Community Voices: Cullen

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Younger speakers

Luke: Honestly, first year fitba', I'm lanky, I'm slow. I was top scorer just 'cause he was in the team. He used to fire ba's over. That was the days, that. First year footba', back me up.
Cameron: Fann we were 12, [name], come on.
Luke: Back me up, [name], they were good.
Interviewer: You were a good-- eh, a good team. A good, good team we had--
Cameron: We was, was we?
Luke: Aye.
Cameron: We won the-- won the cup and the league that year and then everyone quit.
Luke: Abody quit, aye.
Cameron: We won the league and the cup and then everyone was like "right, that's it, done."
Interviewer: Fitt, they quit when-- they quit on a high?
Cameron: Aye.
Luke: Quit on a high.

Older speakers

Liz: Underneath farr the shows go it used to be just big-- that's farr all the, eh-- fitt do you ca' it?
Davey: It-- it-- it-- the-- well fann we were bairns all-- under the viaducts there was just empty, it was just a big hollow, just a grassy hollow. And then, eh, fann they-- they-- they took awa' a' the cement blocks fitt the links had up it was for during the time of the war, it was supposed to
Liz: Stop Hitler coming, this big cement block, the Germans coming.
Davey: stop-- stop the Germans. They'd all this cement blocks but they-- they were starting to tumble over onto the beach but I na ken why they just didna let them all tumble over, it would've helped for a barrier. Anyway, they lifted them and took them over and that's what the car park's built on noo,
Liz: So it's level noo but it used to be a
Davey: is that--
Liz: big hollow.
Interviewer: Okay, so the-- so the car park was a' hollow? Aye, aye.
Liz: Hollow, aye.
Interviewer: Just a' part of it as well.
Davey: Aye, aye and they put in-- they put in all that, eh, cement blocks, eh, in there and then filled it in on top of it with-- aye.
Liz: Your dad, he was jumping off of some of them, that's fann it was your arm or your leg that you broke?
Davey: Aye, I crackit a bane in my arm, aye.