Dumfries and Galloway Regional Study
EERC/DG
302 interviews (346 audio files) amounting to approximately 221 hours of material. Work carried out by 49 fieldworkers with 277 interviewees (135 male, 142 female) Some video and photographic mater...
Interviews conducted by Mairi Telford Jammeh
EERC/DG/DG3
Maira Telford-Jammeh conducted a total of 6 interviews with 4 interviewees, carried out between 2012 and 2014.
Interviews of Jim Gordon aged 87
EERC/DG/DG13/8
Education
Social Systems
Entertainment
World War, 1939-1945
Farming
Community Life
Choral Music
Visual arts
shops
Social Life and Customs
Kirkcudbright
Twynholm
Creetown
Tongland
Boreland of Girthon
Biographical interview with Jim Gordon (87) who was born in Lanark and moved to Kircudbrightshire when his father, a chemist specialising in agricultural supplies, bought Mullock and Corrahill farms. ...
Interviews of Robert Ross aged 71
EERC/DG/DG2/7
Working life
Quarries and Quarrying
Education
Punishment
Community Life
Social Life and Customs
Housing
Carsluith
Creetown
Gatehouse of Fleet
Interview with Robert (Rab) Ross who was born in Carsluith. The interview is concerned with Rab's working life and particularly his 32 years at the Creetown quarry. He talks about many aspects of li...
Interviews of Wyllie McCulloch aged 51
EERC/DG/DG2/8
Working life
Business
Fishmongers
Recreation
Amateur Theatre
Community Life
Social Life and Customs
Creetown
Gatehouse of Fleet
Auchenlarie
Interview with Wyllie McCulloch who's father bought Auchenlarie farm when he was a child. Initially run as a dairy farm with some beef, pigs, sheep, tatties and racing horses, Auchenlarie was eventua...
Interviews of Jez Noad aged 54
EERC/DG/DG2/10
Interview with Jez Noad who moved to Creetown in 2005 after spending most of his life in the south of England. He decided to retire early following a college course experience which confirmed for him...
Interviews of Les Hilton,
EERC/EL/EL6/22
Working life
Industry
Mills
Social Life and Customs
Health and Safety
Community Life
Apprenticeship Programs
In this interview, Les Hilton (b. 1950, Musselburgh), talks about his working life and apprenticeship with Brunton's wire mill. Les went to Brunton's aged 15 and worked in the office until his 5 year...
Interviews of Mrs Fisher
EERC/DG/DG47/10
In this interview, Mrs Fisher (b.c.1911) talks to David Hannay about her life in Carsluith. Mrs Fisher's father moved to Carsluith as a teacher in 1919 and remained there until 1930. By that time, ...
Interviews of Alex and Mrs MacLean
EERC/DG/DG47/11
Housing
Industry
Social Life and Customs
Scottish Travellers (Nomadic people)
Transport
shops
Quarries and Quarrying
Community Life
Health
Recreation
Kirkcudbright
Carsluith
Kirkmabreck
Kirkdale, Dumfries and Galloway
In DG47/11/1/1 (track 1 of 4), Alex MacLean (b.c.1900) and Mrs MacLean talk to David Hannay about Kirkdale, Ravenshall and Creetown. Alex's father worked in the gardens at Kirkdale and his memories d...
Interviews of Irene Doak and Maureen Wood
EERC/DG/DG47/23
In this interview Irene Doak (63) and Maureen Wood (64) share their memories of Ravenshall and Carsluith with David. Maureen's family moved to the area when she was seven and her grandfather was chau...