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Interviews of Marion Sunderland

EERC/DG/DG4/19

Childhood Working life Teaching Community Life Housing Foodways Recreation World War, 1939-1945 Shopping Religion Fishing Whithorn Garlieston

Biographical interview with Marion Sunderland whose family moved to Whithorn when she was a small child. Marion's mother was a teacher and Marion also became a primary school teacher after studying i...

Interviews of Sheila Austin aged 69

EERC/DG/DG27/9

Childhood Working life Farming Social Systems Community Life Education Shopping Foodways Entertainment Dumfries (Scotland) Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway Nether Glaisters

Biographical interview with Sheila Austin (aged 70) who recalls life on a sheep farm. Her father's family had been at Nether Glaisters for 5 generations and this was her first home. The family then ...

Interviews conducted by Vivian Hastie,

EERC/EL/EL1

Childhood Education Play Sports Shopping Farming Working life Material Culture Travel Foodways

Vivian Hastie conducted 1 interview made with 1 interviewee, carried out in 2015.

Interviews of Gordon Hastie,

EERC/EL/EL1/1

Childhood Recreation Education Shopping Farming Working life Material Culture Travel Foodways Alderston Mains Haddington Ormiston

This interview, with Gordon Hastie (b. 1952 at Melvin Hall near Ormiston), is conducted by Gordon’s wife, Vivian. In 1958, his family moved to Alderston Mains, where Gordon and his family still liv...

Interviews of Sheila Young

EERC/EL/EL13/1

Childhood Working life Education Play Transport Shopping Foodways Community Life Literature East Linton Dunbar Edinburgh Belhaven Garvald West Barns

In interview 1 of 2 (EL13/1/1/1), Sheila Young recalls her childhood and early schooldays in East Linton. As an only child, she recalls how strange it was to start school and be around other children...

Interviews conducted by Alice Heywood

EERC/EL/EL29

Childhood Play Education Foodways Working life Fishing Housing Community Life Shopping Transport

Alice Heywood conducted 2 interviews made with 2 interviewees, both carried out in 2020.

Interviews of Betty Neil and Suzanne Ewing née Watson,

EERC/EL/EL29/2

Childhood Play Domestic Economy Foodways Working life Fishing Housing Community Life Shopping Transport Fisherrow Musselburgh Edinburgh

In this interview, sisters Betty and Suzanne, talk about growing up in Fisherrow. Their father was a fisherman and their home, at Bush Street, was one of a complex they believe was built by their gre...

Interviews of Ann McKillop ,

EERC/EL/EL6/20

Working life Fishing Mills Teaching Social Life and Customs Children Foodways Shopping Travel and Holidays

In this interview, Ann McKillop talks about her family and life in Musselburgh and especially about her aunt, Margaret Mitchell Gordon, who was born in 1920 and worked at Stuart's net mill from when s...

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