Fyvie reminiscences [transcript]
Martin, BrianUUUU
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Formartine Partnership 2008.
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Formartine Oral History Project ; FP050738
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Interviewed by Helen Taylor on 18/5/07.Accompanies CD Bib No 584958.Summary: Brian was born in 1939 at Tunbridge in Kent, but brought up 'all over the place' because his father was a gamekeeper and was also in the Lovat Scouts. His early days moved from Aldershot to Farnborough North, to Dover and then to Shieldaig in Wester Ross. He speaks about his father's background, where he worked, then talks about his own schooldays at various small schools and the interesting walk to and from school at Kinlochrannoch. He talks about his sibilings, his father's employers who were landowners and more about school. Brian worked in merchant shipping for twenty years and talks at length about the different shipping lines he worked for, the characters he met at sea, the ships, navigation, work and food. He also got his mate's and master's tickets in Aberdeen by 1967, which was when he got to like Aberdeen, and ended up working for Shell and ended up offshore as an Assistant Offshore Installation Manager. He talks about the early days of the oil industry with Shell, and how he moved to Fyvie and began working onshore. Now he does lots of voluntary work including the Formartine Partnership, the Ythan Volunteers Project which involved surveying the river and wildlife management; he also became a schools inspector; works with the Woodhead & Windyhills community trust - which Helen runs - they discuss how the Windyhills Wood is popular with the locals. He is also a member of the Formartine Environmental Forum, which does various projects to clean up the countryside. They end the interview by discussing fly-tippers and how it needn't happen.
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English
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644040