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Interviews of Peter Alexander Scott aged 45

EERC/DG/DG22/1

Childhood Education Community Life Social Systems Working life Armed Forces Tourism Wanlockhead Lowther Hill

Biographical interview which concentrates on schooldays, life at Meadowfoot (where he lived for much of his childhood, how Wanlockhead has changed over time and his time with the RAF. Peter's father...

Interviews of George McClymont aged 74

EERC/DG/DG26/15

Childhood Domestic Life Education Working life Fishing Transport shops Community Life World War, 1939-1945 Religion Tourism

Biographical interview with George McClymont (b. 1931) about his early days in Portpatrick. George talks about the family home and domestic arrangements, recalling that the family of nine had running...

Interviews of Alastair Reid aged 86,

EERC/DG/DG4/6

Childhood Community Life Recreation Language Domestic Life shops Tourism World War, 1939-1945 Whithorn Wigtown

Biographical interview with poet and translator Alastair Reid (b.1926) who speaks about his childhood in Whithorn and his relationship to the community and the region. Alastair describes his childhoo...

Interviews of John Scoular aged 80

EERC/DG/DG4/7

Childhood Community Life Farming Housing shops Tourism World War, 1939-1945 Glasserton Whithorn

Biographical interview with John Scoular (b. 1931) whose father was minister at Glasserton church until he retired from there in 1946. In this interview John talks about his childhood and remembers t...

Interviews of Jock McMaster

EERC/DG/DG4/11

Childhood Working life Farming Foodways Transport Community Life Tourism Recreation World War, 1939-1945

Biographical interview with Jock McMaster, a farmer in his late 70s, who has always lived in the Monreith area. His family came to Blairbury farm around 1830, initially as tenant farmers. During thi...

Interviews of Robin Kinnear

EERC/DG/DG4/12

Childhood Working life shops Community Life Tourism Housing Clothing trade Farming World War, 1939-1945 Death Transport Port William Monreith Whithorn Parton

Biographical interview with Robin Kinnear. Robin's great-grandfather had moved to Port William as a tailor in 1898 and the family business of drapers had continued from there, eventually including fu...

Interviews of Margerie Clark aged 58

EERC/DG/DG4/24

Childhood Working life Religion Catholic Church Transport World War, 1939-1945 Community Life Tourism Whithorn Sorbie St Ninian's Cave

Track 1 (of 2) of a biographical interview with Margerie Clark (b. 1955). Margerie's mother was from Whithorn and had met her father, a lithotypist from London, when he was based at Kidsdale camp. A...

Interviews conducted by Hilary Alcock and Flora McDowall, bulk: , 20th century

EERC/DG/DG50

Art Childhood Working life Community Life Social Systems Tourism

Hilary Alcock and Flora McDowall conducted 10 recordings with 7 interviewees, carried out in 2018.

Interviews of Hazel Twiname

EERC/DG/DG50/7

Art Childhood Community Life Working life Tourism Kirkcudbright Parton

This interview forms part of the Kirkcudbright Artists Remembered project. This project was active during the refurbishment of the Kirkcudbright Town hall into the Kirkcudbright Galleries centre and ...

Interviews conducted by Pamela Baillie and Susan Howell

EERC/DG/DG51

Art Community Life Childhood Material Culture Tourism Emigration

Pamela Baillie and Susan Howell conducted 4 recordings with 5 interviewees, carried out in 2018.

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