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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.

Johnston, Ronald James, b. c. 1960, oral historian, researcher, writer

Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston in conversation with a couple (*B26), 6 February 2000.

  • sound recording (0h 37m 43s) and transcript

Tape 204. No code was found for this interview; the ID "*B26" has been randomly assigned by the Archives Service.

Johnston, Ronald James, b. c. 1960, oral historian, researcher, writer

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.

Johnston, Ronald James, b. c. 1960, oral historian, researcher, writer

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.

Johnston, Ronald James, b. c. 1960, oral historian, researcher, writer

Conversation between R Johnston and *B47, 22 February 2000.

  • sound recording (0h 18m 10s), no transcript

Tape 205. No code was found for this interview; the ID "*B47" has been randomly assigned by the Archives Service. Even after qualitative enhancement was sound quality found to be too poor for transcription.

Johnston, Ronald James, b. c. 1960, oral historian, researcher, writer

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?

Johnston, Ronald James, b. c. 1960, oral historian, researcher, writer