In this interview, May Trower talks about her working life in Musselburgh between leaving school and getting married. May worked first in the Inveresk paper mill and then in Stuart's net mill. She e...

In the first part of this interview (EL2/6/1/1 track 1 of 2), Mr Clark talks about his life in farming in East Lothian. He could remember when the cattle and sheep were walked down to East Linton for...

In the first track of 11 (EL2/24/1/1) Peggy Gray Livingston, who was born in Fisherrow in 1914, talks about her early home life. Peggy's parents were both from Musselburgh and she explains a little o...

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 track 1 of 2 (EL2/28/1/1) the interviewer asks a group of Ormiston men about life and change over time. All of the men are older, apart from one, John, who is often called on to give a different p...

In track 1 of 2 (EL2/35/1/1), Thomas Taylor (born around 1910), who has lived in Musselburgh all his life talks about how the town has changed over the decades. He remembers a time when Musselburgh w...

In this interview, Mrs Stevenson talks about her family's connections to golfing and North Berwick. Mrs Stevenson talks about the history of golfing in the area, noting that the arrival of the railwa...

In this first track 1 of 7(EL2/31/1/1), Charles Scott (b.1914) talks about his early life on the old dam brae in Musselburgh. He recalls the family home, a 2 room dwelling which sat behind a couple o...

In track 1 of 4 (EL12/19/1/1) Mr and Mrs Hyde talk about their working lives at Inveresk paper mill. Both went into the mill from school, aged 14, and said that most school-leavers at that time would...

In this interview Frances Rae (b.1925) tells David Fisher about her working life with Stewart's net mill in Musselburgh. Track 1 of 4 (EL2/30/1/1 1). To get a job at that time, people would just go ...