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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 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. ...

Interview of Michael Fairnie by the Vocational Service Project,

EERC/EL/EL2/14

Working life Fishing Conservation Nature Technology Community Life Social Systems Musselburgh Peterhead (Scotland) Yarmouth Holland (Netherlands : Province) Iceland

In this interview Michael Fairnie talks about his life growing up at Fisherrow and working as a fisherman. Michael has a strong interest in the history of Fisherrow and the herring fishing and can dat...

Interview of Mrs Gibb Mrs Walker and Mr Walker by an unknown female ,

EERC/EL/EL2/15

Community Life Church Recreation Amateur Theatre Social Systems Buildings Musselburgh Smeaton Whitekirk

In this interview, siblings Miss Walker, Mr Walker and Mrs Gibb talk about amateur dramatics in Musselburgh, particularly the St Michael Players (formerly, the Inveresk Church Youth Organisation's Dra...

Interviews of Archie Johnstone by an unknown female ,

EERC/EL/EL2/22

Working life Fishing Social Systems Material Culture Community Life Travel Dunbar Musselburgh Seahouses (England) Peterhead (Scotland) Eyemouth, Berwickshire, Scotland

In the first interview of 3 (EL2/22/1) Archie talks about leaving school in 1952 and starting work as a deck hand on his father's boat. His first trip was sailing out 20 miles north-east of Dunbar for...

Interviews of Catherine Knight by Lorna Lewis,

EERC/EL/EL2/23

Community Life shops Social Systems Poetry Nature Foodways Musselburgh Fisherrow Scotland -- Fife -- Dunfermline

Catherine Knight, who was born in Musselburgh in 1897, was interviewed by Lorna Lewis of the Musselburgh History Group in 1985. The focus of the inteview is the life and work of Catherine's father, R...

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