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Interviews of Marion Sunderland

EERC/DG/DG4/19

Childhood Working life Teaching Community Life Housing Foodways Recreation World War, 1939-1945 Shopping Religion Fishing Whithorn Garlieston

Biographical interview with Marion Sunderland whose family moved to Whithorn when she was a small child. Marion's mother was a teacher and Marion also became a primary school teacher after studying i...

Interviews conducted by Julia Muir Watt

EERC/DG/DG4

Biography Childhood Recreation Farming Foodways Community Life Working life

Julia Muir- Watt conducted a total of 36 recordings made with 28 interviewees, carried out between 2012 and 2013.

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 Tom McCreath

EERC/DG/DG4/3

Childhood Working life Farming Community Life Foodways Recreation World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1939-1945 Religion Challoch Farm Whithorn Galloway House Garlieston Sorbie

Interview (DG4/3/1/1) 1 of 2 with Tom McCreath who was brought up at Broughton Mains farm and was a farmer all his working life. Tom begins by talking about his family connections to the area prior t...

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 Dolly Ferries aged 83

EERC/DG/DG10/12

Childhood Education Farming World War, 1939-1945 Rationing Recreation Working life Domestic personnel Housing Foodways Social Life and Customs Marriage Emigration Newton Stewart Garlieston Baldoon North Balfern Kirkinner Baltersan Dalry, Dumfries and Galloway Loch Doon

Biographical interview (DG10/12/1/1 is track 1 of 2) with Dolly Ferries, aged 83, who was born at North Balfern, Kirkinner where her father was a shepherd. Her earliest memory was aged around 3, when...

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 Wacek Kaczmarczyk aged 58

EERC/DG/DG27/4

Social Systems Italian (Cultural Identity) Polish (Cultural Identity) World War, 1939-1945 Working life Forests and forestry Education Recreation Foodways Religion Dumfries (Scotland) Mouswald

Biographical interview with Wacek Kaczmarczyk (b. 1956) who was born in Dumfries to Polish parents. Wacek's parents had arrived in Scotland through very different routes. His mother spent World War ...

Interviews of Gordon Hastie,

EERC/EL/EL1/1

Childhood Recreation Education Shopping Farming Working life Material Culture Travel Foodways Alderston Mains Haddington Ormiston

This interview, with Gordon Hastie (b. 1952 at Melvin Hall near Ormiston), is conducted by Gordon’s wife, Vivian. In 1958, his family moved to Alderston Mains, where Gordon and his family still liv...

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