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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 David Macdonald

EERC/EL/EL11/2

Childhood Education Community Life Working life Recreation Sports Social Systems Toys shops Haddington Langholm Mull

In this interview, the fieldworker speaks to her husband, David, about his early life and childhood. David's grandfather came from Mull and had moved to East Lothian where he set up his six sons in b...

Interviews of Graham Wells

EERC/EL/EL11/8

Childhood Education Working life Housing Community Life Play Social Systems Music Sports Mining Banks and banking Ormiston Haddington Port Seton North Berwick Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland Dunbar Tranent

In this interview, Graham Wells (aged 46) from Ormiston talks about his childhood and working life in East Lothian. Graham recalls that his parents settled in Ormiston when they married. At that time...

Interviews of John Peters,

EERC/EL/EL39/4

Working life Community Life Sports Industry Farming Education

In this interview, John Peters, who was born in 1955 at the Verte hospital in Haddington grew up on Bielgrange Farm in Stenton where his father was a farm worker. Ian went to primary school at Stento...

Interviews of John (Jack) Halliday,

EERC/EL/EL39/8

Working life Community Life Weather Education Sports Football Rugby Music Transport Buildings

In this interview, John Halliday (b. 1942, Haddington) talks about his working life. He recalls that he left school on the Friday and started work on the Monday, with a local Haddington firm as a TV ...

Interviews of Hal McGhie aged 80

EERC/DG/DG46/14

Childhood Play Recreation Working life Business Sports Community Life Education World War, 1939-1945 National Service Transport Health Lochmaben Dumfries (Scotland)

Biographical interview with Hal McGhie (b. 1932) who was born in Lochmaben and has spent most of his life there. Hal begins by speaking about his early life and family history. He was one of 10 chil...

Interviews of Barry Craighead

EERC/EL/EL26/1

Childhood Education Working life Death Customs Sports Weather Community Life World War, 1939-1945 Evacuees National Service Musselburgh Dunvegan

In this interview, Barry Craighead (b. 1938, Croydon) talks about his evacuation to Musselbugh at the age of 4; his early life; working life; National Service and his lifelong association with cycling...

Interviews conducted by Haddington Active Memories Group,

EERC/EL/EL36

Childhood Education Community Life World War, 1939-1945 Working life Sports Politics National Service Rugby Health

This collection of interviews conducted by Haddington Active Memories is currently being catalogued and will be available to listen to in due course.

Interviews of David Elder,

EERC/EL/EL36/1

Childhood Education Community Life World War, 1939-1945 Working life Sports National Service Rugby Health

In this interview, David Elder (b. 1936 in Galashiels) shares memories of his childhood, working life, national service and his more recent love of fishing. David spent his early life in Galashiels w...

Interviews conducted by Katie Shepherd and Ailsa Dixon ,

EERC/EL/EL39

Working life Community Life Transport Railways Sports Industry Education

These interviews were made as part of a collaborative project between the RESP Archive Project and the archive team at the John Gray Centre in Haddington. Two RESP Archive Project interns, Katie Shep...

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