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Interviews of Nurse Cowel

EERC/DG/DG47/3

Industry Housing Living Conditions Fishing Foodways Community Life Recreation Working life Carsluith Creetown

DG47/3/1/1 (track 1 of 12) is with a Carsluithian, identified as Nurse Cowell, and begins with her describing her earliest memories. Her father built the family home, Greywalls in Carsluith, and Ms C...

Interviews of Alex and Mrs MacLean

EERC/DG/DG47/11

Housing Industry Social Life and Customs Scottish Travellers (Nomadic people) Transport shops Quarries and Quarrying Community Life Health Recreation Kirkcudbright Carsluith Kirkmabreck Kirkdale, Dumfries and Galloway

In DG47/11/1/1 (track 1 of 4), Alex MacLean (b.c.1900) and Mrs MacLean talk to David Hannay about Kirkdale, Ravenshall and Creetown. Alex's father worked in the gardens at Kirkdale and his memories d...

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 conducted by Judith McNeill,

EERC/EL/EL32

Childhood World War, 1939-1945 Community Life Working life Engineering Transport Housing Architecture Sports Recreation

Judith McNeill conducted 1 interview made with 1 interviewee, carried out in 2020.

Interviews of George Montgomery,

EERC/EL/EL32/1

Childhood World War, 1939-1945 Community Life Working life Engineering Transport Housing Architecture Recreation

In this interview, George Montgomery (b. 1933) talks about his life in Longniddry, his working life and his lifelong interest in cars and motor engineering. After the early death of his father, George...

Interviews of Mr and Mrs Marr by an unknown female ,

EERC/EL/EL2/25

Childhood Working life Mining Domestic Life Recreation Housing Community Life Prestonpans Prestongrange Cockenzie

In this interview, Mr and Mrs Marr talk about their life in Prestonpans. Mr Marr had spent time in the Navy and the pits and laterly has been working at the Cockenzie power station, as a security ga...

Interviews of Prestonpans Ladies by an unknown female, bulk:

EERC/EL/EL2/29

Community Life Housing Childhood Education Domestic Economy Working life Coal Mines and Mining Recreation Religion Gender Prestonpans Scotland -- Coatbridge

In track 1 of 2 (EL2/29/1/1) a group of women share their memories and recollections of Morrison’s Haven, a development of 2 rows of miners’ cottages (55 in all) which were built by Summerlea to h...

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...

Interviews of Jimmy Thomson by an unknown female, bulk:

EERC/EL/EL2/36

Childhood Education Community Life Housing Play Recreation Sports Sailing Working life Mining Prestonpans Portobello North Berwick

In this interview Jimmy Thomson talks about his childhood and growing up in Morrison's Haven. He remembers the sailing club and recalls how everyone would help to bring the boats out of the water in ...

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