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 Robert McQuistan
EERC/DG/DG2
Robert McQuistan conducted a total of 17 interviews with 14 interviewees, carried out between 2012 and 2014.
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 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 John Armstrong aged 72
EERC/DG/DG3/3
Customs and Traditions
Working life
Agriculture
Neighbouring
Sheep herding
Nature
Birds
Foot-and-mouth disease
Social Life and Customs
Peat Bogs (Habitats)
Mosses
World War, 1939-1945
Hawick
Terrona, Dumfries and Galloway
Langholm
Interview with John Armstrong while he was out cutting peats on his peat hag at Middlemoss. John, who has been a herd at Terrona, Middlemoss for 46 years, describes his working life in detail. The pe...
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 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 George (Paddy) Finlay aged 77
EERC/DG/DG38/25
Working life
Rubber
Social structure
Recreation
Social Life and Customs
Transport
Dumfries (Scotland)
George Finlay (known as Paddy) was born in Thornhill in 1938. In this interview he talks about his working life at the rubber factory in Dumfries, 1972-1999. He worked in the mill room preparing the...