Audio recording of an interview with Archie MacLellan, Morar, in July 1998. Subjects mentioned: grandfather was a crofter-fisherman working out of Mallaig in 19th century; herring trading between Netherlands and West Coast of Scotland; drift net fishing; drownings; fishermen working on the railway; last sailing and steam drifters to visit Mallaig; the Mallaig herring boom; fish transport by train; kipper houses in Mallaig; development of the village; the Point; relations between incomers and locals; family connection with Fraserburgh; line fishing for whitefish; superstitions of fishermen Copied from the West Highland Museum oral history archive. Length: 35 mins Fully transcribed Interviewer: Jill de Fresnes

Year made: 1998

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