[00:03:25] Gower / Rabbits and ferrets: When bitten by a ferret. What to do. [00:04:25] Gower / Rabbits and ferrets: Keeping a ferret in a box. [00:05:40] Gower / Rabbits and ferrets: Rabbiting by night, ferreting nets, eating Rabbit. [00:06:30] Gower / Rabbits and ferrets: Fishing at Horton, droy nets, Port Eynon wier, mackerel. [00:08:20] Gower / Rabbits and ferrets: Grandfather was from Rhossili, born circa 1850, was mason by trade, lime stone, men working the quarry, women would load the boats by night. [00:09:03] Gower / Rabbits and ferrets: Baking bread in a brick oven, taking potatoes by horse to Swansea. [00:00:03] Gower / Rabbits and ferrets: Six pence for a rabbit, catching rabbits. [00:00:54] Gower / Rabbits and ferrets: Ferreting, catching with home made nets, catching techniques.
Oral History collection: George Tucker (born 1894, Horton, Gower, agricultural labourer and quarryman) interviewed by W. B. (Bill) Curran about Rabbit-catching and ferrets
This material is held atWest Glamorgan Archive Service
- Reference
- GB 216 T 24/5
- Dates of Creation
- early 1980s
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- on reel-to-reel tape; also digital copy in MP3 format