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Interviews of John Armstrong aged 72

EERC/DG/DG3/3
Interview with John Armstrong while he was out cutting peats on his peat hag at Middlemoss. John, who has been a herd at Terrona, Middlemoss for 46 years, describes his working life in detail. The pe...

Interviews of Jamie Telford

EERC/DG/DG3/1
Interview with Jamie Telford about his life in music. Jamie was born in Langholm and as a youngster learned both the pipes and the flute and played with two of the three town bands, the other being t...

Interviews of Willie and Isa Friell aged 92

EERC/DG/DG3/2
DG3/2/1/1 Interview 1 of 2 with Willie and Isa Friel, the aunt and uncle of the interviewer. Both were born in 1919 and Isa is from the 'auld toon' and Willie the 'new toun'. The interviewer propose...

Interviews of William (Billy) Young aged 54

EERC/DG/DG3/4
In this interview with Billy Young, aged 54, he describes his long association with the Langholm Common Riding. Billy, who runs the paper shop on the High Street, begins by talking about the miniatur...

Interviews of Grace Brown aged 75

EERC/DG/DG17/1
Interview with Grace Brown (aged 75) of Langholm about the time when the town council invited astronaut, Neil Armstrong, to visit the town shortly after his moon landing. Langholm was the ancestral h...

Interviews of David Macdonald

EERC/EL/EL11/2
In this interview, the fieldworker speaks to her husband, David, about his early life and childhood. David's grandfather came from Mull and had moved to East Lothian where he set up his six sons in b...