Sound Recordings, South Ayrshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, South Ayrshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A284r
Creator(s): Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy
Site Location(s): Subject - Dunure, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom( 55.405, -4.75995 )
Date(s): December 1973
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 92' 59".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414334
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Mungo Munro , recorded at home in Dunure, talks about his fishing career, 1926-1971; deep sea fishing for herring; line fishing; women baiting lines (with mussels, also sand eels) - describes process; discuss creel fishing, fish caught, locations, creels, baits; line fishing stopped at time of World War One; describes lines, baits, hawling in, boats used, crew; occupational folklore (seeing a minister, salt, Mondays, salmon, rabbits); luck and women on boats; launching boats; flags on boats to signal a marriage; whistling for the wind; seaman's clothes, treating leather boots; fishing nets; accommodation (housing); weatherlore - winds, birds, ring around the moon, new moon; entertainment - fiddle playing, song (Scots, shanties); smuggling; selling fish in Ayr; women's dress; working relationship between fishermen and local farmers; duration of fishing trips; money management; names for boats. Recorded 22 December 1973. [Tr. 3]
James McCrindle, recorded at home in Dunure, talks about his fishing career; working from Dunure, mostly line fishing for herring, also big line fishing for cod and skate; describes fishing lines, herring caught; small line fishing for whiting and haddock; collection of mussels for bait; baiting lines by women; baikie box described; drying lines; selling fish; accommodation; cooking; pay; fishing at 14 (started as ship's cook); boat building at Dunure - describes boats and materials used; occupational folklore - no boat launched on a Friday; annual Regatta; other fishing beliefs re. meeting women, ministers on board, not referring to salmon, rabbits whilst on ship (salmon referred to as queer fellows), matches on board - not Swan Vesta, as swans unlucky; weatherlore - weather glass, use of landmarks; net making; technique for using nets; entertainment - fiddlers, dances in village hall; work clothes; treating leather boots. Recorded 23 December 1973. [Tr. 1]
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Physical and technical conditions
Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. Recording level very high. Distortion of informants' voices.
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