| The Penny Hing
Ian Sandison recalls a particularly seedy dive in
Aberdeen's Constitution Street, near where he and his wife rented rooms
during early married life (from FP090609). |
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| Things Is Nae the Same
An excellent poem written and performed by
Collieston's John Robertson, recalling the demise of the fisher
community in this tiny NE coastal village (from FP100748) |
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| Tea at the Beach
Methlick Heritage Society's Lesley recalls her dad
bringing the children tea at Blackdog rock on Balmedie Beach (from
practice minidisks) |
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| Pipe Band Palaver!
Syd Ross, a former member of the Meldrum Pipe Band
recalls a funny story about the band coming home from a gig involving
his pals Bill Greig and Alick Gray. This a particularly poignant
memory as Bill passed away just before we launched the project. (from
FP070756) |
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| Radio Scotland Promotes the Archive
Recorded 15 April 2008 as part of Radio Scotland's NE
bulletin; Jim Murray promotes the launch of the archive with a pot-pourri
of these clips! (from Radio Scotland) |
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| Cliff Rescue
George Ross narrates the exciting story of the
cliff top rescue he was involved in as a young lad at Hackley Bay, nr
Collieston, Aberdeenshire, January 1942 (from FP080744) George now lives
in Dunblane |
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| TB Scare
Ian Sandison, Strichen's finest export remembers what
happened when he had a TB scare in the early 1950s. (from FP090609). |
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| A Ghost at the Farm
Jill Delday of New Deer tells of why Bella, their ghost, haunts
the farmhouse (from FP010720) |
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| Sarah's German Jamboree
Sarah Clark, a member of the Turriff Guides tells of
her experience in being selected to attend a huge camp of Guides and
Scouts from everywhere in the world! (from FP010720) |
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| The Minister
The Kirk may have been the centre of country life,
but the minister could turn up at the most inopportune moments! Pam
Ledingham of Ellon Library Reminiscence Group gives us her take on it
with a self-penned poem (from FP070608) |
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| Nicky Tams - the bothy ballad
Russell Taylor of Ellon sings this most weel-kent of
bothy songs (from FP060740) |
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| The Kitchie Deem and the Broth
Louis Cameron of Turriff couldn't quite decide
whether it was the soup or the girl that most stood out in his memory of
life on the farm! (from FP020605) |
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| Dangers of Soutering
Douglas Paterson from Gamrie, whose family later
moved to Turriff, recalls the days when Health & Safety
didn't exist for young shoemaker apprentices! (from FP030729) |
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| A Big Delivery
Nurse Mary Webster did some maternity call-outs in
the weirdest places - here's what happened when she delivered a
travelling woman's bairn on the floor of the barn at Fisherford Farm,
Aberdeenshire (from FP030606) Born in 1908, Mary is our oldest
interviewee. |
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| Cushie-doos
John Barron's dad had a gun licence for vermin as a
farmer, but it sounds like he shot anything that moved or flew!! Listen
in to find out what a Cushie-Doo is, if you aren't acquainted with this
Doric word! John is also a Turriff interviewee (from FP030731) |
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| A Garioch Hill For a Formartine
Quine Kathleen Noble of Woodhead, Fyvie,
recites this poem celebrating Bennachie, Aberdeenshire's highest local
hill, at 1700+ feet. Bennachie is in the area called the Garioch -
(pronounced Geeree), but we're in Formartine, hence the title! (from
FP100610) Kathleen is the paternal aunt of Fyvie/Woodhead interviewer,
Helen Taylor |
