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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 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 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...

Interviews of Catherine Knight by Lorna Lewis,

EERC/EL/EL2/23

Community Life shops Social Systems Poetry Nature Foodways Musselburgh Fisherrow Scotland -- Fife -- Dunfermline

Catherine Knight, who was born in Musselburgh in 1897, was interviewed by Lorna Lewis of the Musselburgh History Group in 1985. The focus of the inteview is the life and work of Catherine's father, R...

Interviews of Primrose Barr

EERC/EL/EL12/3

Community Life Working life Social Systems shops Business Health Foodways Religion Housing Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland

In this interview, Primrose Barr (aged 82), who was born in Arbroath, talks about her life in East Lothian. Primrose's husband was born in North Berwick and trained as a doctor. He joined a practice...

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