Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Description

Two males, recorded in Filey in 1962 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A563r. Date when this copy tape made not known]; in conversation about Filey - changes in transport provisions, local preacher, cobles (boats), local food, community spirit; talk of local families; Filey fishwives; Filey dialect and changes after World War One (influences); mischief as children; the Oddfellows' Society - procession and festivities; Anniversary Sunday (Sunday School). [Tr. 2] Male, recorded in Filey; talks about the Filey fishing fleet and fishermen; steam trawlers at Scarborough manned by Filey fishermen; decline in the Scarborough fishing industry; going to sea; fishing out of Great Yarmouth after World War One; extent of his fishing (Shetland, Aberdeen); changes in travel; decline of other fishing communities; describes women carrying fishing lines; changes in the herring industry after the [?Second] war, decline in exports; Grimsby - traders and supplies for the maintenance of boats; smacks; halibut; unloading a catch; smacks sailing to Iceland; fishing methods; Grimsby harbour; launching cobles; boat names; lifeboats; changing land use in and around Filey; woodland, gamekeepers, changes to the beach, the coble pier. Male continues with recollections of fishing off Scarborough, the loss of boats at Filey during storms, other losses and accidents at sea; retired fishermen collecting/trading coal; launching boats; food and baking days. [Tr. 3] Male [start of recording made outside, in Filey] talks about his father's work; reference to Parish Relief and quality of town life; the Depression of the 1930s; farming during the post-World War One period; the decline of the local mining industry, offers of work elsewhere in the country; trades unions; career as farm foreman, farm work, fighting with the Lancers during the Boer War; traction engine driver and ship's stoker; work on the Canadian railways; engine driving in England and loads carried (bricks); dialect related anecdotes; describes making ?cart wheels - techniques and terminology. [Tr. 4] 6 of 10.

Metadata

Identifier jd64c4xt
IRN 414615
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A564r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/jd64c4xt
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Widdowson, John D A
Date [Mid-1960s]
Size and Medium 1 x 14.6cm open reel spool, Duration: 92' 19".

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