Initial Ideas and Research

Initially we began researching our grandparents daily lives and their lifestyles. We found some very interesting insight from the videos, pictures and stories we collated.

Margaret McArthur and Hugo McArthur







My Grandparents offered some interesting views on their lives, their work and retirement. Although much of what they said was quite irrelevant, they did give me some good insights into their lifes and what they do. They showed me a newspaper article from the 70s that introduced the chain of shops that they used to own around Stirling. However, the shops were sold on later when they retired. When I asked them if they would want to go back to work at all in some way, both of them told me no! They seemed fairly satisfied with retirment. I felt I didn't get much useful information from them whilst rolling the video, however afterwords through phone calls and one to one conversations I found out that they led a quite active lifestyle.