| Description | Charles Parker and Ewan MacColl interview Mr and Mrs Robert Burnett of Fraserborough, Scotland about working in the fishing industry as a herring packer.
Track 1: they talk about making barrels, no overtime in the past, large crews coming to Fraserborough, 2.34 mins
Track 2: Mr Burnett talks about making barrels, how many barrels a good cooper could make in a day, girls gutting and packing herring, coopers inspecting the herring packing, 2.44 mins
Track 3: they talk about checking the barrels, Mrs Burnett talks about working gutting herring, 1.18 mins
Track 4: Mrs Burnett talks about prices of herring, and how they've increased, Ewan MacColl asks how many barrels can be packed per day, she says between 35-40, she talks about starting work when she was 14, young people won't work gutting herring, 2.06 mins
Track 5: Mrs Burnett talks about liking working on the herring gutting, especially in Yarmouth, talks about the foremen and coopers, Charles Parker says it seems like hard work, but Mrs Burnett says people get hardened to the job, 2.19 mins
Track 6: they talk about 'having the greed' to work in the herring, earning money and beating your neighbour at the work, talks about living in lodgings while working in Yarmouth, liking the local people in the area, better sanitation than at home, taking their own food for the people in the lodgings to cook, 2.19 mins
Track 7: talks about enjoying the life in Yarmouth when she was young, dances, going to church at the local mission, parties, Halloween parties, apple ducking, having no housework and being free to go out in the evenings, meeting young fishermen, going singing after church, 3.23 mins
Total: 16.46 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0332980 |