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Interviews of William (Billy) Bell

EERC/EL/EL8/1

Working life Farming Material Culture Community Life Religion Recreation Sports Gender Garvald Morham Reston Nunraw Abbey Dunglass Estate

In this interview, Billy (William) Bell shares memories of his working life and church life, particularly in the area around Garvald and Morham. Billy was born in Hawick and spent some time working i...

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 Ailsa Lawrie

EERC/EL/EL12/4

Childhood Education Community Life Sports Nature Transport Humbie Lammermuir Hills

In this interview, Ailsa (aged 9) talks about her life in Humbie and particularly her school days. Ailsa speaks about her daily routines at school in the village of Humbie where all 22 pupils are tau...

Interviews of John Stephen Hannah

EERC/EL/EL15/2

Childhood Housing Community Life Social Systems Working life Sports Recreation Police Religion Dunbar Glasgow Lossiemouth

In this interview, John Hannah (b.1957) shares stories from his childhood and youth. John was born in Glasgow and moved to Dunbar as part of the Glasgow overspill around 1963. He recalls details fro...

Interview of Irene Bailley - by Filip Kai Eve Harry and Alice

EERC/EL/EL21/4

Working life Teaching Technology Foodways Sports Play Education Musselburgh Tyninghame Middleton Moor

This is one of a series of interviews conducted by P6 pupils at Campie Primary School with former pupils and staff of the school.

Interview of Jill Robertson - by Niamh Howie Finlay Oliver and Jayne

EERC/EL/EL21/8

Childhood Education Play Sports Buildings Material Culture Working life Musselburgh

This is one of a series of interviews conducted by P6 pupils at Campie Primary School with former pupils and staff of the school.

Interviews of Andrew Mason,

EERC/EL/EL39/2

Working life shops Community Life Family Foster parents Sports Pandemic

In this interview, Andrew Mason (b. 1960, Edinburgh) talks about his working life which started, aged 17, when he went to work for Waring & Gillow on South Bridge, Edinburgh. He describes this as a g...

Interviews of Ian Fairgrieve,

EERC/EL/EL39/3

Working life Community Life Construction Industry Banks and banking Architecture Law Sports

In this interview, Ian Fairgrieve, who was born in Macmerry c1956, shares memories of his working life , which began when he was a teenager, working at Boggs Holdings, helping to cultivate and then ha...

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...

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