Bob MacDonald, born 1924, interviewed by Caroline Milligan on the February 2014 at Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, his daughter Heather also present. Ref: DG17-4-1-2 © European Ethnological Research Centre, 2017. Bob, is showing…
Bill McCaig interviewed by Jack Hunter on the 16th May 1999 in Stranraer. Ref: DG26-4-1-2 © European Ethnological Research Centre, 2017. JH: Now, you’ve been involved in farming for the greater part of…
Jock McMaster interviewed by Julia Muir Watt at Blairbuy, near Monreath Ref: DG4-11-1-2 © European Ethnological Research Centre, 2017. JMcM: But Michael, Michael next door is…I see him quite a bit, he’s back here…
Pam Walker interviewed by Betty Paisley on the 17th July, in Collin. Ref: DG33-3-1-2 © European Ethnological Research Centre, 2017. PW: But that was it and then jist normal play things, ah liked…
Kate Nichol interviewed by Robert McQuistan on 14 January 2014, in Carsluith. Ref: DG2-7-1-2 © European Ethnological Research Centre, 2017. Robert asks Kate about the beginning of her married life at a house on the…
Billy Young interviewed by Mairi Telford-Jammeh on 3 March 2013, in Langholm.Interviewed: 3 March 2013. Ref: DG3-4-1-2 © European Ethnological Research Centre, 2016. Mhairi asks Billy about his day as cornet, and Billy remembers with…
Interviewed: 3 March 2013. Ref: DG3-4-1-2 © European Ethnological Research Centre, 2016. Billy Young give a rendition of the fair cry given at the Langholm Common Riding MT-J: If you could give us a rendition…
Billy Young interviewed by Mairi Telford-Jammeh on 3 March 2013, in Langholm.Interviewed: 3 March 2013. Ref: DG3-4-1-2 © European Ethnological Research Centre, 2016.Billy recalls how the Cornet is elected and how it felt to become…
Billy Young interviewed by Mairi Telford-Jammeh on 3 March 2013, in Langholm. Interviewed: 3 March 2013. Ref: DG3-4-1-2 © European Ethnological Research Centre, 2016.Billy recalls the ritual of the banna testing ahead of the Langholm…
Billy Young interviewed by Mairi Telford-Jammeh on 3 March 2013, in Langholm.Interviewed: 3 March 2013. Ref: DG3-4-1-2 © European Ethnological Research Centre, 2016. Billy tells of some of the rituals associated with the Langholm Common…
Billy Young interviewed by Mairi Telford-Jammeh on 3 March 2013, in Langholm.Interviewed: 3 March 2013. Ref: DG3-4-1-2 © European Ethnological Research Centre, 2016. Billy tells of some of events which take place in the build-up…
Billy Young interviewed by Mairi Telford-Jammeh on 3 March 2013, in Langholm.Interviewed: 3 March 2013. Ref: DG3-4-1-2 © European Ethnological Research Centre, 2016. Billy recalls how the the Langholm Common Riding has chnaged over…
Billy Young interviewed by Mairi Telford-Jammeh on 3 March 2013, in Langholm.Interviewed: 3 March 2013. Ref: DG3-4-1-2 © European Ethnological Research Centre, 2016. Billy describes the events that make-up the Langholm Common Riding. MT-J: Can…
Billy Young interviewed by Mairi Telford-Jammeh on 3 March 2013, in Langholm. Billy recalls the Boy’s Common Riding, Langholm, at which the girls were the horses! Interviewed: 3 March 2013. Ref: DG3-4-1-2 © European Ethnological…
Joan Mitchell interviewed by Robert McQuistan on 13 August 2012, Carsluith. Interviewed: 13 August 2012. Ref: DG2-6-1-2 © European Ethnological Research Centre, 2016. Joan Mitchell recalls her father moving from Ayrshire to take a farm…
Interviewee interviewed by Mairi Telford-Jammeh on 15 May 2012, in Langholm. Interviewed: 15 May 2012. Ref: DG3-1-1-2 © European Ethnological Research Centre, 2016. A Langholm native explains how the common riding has been an influence…
Dorothy Sneddon, 68 years of age, interviewed by Kirsty Robertson on 4 June 2013, in Newton Stewart. Interviewed: 4 June 2013. Ref: DG10-15-1-2 © European Ethnological Research Centre, 2016. Dorothy recalls the layout and uses…
Winnie Johnstone interviewed by Robert McQuistan on 24 May 2012, High Auchenlarie. Interviewed: 24 May 2012. Ref: DG2-3-1-2. © European Ethnological Research Centre, 2016. Winnie recalls the domestic duties as a girl on High Auchenlarie…
Fiona Ross, 45 years of age, interviewed by Marylin Pickburn at Wanlockhead. Interviewed: 5 July 2012. Ref: DG21-1-1-2. © European Ethnological Research Centre, 2016. Fiona recalls the hot summers and how the tar on the…
Agnes Murdoch, 76 years of age, interviewed by Kirsty Robertson on 9 September 2012, in Newton Stewart. Interviewed: 9 September 2012. Ref: DG10-11-1-2. © European Ethnological Research Centre, 2016. Agnes Murdoch recalls the sleeping arrangements…
Andre McCrae interviewed by Isabelle Gow on 2 May 2016 at Lochmaben. Interviewed: 2 May 2016. Ref: Acc LCDI May 2016. © European Ethnological Research Centre, 2016. Andre McCrae recalls coming from Manchester to Lochmaben…
Peter Alexander Scott, 45 years of age, interviewed by Androulla Richford on 17 January 2013 at Wanlockhead. Interviewed: 17 January 2013. Ref: DG22/1/1/2. © European Ethnological Research Centre, 2016. Peter recalls the effect of weather…