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Interviews of D A Murray,

EERC/ES/ES6/3

Working life Mills Weaving Community Life Transport North Tolsta (Tolastadh bho Thuath), Isle of Lewis (Eilean Leòdhais), Scotland Stornoway (Steornabhagh), Western Isles, Scotland Shawbost (Siabost), Isle of Lewis (Eilean Leòdhais), Scotland

In this interview, D A Murray, who went to school in North Tolsta and then to Lewes Castle College in Stornoway, speaks about his working life which spanned over fifty years. D A recalls that the Lew...

Interviews of Ian Mackay,

EERC/ES/ES6/9

Working life Industry Weaving Community Life Fire Fighters Rowing Shawbost (Siabost), Isle of Lewis (Eilean Leòdhais), Scotland Shawbost (Siabost), Isle of Lewis (Eilean Leòdhais), Scotland

In this interview Ian Mackay (b. Shawbost) talks about his life and career as a Harris Tweed weaver. As a backdrop to the interview Ian is tyeing in a new piece of work which involves threading in, ...

Interviews of Donald Mackay,

EERC/ES/ES6/8

Working life Industry Weaving Mills Material Culture Gender Community Life Education Aird (Àird an Rubha), Isle of Lewis (Eilean Leòdhais), Scotland Flesherin (Na Fleisirean), Isle of Lewis (Eilean Leòdhais), Scotland Stornoway (Steornabhagh), Western Isles, Scotland

In this interview, Donald Mackay, aged 70, talks about his life and associations with the weaving industry. Donald was brought up in Flesherin and went to school in Aird and then Lews college in Stor...

Interviews of Roddy Morrison,

EERC/ES/ES6/1

Childhood Education Working life Weaving Wool Material Culture Community Life Language Scottish Gaelic language Lewis, Isle of (Eilean Leòdhais), Scotland Harris, Isle of (Na Hearadh), Scotland Shawbost (Siabost), Isle of Lewis (Eilean Leòdhais), Scotland Bragar (Bràgair), Isle of Lewis (Eilean Leòdhais), Scotland

In this interview, Roddy Morrison (aged 87, b. Bragar) talks about his childhood, working life and retirement. Roddy attended the local primary school, which was over two miles away and to which he w...

Interviews of Calum Maclean,

EERC/ES/ES6/6

Working life Weaving Industrial Relations Mills Material Culture Community Life Trade Unions Knockaird (An Cnoc Àrd), Isle of Lewis (Eilean Leòdhais), Scotland Lewis, Isle of (Eilean Leòdhais), Scotland

In this interview, Callum Maclean (aged 75, b. Ness) talks about his life, his working life as a weaver and about his role in developing and introducing the double-width loom to the Harris Tweed indus...

Interviews of Agnes Murray and Dolly Joan Maclean,

EERC/ES/ES7/3

Childhood Community Life Working life Industry Weaving Social Life and Customs Dancing Carloway (Càrlabhagh), Isle of Lewis (Eilean Leòdhais), Scotland Shawbost (Siabost), Isle of Lewis (Eilean Leòdhais), Scotland

In this interview, cousins Agnes Murray (b. c. 1945) and Dolly John (b. c. 1948) talks about growing up, working life and community around their home village of Shawbost and the Shawbost mill. Dolly ...

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