Friends of The Falconer Museum

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Oral History Project

The Friends' are embarking on a new exciting project to store a digital record of Forresians’ memories to give future generations an idea of what life was like in the Royal Burgh in the 20th Century.

People will be able to listen to some of the recordings on this website in the near future and will be able to access all the interviews at the Falconer Museum later this year.

We would be delighted to hear from any local person willing interviewed as part of the project. if you are interested please e-mail our secretary from here.

Click on the icons below to hear some samples or right click and select "save target as.." to save to your computer:

You can now access some of the oral history files via podcasts.

There are two ways to listen to these podcasts:

If you have iTunes installed you can go straight to this podcast in the iTunes podcast directory.
If you use other podcasting software, this is the url you'll need to subscribe

	Political Dog Memories of the dog who loved politics David Morgan - newspaper editor (3.31Mb)		Kinloss April Fool Memories of a new runway over Findhorn Bay David Morgan - newspaper editor (1.94Mb)
	Old Style Global Warming Memories of hot summers and cold winters Gordon Macdonald (2.09Mb)		Temperence Society Memories of visits from the Temperence Society Gordon Macdonald (1.09Mb)
	Applegrove Primary School Memories of Forres Primary School from Miss Rita Taylor - Headmistress (968kb)		Steam Engine Memories of a steam engine Rita Taylor (891kb)
	Baillie's Bridge Memories of the boatman at Broom of Moy Rita Taylor (587kb)		Playing in The Mosset 2 Raft sailing in the Mosset Burn which runs through Forres. Chris Bridgeford (542kb)
	Political Meetings Memories of political meetings Hilda Cumiskie (968kb)		German Invasion! Memories of an invasion scare in 1941 Hilda Cumiskie (2.4Mb)
	Old Forres Academy - Kettle Memories of old Forres Academy disrepair Peggie Gordon (295kb)		Old Forres Academy - Gymnasium Memories of old Forres Academy disrepair Peggie Gordon (195kb)
	Old Forres Academy - First Meal Memories of old Forres Academy Peggie Gordon (345kb)		Old Forres Academy - Elephants Memories of old Forres Academy Peggie Gordon (396kb)