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Ronald Johnston in conversation with Owen and Margaret Lilly (A19), 1 March 1999. An alternative date is given for the recording, 1 February 1999.

• sound recording (0h 43m 14s) and transcript

Owen Lilly was an asbestos factory worker.

Tape 202. Consent form A19, not previously coded.

Conversation between R Johnston and a male asbestos sprayer b.1948, 11 March 1999.

• transcript

Consent form A10, formerly coded A31.

The participant had worked with asbestos 22 years earlier, when he laboured to laggers and to sprayers.

Conversation between R Johnston and a 56 year-old retired insulation engineer, 15 March 1999.

• transcript

Consent form A16, formerly coded A29.

The participant had worked with asbestos since he left school and was suffering from bilateral pleural thickening.

Conversation between R Johnston and a 65 year-old electrician, 15 March 1999.

• transcript

Consent form A13, formerly coded A89.

The participant had worked as foreman in large number of jobs in Clydeside.

Conversation between R Johnston and a 69 year-old retired insurance agent, 17 March 1999.

• transcript

Consent form A15, formerly coded A40.

The participant had worked as an engineer in the Ailsa shipyard in Troon in the late 40s and early 50s, where he was heavily exposed to asbestos.

Conversation between R Johnston and the 66 year-old widow of an electrical engineer who had recently died of mesothelioma, 22 March 1999.

• transcript

Consent form A20, formerly coded B1.

The participant's husband was exposed to asbestos in the 1950s while working on a demolition contract. Interview also contains interesting testimony regarding her overseas’ work experience.

Conversation between R Johnston and a male marine engineer b.1940, 25 January 1999.

• sound recording (0h 31m 21s) and transcript

Tape 196. Consent form A12, formerly coded A26.

Conversation between R Johnston and a male sheet metal worker b.1928, 1 February 1999.

• sound recording (0h 43m 30s) and transcript

Tape 198. Consent form A09, formerly coded A44.

Conversation between R Johnston and a 58 year-old retired civil servant, 18 March 1999.

• transcript

Consent form A07, formerly coded A71.

The participant had worked in brickworks in the late 1950s. He was diagnosed as suffering from asbestosis, caused (he thinks) by presence of asbestos in an office.

Ronald Johnston in conversation with a male joiner b.1945, 20 or 22 January 1999.

• sound recording (0h 31m 10s) and transcript

Tape 194. Consent form A17, formerly also coded A17.

Conversation between R Johnston and a male fitter b.1924, 25 January 1999.

• sound recording (0h 22m 15s) and transcript

Tape 195. Consent form A05, formerly coded A80.

Conversation between R Johnston and a male shipyard rigger b.1922, 3 February 1999.

• sound recording (0h 29m 23s) and transcript

Tape 199. Consent form A18, formerly coded A24.

Conversation between R Johnston and a male boilerplate maker b.1927, 23 February 1999 (or possibly 25 January 1999).

• sound recording (0h 56m 42s) and transcript

Tape 201. Consent form A03, formerly coded A5.

Conversation between R Johnston and a former lorry driver b.1946, 23 March 1999.

• transcript

Consent form A04, formerly coded A94.

Conversation between between R Johnston, A McIvor, an 81-year old insulation engineer, and a 72-year old lagger who worked at the Grangemouth shipyard. T&G office, Glasgow, 1 December 1999.

• transcript

Consent form A23, formerly coded B9.

This appears to be a continuation of the previous interview - same participants?