That would be about the time of my second trip to The Broads. For my first I was still in a cot – and no doubt my often-anxious mother must have been having kittens by the score…
Tag: film
Fishermen, 1959
Fishermen, 1959, with music by Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger and co. Essential viewing, I’d say. My thanks to Chris Brady for spotting this one.
‘With their nets and cable winches, their boxes and their creels. They’re the lads that bring the harvest into Shields.” An epic in miniature set into sea-faring song by radical folk musicians Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, fishermen aboard the Ben Torc diesel trawler battle rain and sleet squalls and black nights on the North Sea, risking their lives for little reward to bring home the fresh catch to market in North Shields.’