Sound Recordings, South Ayrshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, South Ayrshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A286r
Creator(s): Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy
Site Location(s): Subject - Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom( 55.4627, -4.63393 ); Subject - Maidens, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom( 55.3333, -4.81667 )
Date(s): 1974
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 84' 56".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414336
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Tom Sloan, recorded at home in Maidens, talks about his fishing career; mother baiting baikies - small lines - with mussels; big line fishing; drift net fishing; ring net fishing for herring off the Isle of Man (June/July), Hebrides in winter time, Mallaig, Oban - c. 50 years ago; sail boats used; first engined boat in 1908/1909; changes in village; women baiting the lines; selling the fish; fishing from Whitby, Seahouses and Scarborough - fish sold in Hartlepool; occupational folklore - landmarks, weatherlore (moon, north wind); whales, sharks; creel fishing for lobsters; nicknames. Recorded 17 January 1974. [Tr. 1]
Turner McCrindle and Peggy McCrindle, recorded at home in Maidens, talk about fishermen's occupational folklore; beliefs regarding white stone on board, salmon, meeting a minister on the way to work, women on board; describes the fish caught, reduction in quality, need for conservation measures, problems of longer, deeper nets for fish stocks; weatherlore - sayings, north wind, green sky; herring fishing in Ayr bay, quantity caught; salt smuggling, smugglers' coves; Culzean Castle and other buildings in the area; Robert the Bruce; Robert Burns; Maidens' harbour and pier; baiting the lines; local houses; cooking, cleaning; Queen Ann Grant to Fishermen; Robert the Bruce. Recorded 3 January 1974. [Tr. 2]
Recording made in [?Ayr] fish market. Voice of auctioneer audible; collector banter with market workers re. singing; collector accompanied by unidentified male who gives information on the market, destination of fish, Glasgow, Grimsby fish markets. Parts inaudible due to background noise. [Recorded 28 March 1974]. [Tr. 3]
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Physical and technical conditions
Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. High recording level and fast playback speed. Adjusted on AC copy. Some distortion. Collector alludes to microphone/tape machine problems at the start of the second recording.
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