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Interviews of Fiona and Jack Ross aged 45 and 11

EERC/DG/DG21/1

Childhood Community Life Education Social Systems Working life Recreation Travel and Holidays Music shops Sanquhar Wanlockhead

Biographical interview with Fiona Ross (b. 1967) and her son, Jack (aged 11) who live in Wanlockhead. Fiona has always lived in Wanlockhead and has strong family connections to the area. Her grandmo...

Interviews of Hazel-Jane Moffat aged 39,

EERC/DG/DG23/1

Childhood Recreation Education Music Working life Community Life Social Systems Weather Wanlockhead Leadhills

In this interview Hazel talks about her life in Wanlockhead where she has spent most of her life. She lived in Leadhills until she was six and then the family took over running the old Co-op in Wanlo...

Interviews of Winnie Johnstone aged 66

EERC/DG/DG2/3

Childhood Agriculture Dairy Farming Business Recreation Travel and Holidays Working life Social Systems Carsluith Auchenlarie Holiday Park

Initial interview track (DG2/3/1/1) with Winnie Johnstone, aged 66, about her early life at Auchenlarie farm, which her father bought when she was 4 years old. As well as a dairy the farm grew corn ...

Interviews of Sandra Tweedie aged 74

EERC/DG/DG2/9

Childhood Social Systems Community Life Recreation Education Living Conditions Sanitation Lighting Foodways Working life Quarries and Quarrying Carsluith Creetown

Interview with Sandra Tweedie about her life in Carsluith. Lots of detail is given about the home interior and renovations over time, such as the move from dry toilet to indoor facilities. Sandra's ...

Interviews of David Doughty aged 90

EERC/DG/DG9/1

Childhood Education Working life Business Transport Community Life Recreation Social Systems Street Lighting Sanitation Whithorn

In this interview, (DG9/1/1/1 track 1 of 3) Mr David Doughty (born 1922), with input from his wife, Cathy, who is also present describes life in Kirkcudbright around the 1930s (and later). David's gr...

Interviews of Dorothy Sneddon aged 68

EERC/DG/DG10/15

Childhood Education Working life Nursing | Practice Recreation Social Systems Superstitions Foodways Newton Stewart Minnigaff Bargrennan

Biographical interview with Dorothy Sneddon, aged 68, who was born in Newton Stewart where she stayed until the day before her 16th birthday, when she went to Irvine to begin her nurse training. Doro...

Interviews of Billy McKeand aged 69

EERC/DG/DG13/5

Childhood Tuberculosis Working life Recreation Travel and Holidays Transport Social Systems shops Armed Forces Coalmen Kirkcudbright

Biographical interview with Billy McKeand (born 1943) who has lived his whole life in Kirkcudbright. Billy talks a little about his early childhood. For a few years, he spent his summer holidays wit...

Interviews of Wacek Kaczmarczyk aged 58

EERC/DG/DG27/4

Social Systems Italian (Cultural Identity) Polish (Cultural Identity) World War, 1939-1945 Working life Forests and forestry Education Recreation Foodways Religion Dumfries (Scotland) Mouswald

Biographical interview with Wacek Kaczmarczyk (b. 1956) who was born in Dumfries to Polish parents. Wacek's parents had arrived in Scotland through very different routes. His mother spent World War ...

Interviews of Norman Burns aged 65

EERC/DG/DG27/5

Education Childhood Recreation Working life Social Systems Community Life Customs and Traditions Common Ridings (Festivals) Sanquhar

Biographical interview with Norman Burns (aged 65), who has lived in Sanquhar his whole life. He was born at home, into a family of 10, and his father died, in a mining accident, when he was only 4 y...

Interviews of Linda Petrie and Trudy Grant

EERC/EL/EL6/3

Childhood Education Community Life Social Systems Recreation Working life Teaching Gender Housing Transport Haddington Edinburgh Wallyford Prestonpans Musselburgh Longniddry North Berwick Leith Ballencrieff

In this interview, mother and daughter Trudy (b.1931) and Linda (b.1954) talk about living in East Lothian in the 1960s. The family had moved to Haddington when Mr Grant came to work as a teacher at ...

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