Dolly Ferries interviewed by Kirsty Robertson in Newton Stewart, October 2012. Dolly recalls the coming and going of personnel from Baldoon Airfield during WWII before going on to recall being disapproved of drinking a little…
Robin Kinnear interviewed by Julia Muir Watt in Port William, August 2012. Robin recalls the clothing worn at funerals and how made-to-measure clothing could be quickly obtained. Robin also recalls how services used to be…
John Wilson interviewed by Julia Muir Watt in Whithorm, July 2012. John recalls how funeral services used to be in the 1950s and how the role of the rural joiner used to encompass that…
Robert Ross, 71 years of age interviewed by Robert McQuistan about his work at Kirkmabreck quarry, Creetown Kirkmabreck quarry, run by the Liverpool Dock Trustees, was a source of high quality granite used extensively…
John Armstrong, 72 years of age, interviewed by Mairi Telfrod Jammeh at the peat hags on Middlemoss on the Langholm to Newcastleton Road. John worked as a herd (shepherd) for 46 years. Interviewed: 24…
Irene Brown, 84 years of age, interviewed at St John’s Town of Dalry by Donald Tait. Irene worked across Dumfries and Galloway and for a period in Lothian and the Borders as a Milk Tester…
Mr Jim Wallace, interviewed in Stranraer by Nancy McLucas. Interviewed: 18 February 2013. Tape 35. © European Ethnological Research Centre & Stranraer and District Local History Trust. Mr Wallace recounts to Nancy McLucas of the…
David Brown, 81 years of age, interviewed in Stranraer by his daughter Julia Macdonald. Mr Brown was Telegram Boy in and around Stranraer during WWII. Interviewed: July 2012. Ref: DG7/1/1/2. © Photo: Julia MacDonald. ©…
Telegraph: Mrs Isobel Friell and Mr William Friell, each 92 years of age, interviewed in Langholm by their niece Mairi Telford Jammeh. Mr and Mrs Friell are native residents of Langholm. Interviewed: May 2012. Ref:…