about his childhood, WW2 service and working life in East Lothian. Jim was the eldest of 8 children and was born at Prova Farm, near Drem. His family mov...
Interviews of David Dixon,
EERC/EL/EL6/24
In this interview, David Dixon recalls his life at Brunton's wire mill. David's father was Work's Director at the mill when David joined the workforce in 1971, after graduating with a degree in mecha...
Interviews conducted by Judith McNeill,
EERC/EL/EL32
Childhood
World War, 1939-1945
Community Life
Working life
Engineering
Transport
Housing
Architecture
Sports
Recreation
Judith McNeill conducted 1 interview made with 1 interviewee, carried out in 2020.
Interviews of George Montgomery,
EERC/EL/EL32/1
Childhood
World War, 1939-1945
Community Life
Working life
Engineering
Transport
Housing
Architecture
Recreation
In this interview, George Montgomery (b. 1933) talks about his life in Longniddry, his working life and his lifelong interest in cars and motor engineering. After the early death of his father, George...
Interviews of John Bennie,
EERC/ES/ES7/4
Working life
Industry
Engineering
Weaving
Community Life
South Lochs (Pairc), Isle of Lewis (Eilean Leòdhais), Scotland
In this short interview John Bennie (b. Bridgewater, Somerset) talks about his working life and weaving. John's father was an engineer and John had an early interest in engineering and how things wor...