Fishing Traditions in South Ayrshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Fishing Traditions in South Ayrshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/1/034
Creator(s): Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy
Site Location(s): Subject - South Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom( 55.25, -4.8333 ); Subject - Ballantrae, South Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom( 55.0986, -5.00427 ); Subject - Maybole, South Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom( 55.355, -4.68026 )
Date(s): 1974
Size and medium: 181 unbound typed leaves; 22 b/w photographs; 1 map.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409930
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
M.A. dissertation on the fishing industry in South Ayrshire, written in two parts. The first, Fishing Methods and Marketing, has chapters on salmon fishing, creel fishing, line fishing, ring netting, marketing the fish and the state of the fishing industry in 1974. The second part, The Life of the Community, contains chapters on fisherfolk (relationships inside and outside the community), food, dress, income supplements, smuggling, superstition, weatherlore and local knowledge, ceremony and entertainment.
Tape Table of Contents for the audiotapes submitted with the dissertation are included, and the Appendix contains photocopied printed items and transcriptions of texts relating to salmon fishing on the River Ayr, net mending, Seine netting, pair trawling, the fishing industry at Ballantrae, 1908-1913, as remembered by one of the collector's informants, John McGarvie, Carrick tales, as written by another informant, James Dunnachie of Maybole (Ayrshire), poems written by another informant, Roy McCrindle, and a sketch of 1920s Scottish life entitled 'The Kipper Fair and the Cadger Races', written by David Caldwell.
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