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Interviews of Jock McMaster

EERC/DG/DG4/11

Childhood Working life Farming Foodways Transport Community Life Tourism Recreation World War, 1939-1945

Biographical interview with Jock McMaster, a farmer in his late 70s, who has always lived in the Monreith area. His family came to Blairbury farm around 1830, initially as tenant farmers. During thi...

Interviews of Tom Allan

EERC/DG/DG46/5

Education Working life Community Life Customs Foodways National Service Transport shops Clothing trade Lochmaben Lockerbie

Biographical interview with Tom Allan, who moved from Borland to Lochmaben when he was 9 years old when his father took up the post of head gardener at the Lochmaben sanatorium. Tom talks about his s...

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 Sheila Young

EERC/EL/EL13/1

Childhood Working life Education Play Transport Shopping Foodways Community Life Literature East Linton Dunbar Edinburgh Belhaven Garvald West Barns

In interview 1 of 2 (EL13/1/1/1), Sheila Young recalls her childhood and early schooldays in East Linton. As an only child, she recalls how strange it was to start school and be around other children...

Interviews of Gordon Gordon

EERC/DG/DG47/26

Working life Farming Community Life Foodways Recreation Transport Creetown Cardoness

In this interview, Gordon Gordon talks about his time at Kirkdale in the 1960s where he worked alongside Brian Reid who was experimenting with organic farming. Mr Reid, who was a railway designer and...

Interviews of Jean and John Scott

EERC/DG/DG47/27

Working life Farming Community Life Foodways Recreation Transport Carsluith Creetown

This interview with Jean and John Scott was held as the Scott's prepared to leave Kirkdale Bank where they had been living for 13 years, to move to Dumfries. John had been caretaker at Kirkdale for 1...

Interviews of Peter Alan,

EERC/EL/EL39/1

Working life Community Life Transport Railways Foodways Labour Unions

In this interview, Peter Allan (b. Whitley Bay, c.1965) talks about his working life in the railways. Peter was the fourth generation of his family to work with trains and he started his career in Gl...

Interviews conducted by Alice Heywood

EERC/EL/EL29

Childhood Play Education Foodways Working life Fishing Housing Community Life Shopping Transport

Alice Heywood conducted 2 interviews made with 2 interviewees, both carried out in 2020.

Interviews of Betty Neil and Suzanne Ewing née Watson,

EERC/EL/EL29/2

Childhood Play Domestic Economy Foodways Working life Fishing Housing Community Life Shopping Transport Fisherrow Musselburgh Edinburgh

In this interview, sisters Betty and Suzanne, talk about growing up in Fisherrow. Their father was a fisherman and their home, at Bush Street, was one of a complex they believe was built by their gre...

Interviews of Margaret Oliver

EERC/EL/EL6/6

Working life Industry Community Life Transport Housing Foodways Clothing and dress Gender

In this interview, Margaret Oliver (b. 1957), who has lived in Musselburgh all her life, talks about her childhood there and her family connections to Brunton's wire mill. Margaret's mother, father, u...

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