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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 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 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 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 Thomas Taylor by an unknown female, bulk:

EERC/EL/EL2/35

Childhood Working life Sports Horse Racing Community Life Housing Transport Recreation Foodways

In track 1 of 2 (EL2/35/1/1), Thomas Taylor (born around 1910), who has lived in Musselburgh all his life talks about how the town has changed over the decades. He remembers a time when Musselburgh w...

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