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Interview of 75 year old born at Palnackie

EERC/DG/DG10/13

Childhood Education Farming Domestic Life shops Social Life and Customs Marriage Entertainment Christmas New Year

Biographical interview with a 75 year old who was born at Palnackie in 1938. Her family had a small dairy farm and she could remember standing in the milking shed in clogs aged around 4. She also r...

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 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 Maisie and Tommy Dodds by Colin MacDonald,

EERC/EL/EL2/11

Childhood Domestic Life Foodways Recreation Social Life and Customs Education Tranent Musselburgh

In this interview, Colin MacDonald (a child himself at this time) interviews his grandparents Maisie (b.1917) and Tommy (b. 1914) Dodds about their childhood. He speaks to Maisie first. Maisie had 4...

Interviews of Mary Jamieson by Lorna Lewis

EERC/EL/EL2/20

Domestic Life Housing Foodways Gender World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1939-1945 Education Social Life and Customs shops Working life Edinburgh Musselburgh Inveresk (East Lothian, Scotland)

In the first interview of 5 (EL2/20/1/1) Mary Jamieson (born c.1905, Musselburgh) begins by speaking about her early family life in Hercus Loan, Musselburgh. As well as recalling the interior of the ...

Interviews of Donald 'Barrs' Maclean,

EERC/ES/ES7/6

Childhood Social Life and Customs Community Life Housing Transport Working life Weaving Armed Forces Education Merchant ships | Shawbost (Siabost), Isle of Lewis (Eilean Leòdhais), Scotland Stornoway (Steornabhagh), Western Isles, Scotland

In this interview, Donald Maclean (b. Shawbost, c. 1950), who is known as Barrs, talks about his life and connections to weaving. His mum and dad were both local and Barrs recalls that every home had...

Interviews of Sheila Murray,

EERC/SB/SB1/1

Working life Education Teaching World War, 1939-1945 Community Life Social Life and Customs Industry Textile industry Foodways Peebles, Scottish Borders, Scotland

Sheila Murray (b. 1927, Scottish Borders) has lived in Peebles since she was 3 years old and was interviewed by the EERC primarily in connection with a recording made with her brother, Duncan Murray, ...

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