Interviews of Marion Sunderland
EERC/DG/DG4/19
Biographical interview with Marion Sunderland whose family moved to Whithorn when she was a small child. Marion's mother was a teacher and Marion also became a primary school teacher after studying i...
EERC/DG/DG4/19
Biographical interview with Marion Sunderland whose family moved to Whithorn when she was a small child. Marion's mother was a teacher and Marion also became a primary school teacher after studying i...
EERC/DG/DG15/2
Biographical interview with Allan Foulds (aged 78) from the Isle of Whithorn. Allan has lived his whole life here, only leaving to do his National Service (1954-56). His father had a joinery busines...
EERC/DG/DG17/3
Biographical interview with friends, Alex Inman (b.1946) and Richard Kinghorn (b.1945). This interview is largely about childhood, especially home-life and schooldays in Dumfries. The men share memo...
EERC/DG/DG4/4
Interview with Jessie McLean (b. 1916) who was born in Whithorn where she has lived all her life. Jessie was born into the Jolly family who were a large and well-known family at the top of the town....
EERC/DG/DG4/12
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...
EERC/DG/DG4/13
Biographical interview with Judy Brown (b. 1939) who could trace her family history in the area to the 1850s when her grandfather had Zorach and Outreach farms. Judy talks about farming, the Irish po...
EERC/DG/DG4/16
In track 1 (of 2) of this biographical interview, Kenny Doonan (b.c1930s) describes his childhood on Barrachen Estate, where his mother had Home Farm and kept a small dairy herd. Kenny went on to wor...
EERC/DG/DG4/17
Biographical interview with Jean Rennie, who was born in Aryshire and has lived most of her life in Wigtownshire. Jean talks about her childhood at Capenoch Farm. The family had a dairy herd and gre...
EERC/DG/DG4/22
Biographical interview with Betty McBratney who was born at Outen, a cottage on the Garlieston Road. Betty talks about her life and the various places she has lived and worked. She left school at 13...
EERC/DG/DG4/27
Biographical interview with Alex Haswell (b.1954) who was born and grew up in Whithorn. In the early part of this interview Alex talks about his parents, childhood, schooldays and memories of Whithor...