Sound Recording, Ayrshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, Ayrshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A283r
Creator(s): Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy
Site Location(s): Subject - Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom( 55.4627, -4.63393 ); Subject - Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom( 55.2426, -4.85551 )
Date(s): December 1973
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 89' 18".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414333
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
James McCrindle, recorded at home in Ayr, talks about his career as a fisherman; the type of fish caught; fishing grounds; starting in 1923; describes a fishing boat, sailing as a schoolboy, the crew, boat names, boat construction, names for parts of boats [collector referring to the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies fishing questionnaire, based on Peter Wright's original. See LAVC/STA/3/1]; occupational folklore re. luck - avoiding chimney sweeps, women, not sailing on a Friday, touching cold iron; relates story of seeing a ? at sea; talks about ring nets to catch herring; other fishing methods (mid-water trawl); work clothes; drownings at sea; creel fishing for lobsters; recites part of song on fishing in Campbeltown; salmon fishing; line fishing for cod, eel and haddock on the Clyde River; naming boats [shows photographs]; changes - sail to diesel; recites poem written by himself; tells story re. Bobby Ingram; tells humorous anecdotes.
Talk of the seventh wave (curler), used for coming into Girvan harbour; reference to net making and boat builder's yard; occupational folklore re. salmon, pigs, ministers, sweeps, women and bad luck; work as minesweeper in the Arctic Convoy (World War Two); initiation ceremony for a young fisherboy; discuss photographs of the informant at work; talk of smuggling whisky. Recorded 20 December 1973. [Tr. 1]
John Geddes, Harbour Master at Girvan, recorded in his office, talks about his career as a fisherman; starting as ship's cook; herring fishing; fishing grounds pre-World War Two; using ring nets off the east coast of Scotland; another informant, [? Alec Ingram], talks about creel fishing at this point; number of boats fishing; fishing grounds; prawn fishing on the Clyde River; beliefs re. good and bad luck - sweeps, rabbits, women, Friday 13th, ministers; weatherlore; net mending (women). Mr. Dodd and the local policeman also present. Collector announcement. Recorded 21 December 1973. [Tr. 2]
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Physical and technical conditions
Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. Tape recorder motor/spindle audible throughout.
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