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Interviews of Davie Graham aged 87

EERC/DG/DG27/10

Childhood Sports Fiddle tunes -- Scotland Mining Community Life Customs and Traditions Television Radio Broadcasting World War, 1939-1945

Detailed autobiographical interview with 87 year old Davie Graham. When Davie was a small child his father was made undermanager at Gateside Colliery and an early memory is of playing with his pedal ...

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...

Interview of Jennie Edmunds by an unknown female , 20th century

EERC/EL/EL2/13

Childhood Social Systems Community Life Health Mining Prestongrange Edinburgh

In this interview Janet (Jennie) Edmunds talks about her life and especially her childhood in Morrison's Haven. Her parents had moved there, returning from time in America, when her father got a job ...

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 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 ...

Interviews of Mrs Veitch by David Fisher,

EERC/EL/EL2/39

Childhood Working life Clothing Language Childrens games Customs and Traditions Travel and Holidays Mining Foodways Christmas Musselburgh Tranent

In the first track of 4 (EL2/39/1/1), Mrs Veitch (born c.1903) talks about her early childhood at Olive Bank, Musselburgh, where she lived with her grandmother, aunt and uncle. She was raised by her ...

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