Oldmeldrum reminiscences [compact disc]
Manson, Alexander (Akki)UUUU
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Formartine Partnership 2008.
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1 compact disc (25 min.)
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Formartine Oral History Project ; FP040737
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Interviewed by Val Fowlie on 13/4/07.Summary: Akki talks about childhood games, taking milk to school which was made into cocoa, and how the Meldrum Sports originated from raising funds to buy cocoa for the schoolchildren, in the Picnic and Cocoa Fund. He talks about a thatched house which he saw being re-roofed with slates which was an innovation for the time. He then goes on to talk about his grandfather who was born at Kilblean Farm, which was built in 1827, then mentions his father who fought in World War 1, who read his own obituary! He lost an arm and had plastic surgery from a famous surgeon of the time. Akki talks sadly about the devastation of war on the youth of the community, the 1918 Flu Epidemic which also killed servicemen at the end of the war. Val moves the conversation to shops, how the farmers used bicycles to go out for their groceries, the work of maids on farms, Kilblean's original kitchen and its clay floor, which was replaced by stone slabs specially made for the house. Akki then speaks about winters, food during his childhood, cycling to Pittmedden garden during the war to pick fruit as a part-time job as a child in order to make jam. The end of the interview is Akki talking about the first traffic lights in Aberdeen which he saw as a child, when his father took the family there on a special trip just to see this novelty.
Language:
English
BRN:
497646