Collieston reminiscences [transcript]
Ross, IreneUUUU
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Formartine Partnership 2008.
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Formartine Oral History Project ; FP100772
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Interviewed by John Allan on 7/10/07.Transcript for compact disc Bib ID No 585244.Summary: Irene was born 25 October 1929 in Hightown, Collieston. Her father was George Ross and her mother, Margaret Main. She begins by talking about how her parents met through her dad driving buses with his cousin Ally Cruickshank. Her mother was a widow when they met. Irene then talks about her father's bus service, the things they transported and the characters who travelled on the buses. She then talks about how her father tried to get a house in Collieston after he was married, and the one he bought at Hightown, then moving to Newburgh, her schooldays in Collieston and Newburgh, then going to the Aberdeen School of Domestic Science in King St., to do a pre-nursing course before she started her nursing training at the age of 18 at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. She talks about her training, working in Glasgow, in maternity, and how she sometimes got to cases on a motorbike.
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English
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637274