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Interviews of Jaqueline Lynch

EERC/EL/EL6/2

Childhood Education Community Life Housing Social Systems Haddington Glasgow Edinburgh Longniddry Prestonpans Possilpark Dunbar Blindwells Letham Mains Wallyford

In this interview, Jacqueline Lynch (born 1961) talks about her childhood, and particularly about the time when, aged 6, her family moved to Haddington after her father got a job designing the electro...

Interviews of Linda Petrie and Trudy Grant

EERC/EL/EL6/3

Childhood Education Community Life Social Systems Recreation Working life Teaching Gender Housing Transport Haddington Edinburgh Wallyford Prestonpans Musselburgh Longniddry North Berwick Leith Ballencrieff

In this interview, mother and daughter Trudy (b.1931) and Linda (b.1954) talk about living in East Lothian in the 1960s. The family had moved to Haddington when Mr Grant came to work as a teacher at ...

Interviews of Shirley Swinton and Janet Whinnett

EERC/EL/EL11/6

Childhood Education Community Life Housing Play Working life Haddington

This interview, with friends Shirley Swinton (60) and Jane Whinnett (59), concentrates on their experiences of childhood from early memories through their primary school years. As both women had Febr...

Interviews of Lorna McDougal

EERC/EL/EL11/7

Childhood Education Working life Housing Community Life Recreation Social Systems Music Clothing and dress Crafts Gladsmuir Macmerry Nungate Haddington

In this interview, Lorna MacDougal, talks about her life in Haddington and particularly her early life, schooldays and youth. Her parents met in Cove and moved to Haddington so that her father could ...

Interviews of Graham Wells

EERC/EL/EL11/8

Childhood Education Working life Housing Community Life Play Social Systems Music Sports Mining Banks and banking Ormiston Haddington Port Seton North Berwick Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland Dunbar Tranent

In this interview, Graham Wells (aged 46) from Ormiston talks about his childhood and working life in East Lothian. Graham recalls that his parents settled in Ormiston when they married. At that time...

Interviews of Iris White

EERC/EL/EL26/2

Childhood Community Life Housing World War, 1939-1945 Working life Publishers and Publishing Health Education shops Birth Haddington Possilpark

In this interview, Iris White (b. 1938, Glasgow) recalls her early life in Possilpark; early working experiences; her decision to move to Haddington as part of the Glasgow overspill and her life in Ha...

Interviews of John McMillan

EERC/EL/EL12/2

Childhood Education Community Life Social Systems Working life Civil Servants Business Housing Politics Macmerry Tranent Haddington Cockenzie

In this interview, Lord Provost John McMillan (b. 1951) talks about his childhood and working life, much of which has been spent in East Lothian. John's earliest memory was of leaving his grandparent...

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