Caitlyn: Do you have any special memories of your time with the evacuees?

Mr Jamieson: I have very happy memories of the times we shared. The boys became my greatest friends - just like brothers. And this has lasted all my life. They were very, very nice boys, great boys, absolutely. And I had no brothers or sisters so they were actually - and they called me their brother. When the children came, they were never treated any differently to me. As I said before, we all got the same clothes and we were very smart, always. We had to walk to school. They were very scared of all the chickens, and the hens and everything and I had to show them, for as little as I was, I had to show them how to collect eggs and how to put their hand underneath the chicken to get the egg and sometimes the hen used to turn round and peck a little bit. We also had to catch rabbits. This was the war effort and the fur from the rabbits was used for the pilots for flying planes, and the meat was actually used for the armed forces and I think I got paid about 2½p a rabbit and that was put past for us because we wanted a pony and my Dad said, "If you need a pony then," he said, "you'll have to buy it." "But I have no money." So he said, "I will show you how to earn money," and that money was put past and then eventually we all got a pony on the farm.

Ewan: How long did they stay? How did you feel when they left?

Mr Jamieson: Well, they stayed with us for six years. At that time, children left school at fifteen years. At the end of the war years both boys decided to remain with my parents, although they kept in close contact with their parents in Glasgow. They stayed on, then they went to Aberdeen to train as engineers in a company called John M. Henderson's in King Street. And I followed and I became an engineer with them. So we were all engineers together and Jim, the eldest one, ended up teaching at the university and Peter, his younger brother, went into the National Service in the army, which we had to do when we were called up, and then he went to Canada as an engineer and stayed in Canada and I have never seen him for maybe forty-five years, I've never seen him. Unfortunately, Jim died three years ago, but he did very well. He became a Colonel in the Territorial Army and was awarded the O.B.E. by the Queen for his services to the Territorial Army. So I travelled all over the world in engineering - I still do. It was a good life and a very happy life, but we gave a lot of respect to our parents, well to my Mum and Dad basically. They kept in touch all these years.

Caitlyn: Do you have anything else to show us?

Mr Jamieson: Yes, I have. I've got a display of ration books, identity cards, clothing books and the National Insurance schemes, which came into force later on after the war.

Ewan: Thank you very much for coming and I hope to see you again.

Mr Jamieson: And thank you very much for having me and I hope your project goes very, very well.