Falconer Friends Podcasts

An ex Forres Academy School Teacher in his eighties and a local teenager discuss their schooldays and life in Forres in the first of the “Generations” podcasts. This is an enhanced podcast with images.

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In the following podcast, our Project Development Officer – Mark Macleod – is in conversation with Sandy Dow, the Managing Director of William Reid (Forres) Ltd. - a local engineering firm which employed many local people. In the conversation we hear about setting up a company in the 1950s; Board of Trade restrictions, changes in mechanisation and the company expanding from producing portable saw mills to structural engineering and floating pontoons.

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This podcast outlines the teaching career of Miss Rita Taylor, a well loved infant headmistress of Applegrove Primary School. Miss Taylor still lives just across from the school she taught in.

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This podcast tells how Doug Cowie, a local runner, was chosen to be a Torch Bearer in the Olympic Global Relay for the Athens Olympic games.

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An ex Forres Academy School Teacher and son of a farmer, tells about farming life as he was growing up in the early 1900s.

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Former Forres Gazette Editor, David Morgan, tells of a story run in the Gazette and featured in news bulletins about a dog with political opinions.

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Hilda Cumiskie, retired Moray Councillor and Vice Convenor, talks about her love of politics as a young girl and attending stormy political meetings. She also tells some tales of her time as a Moray Councillor.

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