| Description | Charles Parker interviews Alec, a herring packer from Yarmouth who used to work as a cooper:
Track 1: Charles Parker interviews a unnamed man who works curing and packing herring; talks to a man called Alec who works packing herring, 3.09 mins
Track 2: Charles Parker arranges to call on Alec, 0.31 mins
Track 3: Alec talks about the different classes of herring: the best herring; the Yarmouth herring, the red herring; the silver herring, 1.43 mins
Track 4: talks about taking pride in his work, his pay, ten pounds a week for 44 hours, overtime and bonuses, he used to be a cooper but there's no demand for it, 1.47 mins
Track 5: the satisfaction of handling the material when making barrels, other kinds of fish, 1.51 mins
Track 6: talks about his family's involvement in the fishing business, fishing is a healthy trade, describes how packing used to be before mechanisation, it's not as satisfying now, 2.22 mins
Track 7: talks about the best way to eat herrings, 2.13 mins
Interview, possibly with Alec, possibly with another person - the sound levels on this recording are slightly higher:
Track 8: a unnamed man talks about herring spawning, 1.07 mins
Track 9: he talks about the herring not coming down to Yarmouth and the ports on the east coast of Scotland, the decline of the fishing fleet in Yarmouth, 1.54 mins
Total: 16.41 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0332580 |