Interviews of Ian Jack
EERC/DG/DG26/25
Biographical interview with Ian Jack who runs the family firm, Alex Jack Butcher, in Stranraer. Ian talks about the family firm, which opened in 1914. He recalls that there were 10-12 employees with...
Interviews of Jim Wallace
EERC/DG/DG26/32
Interview with Jim Wallace (b. 1929) who was born into a farming family at Mull Farm, Kirkcowan. The family then moved to West Ringuinea on the Ardwell estate and Jim started farming there after he l...
Interviews of Valerie Barrie aged 74
EERC/DG/DG41/1
Childhood
Working life
shops
Butchers
Livestock
Transport
Slaughtering and slaughter-houses
Port William
Newton Stewart
Luce Bay
Whauphill
Biographical interview with Valerie Barrie (b. 1940, Dundee) whose family came from Motherwell in the early 1900s and opened 2 butcher's shops, one in Newton Stewart and one in Port William. Valerie ...