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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 Hugh Ramsay

EERC/DG/DG4/25

Childhood Working life Farming Domestic Life Transport Shopping World War, 1939-1945 Clothing and dress Language Galloway House Garlieston Stranraer

Biographical interview with Hugh Ramsay whose family took over Millisle Farm near Garlieston in 1931. Primarily a dairy farm, Millisle was involved with cheese-making until 1970. Their milk producti...

Interviews of Heather Millar aged 64

EERC/DG/DG13/3

Childhood Community Life Housing Working life Shopping Social Systems Entertainment Transport Kirkcudbright

Biographical interview with Heather Miller (b. 1947) who was born and brought up in Kirkcudbright. Much of the interview is about Heather's grandparents' home which was a fisherman's cottage down nea...

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...

Interview of Hamish Gibson

EERC/EL/EL3/1

Childhood Education Sports Shopping Farming Working life World War, 1939-1945 Community Life Nature Weather Haddington Garvald Papana Water

In this interview, Hamish Gibson (b. 1936) talks about his childhood and life around Garvald and Carfrae Farm. Hamish recalls especially times during World War 2, when he was a schoolboy. He remembe...

Interviews of Charles Horne

EERC/EL/EL7/1

Childhood Working life Fishing Health Technology Shopping Recreation Sexuality World War, 1939-1945 Religion Port Seton Prestonpans Rothesay Morrison's Haven Seton Castle Firth of Forth Anstruther Port Dundas Musselburgh Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland Troon Cockenzie Lochranza Aberlady Bay

EL7/1/1/1 is the first in a series of interview tracks recorded with Charles (Charlie) Horne (b. 1926) of Port Seton. Charlie begins by expaining that his family have fishing connections to Port Seto...

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.

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