Ena Munro was brought in the Fort William area and came to Edinburgh in 1949 aged 18 years to train at Leith Hospital as a nurse. She talks about the hospitals in Edinburgh at the time, a year as a midwife at Elsie Ingles and nursing in the community. She returned to Leith Hospital in the early 1950s to work as a staff nurse on a surgical ward. She remained here until her retirement in the mid 1980s. Fascinating stories of an army trained matron at Leith Hospital, home births at Greenside and cooking boiled eggs on the ward for the patients' tea. Its always good to be reminded of how precious and important our Health Service is and how it is such an important part of our lives.

Audrey Soutar was born in 1933. She lived for many years in her family home on Leith Walk. In this interview she takes us through paying for the doctor, home remedies, her time working as a dental nurse and at a herbalist. From having croup as a baby, to witnessing total teeth extraction at the dentist and the drunken results of making fortified wine at the herbalist. A vivid collection of memories from the 1940s and 1950s in Edinburgh and Leith.

Arthur and Pat met learning to dance at the Edina Dance School. They immediately click as dance partners with a mutual love of the new phenomenon Rock and Roll. They went from demonstrating this new dance craze to competitions- they were the 5th best in Britain in The nationwide Palais de Danse contest of 1957. The even appeared dancing on STV. This interview was done the week of their 60th wedding anniversay, they arte still hitting the dance floor at 80 and 87 years old.  

Henryk's escape from Nazi occupied Poland, across Europe to Britain, in his own words.