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Interviews of Roma Hunter aged 54

EERC/DG/DG2/5

Social Systems Family Education Punishment Working life Social Systems Wool industry Women Child Care Services Newton Stewart Creetown Carsluith Barholm, Dumfries and Galloway

Autobiographical interview with Roma Hunter which concentrates mainly on family life, schooldays and ongoing education. Roma describes the family home and the roles within the family and the impact o...

Interviews of Erica Thomson aged 46

EERC/DG/DG2/11

Education Working life Wool industry Laundry Creetown Newton Stewart

Autobiographical interview with Erica Thomson who has always lived in Creetown. Topics covered include the jobs her parents did (mother worked at Auchenlarie caravan park and father was, for a time, a...

Interviews of Dr Guy (Gavin) Brown

EERC/DG/DG4/10

Childhood Working life Health Community Life Recreation Education World War, 1939-1945 Port William Newton Stewart Monreith

Biographical interview with Guy Brown who was born in Port William. Guy's father had been the local GP and Guy followed him into the profession and took over the surgery in due course. He talks abou...

Interviews of Isobel Sutherland aged 57

EERC/DG/DG8/1

Education Working life Agriculture Recreation Childrens games Dancing Business Landscape Nature Transport Needlework Religion Foodways Kirkcudbright Newton Stewart Castle Douglas Dumfries (Scotland) Ringford, Dumfries and Galloway Twynholm Tarff Martyrs Monument, Dumfries and Galloway Tongland

Interview 1 of 3 (DG8/1/1/1) with Isobel Sutherland which focuses on her life in Ringford, where she lived from aged 5 until she married aged 20. Isobel gives details about her early school life and ...

Interviews of Dolly Ferries aged 83

EERC/DG/DG10/12

Childhood Education Farming World War, 1939-1945 Rationing Recreation Working life Domestic personnel Housing Foodways Social Life and Customs Marriage Emigration Newton Stewart Garlieston Baldoon North Balfern Kirkinner Baltersan Dalry, Dumfries and Galloway Loch Doon

Biographical interview (DG10/12/1/1 is track 1 of 2) with Dolly Ferries, aged 83, who was born at North Balfern, Kirkinner where her father was a shepherd. Her earliest memory was aged around 3, when...

Interviews of Dorothy Sneddon aged 68

EERC/DG/DG10/15

Childhood Education Working life Nursing | Practice Recreation Social Systems Superstitions Foodways Newton Stewart Minnigaff Bargrennan

Biographical interview with Dorothy Sneddon, aged 68, who was born in Newton Stewart where she stayed until the day before her 16th birthday, when she went to Irvine to begin her nurse training. Doro...

Interviews of Jim McGuffie

EERC/DG/DG47/18

Working life Agriculture Mills Community Life shops Quarries and Quarrying Education World War, 1939-1945 Carsluith Whithorn Newton Stewart Gatehouse of Fleet Creetown

In this interview DG47/18/1/1 ( track 1 of 4), Jim McGuffie (b.1921) tells David Hannay about his life, especially living and working in the mill - which was owned by his father. Jim, who was just ab...

Interviews of Nancy McGuffie

EERC/DG/DG47/20

Community Life Working life Education Childhood Health World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1939-1945 Carsluith Creetown Newton Stewart

In this interview Nancy McGuffie tells David Hannay about her life. She came to Carsluith as a very young child, after her mother was widowed. Her mother bought the house Mrs McGuffie now stays in fo...

Interview of Ann McClymont born c.1936 at Palnackie

EERC/DG/DG10/14

Childhood Education Working life Farming Customs and Traditions Marriage Newton Stewart Palnackie

Biographical interview with Ann McClymont born Palnackie c.1936 in which she talks about her childhood, teaching and her life as a farmer's wife. She talks about school and using a slate for writing ...

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