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Interviews of Heather Millar aged 64

EERC/DG/DG13/3

Childhood Community Life Housing Working life Shopping Social Systems Entertainment Transport Kirkcudbright

Biographical interview with Heather Miller (b. 1947) who was born and brought up in Kirkcudbright. Much of the interview is about Heather's grandparents' home which was a fisherman's cottage down nea...

Interviews of Felicity Gelder aged 65

EERC/DG/DG13/4

Childhood Community Life Housing Social Systems shops Entertainment

Biographical interview with Felicity Gelder (aged 65) who has spent much of her life in Kirkcudbright. Felicity grew up in 83 and 81 High Street, properties that were owned by her grandmother. She d...

Interviews of Nancy Muirhead aged 75

EERC/DG/DG13/7

Childhood Working life Knitting Social Systems Entertainment Community Life Housing Kirkcudbright Castle Douglas Dumfries (Scotland)

Biographical interview with Nancy Muirhead (aged 75) who was born in Mull and came to Kirkcudbright, where she still lives, when she was around 12 years old. Nancy talks a little about settling into ...

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 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 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 Bill Wilson

EERC/EL/EL11/12

Childhood Education Social Systems Community Life Industry Housing Domestic Life Fishing Play Travel and Holidays Recreation Musselburgh Ormiston Cockenzie Port Seton Edinburgh Levenhall, East Lothian

In this interview, Bill Wilson (b. 1953) talks about his childhood and working life, and about his love of local history. Bill was born in Edenhall hospital in Musselburgh, the middle of three sons. ...

Interviews of John Stephen Hannah

EERC/EL/EL15/2

Childhood Housing Community Life Social Systems Working life Sports Recreation Police Religion Dunbar Glasgow Lossiemouth

In this interview, John Hannah (b.1957) shares stories from his childhood and youth. John was born in Glasgow and moved to Dunbar as part of the Glasgow overspill around 1963. He recalls details fro...

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