Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/17/4/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date15 January 1960
DescriptionCharles Parker and Peggy Seeger interview two women from Gardenstown, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Track 1: Mrs Wise talks about an accident suffered by her husband during the Second World War, not many boats lost from Gardenstown, but fifty boats lost from Fraserborough, 3.28 mins
Track 2: talks about storms coming up fast, social life in Gardenstown, electricity coming to Gardenstown in 1950, sea net fishing and herring fishing, 3.52 mins
Track 3: talks about the different places where the boats go to fish through the year, mending the nets, 3.21 mins
Track 4: talks about development and prosperity in the town, the lack of social life in the village outside the Kirk, the Burns Night party held in the village the night before, 2.53 mins
Track 5: talks about religion in the village, the power of the old minister, the men must go to sea, prosperity in the village, women's work in the village, line fishing, 3.27 mins

Total: 17.02 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0335180
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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