Mrs McPhee-Mrs Mathieson will show you. That's the garden of her house. It is just next to the school-Where the park is just now. I don't know what it's called.

Samantha- Catto Park

Mrs.Mathieson- because the Cattos had the farm there .

Mrs McPhee- Right so that's called Catto park then and that's her dad talking over the wall to someone.

Mrs Mathieson-The postie.

Mrs McPhee-Oh the postie- he lives in the house where Mrs Phelan lives now.

Samantha-Beside Burnbutts.

Mrs McPhee-No not that one Mrs Phelan moved to the cottage just before you go over the bridge. That's where the postie used to live yes so that hasn't changed. It looks the same they call it the annexe but that is the school.

Mrs Mathieson- That is just a photo of a hill.

Mrs McPhee-Oh and there you go -that is the way to the harbour.

(St Mary's Church)

Samantha - How old were you when you came to this church?

Mrs Mathieson-ten probably

Mrs McPhee-How many people would have gone to this church?

Mrs Mathieson-Quite a lot. I couldn't tell you how many. .Mr Cruckshank and Mr Sims were the two gentlemen. They weren't preachers as such. Mr Cruckshank was a lawyer in Aberdeen. Mr Sims was a fruit merchant I remember them well because we had tea at the school house.

Mrs McPhee- so there was a Sunday school here. Did all the children go to Sunday school ?

Mrs Mathieson- Yes a lot of the children went. There is Catto farm over there. That house wasn't there. There's the wood running up to the farm.

Mrs McPhee- So there was a farm. Did people get milk there?

MrsMathieson- No they got milk from Strachans. It was just up the road.

MrsMcPhee-So that was where they got the milk from?

Nicola- Were any of these houses built when you were living here?

Mrs Mathieson- Quite a few over there were here then. One was a shop. It sold everything that shop.

Mrs McPhee- You didn't go to Aberdeen for things?

Mrs Mathieson- That's right and it was a Mr Mathieson who had the shop.

(In the old schoolhouse)

Mrs Mathieson- Yes this would be the front of the house.

Mrs McPhee -That was a big garden with fruit trees.

Mrs Mathieson-This used to be a sports room. Miss Wishart and Miss Watson taught through there and this was the room for the coats. The toilets used to be out side. This used to be my house. This would be the part that was my house and there was a new house built across the road and our front door was just about here.

Michael- Did it have many rooms?

Mrs Mathieson-The house had a dining room, sitting room and the kitchen. I will show the kitchen in a minute. Up stairs is a bathroom and two bedrooms and a porch. That was the window of my bedroom. This is where we sheltered in the air raids. But then somebody pointed out to my father that we were kind of crazy to be going into a boiler house when the bombs were falling as the boiler could explode. I remember a real battle going on just across there with the beaufighters chasing the German planes and they dropped their bombs further along where the new houses are. I remember the night the bombs fell and the beaufighters were hitting our house. We were frightened. Somebody asked me if we were excited and I said oh no, we were very frightened.

Mrs McPhee-So was that at the beginning of the war?

Mrs Mathieson-No that was well into the war. That was probably 1943.

Were you scared when your dad told you there was a war coming?

Mrs Mathieson-Well we actually knew. I was actually in France when war was declared. I got home the morning war broke out but I was well aware that war was coming. Because when we were in France we were ordered out of it.