Interviews conducted by Ailsa Fortune
EERC/EL/EL5
Ailsa Fortune conducted a total of 2 recordings with 2 interviewees, carried out in 2018.
Interviews of Mrs Brown by an unknown female,
EERC/EL/EL2/4
Childhood
Working life
Fishing
Transport
Foodways
Community Life
Language
Religion
Musselburgh
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
In interview 1 of 2 (EL2/4/1/1), Mrs Brown talks about her fishing heritage. When she was a child, her mother would be up at 5am to go down to Musselburgh to buy fish for the day. While she was away,...
Interview of Charles Scott by Lorna Lewis
EERC/EL/EL2/31
In this first track 1 of 7(EL2/31/1/1), Charles Scott (b.1914) talks about his early life on the old dam brae in Musselburgh. He recalls the family home, a 2 room dwelling which sat behind a couple o...