In track 1 of 4 (EL2/17/1/1) Mr Gray (b.1914) talks about his life as a police-man in Musselburgh. This track concentrates on his early working life, wages and working conditions. Mr Gray went into ...

In the first track of 4 (EL2/39/1/1), Mrs Veitch (born c.1903) talks about her early childhood at Olive Bank, Musselburgh, where she lived with her grandmother, aunt and uncle. She was raised by her ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Track 1 of 2 (DG27/6/1/3) of a biographical interview recorded on 18 December 2013 with Spencer Kennedy (b. 1945) about his early life in Thornhill. Spencer's father was the local vet and his mother ...

Biographical interview with Dan McKie (b. 1941) who was born in Hampshire and moved to Scotland when he was five, to stay with his granny after his father was demobbed from the RAF. He has lived in D...

Autobiographical interview with Archie Wight who used to visit his aunt and uncle in a cottage on the Cumstoun estate near Twynholm in the late 1930s and early years of World War 2. Topics covered in...

In this interview, twins Agnes Macdonald and Helen McNeill (both 87 years old) talk about their childhood in Bellhaven, where their father was the local policeman. The women talk about being at the l...

In this interview, Allan Pratt, who was born in Glasgow and moved to Haddington when he was a young schoolboy, talks about his life in East Lothian, especially his career as a musician. Allan's fathe...