MADELINE: "You know that school of dancing that I went to... McEwans... Pearl [her friend] and I went and there was this fellow... we called him the "country type", he looked the country type. Well, he used to come and dance with me every night of the session, 'til the last night. And he picked Pearl up, and he walked her home, and I said to Pearl in the morning, 'You're a fine friend!' Well, she married him - that might have been me! [It's like the] saying, 'looking at the nurse for the sake of the baby'."
MAY: "I went to quite a lot of farmers' dances... that was quadrilles, 'strip the willow'... there were about 8 different sets [of the quadrilles]... I remember I had this net frock with tulle, and truly, it was in bits by the time I got home from getting whisked around... those farmers were wild dancers! It was great fun."
ANNA: "Jim bought me [of the new transistor radios] for my birthday, or something like that. It was as heavy as anything, and we would walk up the glen with this thing! It was a novelty, but it was really heavy."
ANN (pictured, with friends): "Two or three of us used to go to the cinema on a Saturday - we went early so that we could come back to Kath Easton's house to watch 'The Tiller Girls'... there would be [at least] a dozen of us [in the house]! My mother held out against [getting a television] for years and years, she wouldn't let us get a television set... until the World Cup football was coming on [around the late 1950s]. My brother and my father were going to other people's houses to watch the World Cup, and she thought that was a bit off!"
Created by
Paula Cuccurullo and Howard
Mitchell
Updated 1 September 1999
© 1999 WEA Scotland
