Mrs Mathieson: That was the window of my bedroom. Now you see this roof it is interesting .We used to climb up and eat rhubarb dipped in sugar. And I got a shovel out of my mothers shed. And this was my bedroom.

Reece- was the library here?

Mrs Mathieson- No there was no library. You just got a box of books. A hundred books, once a month. That was one of my jobs. I had to count the books. There was quite a big Carnegie Library within the school.

Laura-Was this just fields ?

Mrs Mathieson -Yes there was a lot of fields. We had a school picnic every year in this field. We drank tea -there was no coke and we got a paper bag with four or five buns in it. The school picnic was very exciting. I can remember Italian prisoners of war here. That was my parents' bedroom up there. See this light house -that was a wash house and the toolshed combined. That was the farm yard. Up on the hill at Whitehills we had a searchlight battery. There were twelve soldiers there. You could watch the searchlight moving in the sky. Eleven soldiers came to dance but the siren went so they had to rush back to the searchlight and put it on. There was a hay stack farm over there. How old were you when you moved away?

Mrs Mathieson - and that's sixty years ago. When I moved away I was just about to get married. We had lots of fun in Cove. It had a lovely station with a chocolate machine.