Falconer Friends Podcasts

Nursing in early 20th century

This podcast tells of the career of Jean Mortimer, a Friends Member who started her nursing career in the 1950s. The podcast tells of her training in Aberdeen and follows her career from Aberdeen to Glasgow to Shetland and back to Aberdeen again before taking on an important Nursing Administration Post in North East Scotland.

Generations Project - 01

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.

William Reid (Forres) Limited

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.

Rita Taylor - Applegrove Primary School

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.

Olympic Torch Runner

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.

Farming 1900s

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

Political Dog

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.

Stormy Political Meetings

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.