| Description | Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger, and Ewan MacColl interview Ronnie Balls and Sam Larner, fishermen from Norfolk, England
Track 1: Ronnie Balls talks about liking to do a job himself, taking a job at Tobermory when the War ended, 2.00 mins
Track 2: talks about the government grant and loans scheme for buying boats, today it's not possible for a single skipper to earn money from fishing, 2.49 mins
Track 3: talks about the little man being finished in English fishing; in Scotland there's no place for the shore owner, there are not enough fishermen in Yarmouth to increase the drifter fleet, young men aren't going into fishing, talks about the change from steam to diesel, 2.59 mins
Track 4: talks about getting his first diesel boat, getting used to the noise of the diesel boat after the quiet of steam, explains why he likes the drifters better than diesel, 2.00 mins
Track 5: talks about drifters, compares drifters with motor boats, 2.51 mins
Track 6: explains that the price of diesel makes motor boats more economical than steam drifters, they discuss the impact of new technology such as echometers and radar, 3.30 mins
Tracks 7-10: talks about first using the echometer in 1933 to look for herring and mistaking a pile of ashes dumped by the ship's fireman for fish, describes other voyages looking for herring.
Track 11: talks about trawlers relying on echometers, ships coming back into port if the echometers break, 2.37 mins
Track 12: talk about the design of modern trawlers, explains why he thinks the the design of the old steam drifter was nearly perfect, explains that the herring fisherman's life is as safe and as hard as it always was, 3.31 mins
Track 13: Sam Larner sings a song beginning 'As I lay down musing on my bed one night', 1.24 mins
Track 14: Sam Larner sings a song beginning 'Oh 'twas a cold bitter night' with chorus 'Oh Kitty mavourneen', 2.10 mins
Track 15: Sam Larner sings part of 'I was dreaming of my own heart's delight' and tells the story of the rest of the song because he can't remember the words, 1.39 mins
Track 16: Sam Larner sings part of 'I was dreaming of my own heart's delight', 0.27 mins
Track 17: Sam Larner sings part of a song about a sailor, 0.43 mins
Track 18: Sam Larner sings part of 'The Dark-Eyed Sailor', 1.13 mins
Track 19: Sam Larner sings part of 'The Dark-Eyed Sailor', 2.01 mins
Track 20: Sam Larner talks about other songs he used to sing and stories from his village, 1.42 mins
Track 21: Sam Larner talks about sailors dancing when they come back from sea, hardships when he was young, 1.30 mins
Track 22: Sam Larner talks about the sailors on his ship putting soot on his face while he was asleep for a joke, 1.16 mins
Track 23: Charles Parker interviews a young man who works mending nets, 1.41 mins
Total: 48.25 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D1041080 |