Interview with Reene Currie, 21st April 2016
Reene Currie moved with her family to Stobs in 1932 when she was just 2 years old. She grew up on the estate during the interwar and Second World War periods. Her grandparents had also been at the camp during the First World War. Listen here to Reene reminisce about what it was like living at Stobs Camp:
Part 1: “It was quite an organised thing”
Part 2: “There was sometimes 400 horses”
Part 3: “My mother and father were running the YMCA”
Part 4: “My granny used to wash and lay out the bodies”
Part 5: “I remember seeing General Montgomery”
Part 6: “They went out at night and did search light manoeuvres”
Part 7: “I let all the water out of the pool”
Part 8: “The government bought an awful lot of farms”
Part 9: “We knew that somebody we knew had been killed”
Part 10: “The soldiers used to disembark at Acreknowe”
Part 11: “There was one escapee who was never caught”
Part 12: “The huts were auctioned off”
Part 13: “I have fond memories of Stobs Camp”
Part 14: “It was just a sheet of snow”
Part 15: “The soldiers used to look forward to coming to Hawick”
Interviewers: Ian Landles & Andrew Jepson
Transcription: The Hawick Callants Club & Andrew Jepson
Transcripts:
Part 1: Reene Currie transcription – part 1
Part 2: Reene Currie transcription – part 2
Part 3: Reene Currie transcription – part 3
Part 4: Reene Currie transcription – part 4
Part 5: Reene Currie transcription – part 5
Part 6: Reene Currie transcription – part 6
Part 7: Reene Currie transcription – part 7
Part 8: Reene Currie transcription – part 8
Part 9: Reene Currie transcription – part 9
Part 10: Reene Currie transcription – part 10
Part 11: Reene Currie transcription – part 11
Part 12: Reene Currie transcription – part 12
Part 13: Reene Currie transcription – part 13
Part 14: Reene Currie transcription – part 14
Part 15: Reene Currie transcription – part 15