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Interviews of Winifred Smith aged 103

EERC/DG/DG13/9

Childhood Education World War, 1914-1918 Working life Teaching Foodways Childrens games Social Systems Edinburgh Restalrig Portobello

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Interviews of Sandra Tweedie aged 74

EERC/DG/DG2/9

Childhood Social Systems Community Life Recreation Education Living Conditions Sanitation Lighting Foodways Working life Quarries and Quarrying Carsluith Creetown

Interview with Sandra Tweedie about her life in Carsluith. Lots of detail is given about the home interior and renovations over time, such as the move from dry toilet to indoor facilities. Sandra's ...

Interviews of Dorothy Sneddon aged 68

EERC/DG/DG10/15

Childhood Education Working life Nursing | Practice Recreation Social Systems Superstitions Foodways Newton Stewart Minnigaff Bargrennan

Biographical interview with Dorothy Sneddon, aged 68, who was born in Newton Stewart where she stayed until the day before her 16th birthday, when she went to Irvine to begin her nurse training. Doro...

Interviews of Sheila Austin aged 69

EERC/DG/DG27/9

Childhood Working life Farming Social Systems Community Life Education Shopping Foodways Entertainment Dumfries (Scotland) Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway Nether Glaisters

Biographical interview with Sheila Austin (aged 70) who recalls life on a sheep farm. Her father's family had been at Nether Glaisters for 5 generations and this was her first home. The family then ...

Interviews of Archie Johnstone

EERC/EL/EL6/1

Childhood Working life Fishing Foodways World War, 1939-1945 Languages Technology Social Systems Port Seton Aberlady Bay Longniddry Cockenzie Newhaven Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland St Abbs Lighthouse

In track 1 of 2 EL6/1/1/1, Archie Johnstone (born 1937), talks about his life as part of a family of fishermen in Cockenzie and Port Seton. Archie explained that his family roots could be traced back...

Interviews of Douglas Clark and Hazel Clark

EERC/EL/EL8/2

Childhood Working life Farming Social Systems Material Culture World War, 1939-1945 Housing Weaving Recreation Foodways Religion Transport Reston Haddington East Linton Nunraw Whittingehame Estate Garvald

In this interview, husband and wife, Dougie (b. circa 1934) and Hazel Clark, talk about their connections with Garvald and their time farming at Luggate Farm. Hazel begins by sharing some of her memor...

Interviews of Oran Dalrymple

EERC/EL/EL12/5

Childhood Education Foodways Play Community Life Social Systems Transport Humbie

Humbie school pupil, Oran Dalrymple, talks about his life in Humbie where he lives with his family in a house on the boundary between East Lothian and Midlothian. This means that he is eligible to ge...

Interviews of Isobel Pensom

EERC/EL/EL13/2

Education Community Life Language Festivals Childhood Architecture Gender Social Systems Foodways Cockenzie Tranent Port Seton

In interview 1 of 2 (EL13/2/1/1) Isobel Pensom (aged 68) talks about her childhood in East Lothian and particularly the family home, known as the Barracks, where she lived as a child and later as an a...

Interviews of Norma Thomson and Wilma Marwick

EERC/EL/EL28

Garvald Nunraw Leith Childhood Recreation Housing shops Social Systems Clothing and dress Community Life Dancing Foodways Law

In this interview, Norma Thomson (aged 78) and her cousin, Wilma (aged 75), talk about their memories of visiting their grandfather in Garvald and their lifelong connections with and love for the vill...

Interviews of Eddie Ritchie ,

EERC/EL/EL35/12

Childhood Community Life Social Systems Working life Fishing Housing Health Foodways

In this interview, Eddie Ritche (b. 1943, Fisherrow) talks about his childhood in Fisherrow and his working life. Eddie's dad had been a fisherman and in the navy during World War 2, before leaving t...

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