TERRY WIGHTMAN |
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Surname
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Wightman
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Forename
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Terence
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Date of recording
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2013
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Year of birth
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1936
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Place of Birth
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Aldeburgh
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Occupation
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Fisherman
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Fathers occupation
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Garage owner
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Present Address
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Aldeburgh
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Location Interview
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Aldeburgh
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Interviewer
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Alan Cartwright
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Duration
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126 Mins
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No of tracks: 12
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This interview is on 12 tracks
Track 1 Introduction Terry Wightman Track 2 Born Aldeburgh 1936. Family garage business Saxmundham. First illness Anglesea Road hospital Ipswich. WW2 aircraft Parham. Wartime with the Americans. WW2 army base Saxmundham. Plane crashes, Benhall school wartime. Salvaging from plane crashes. Dr. Bell-Jones Anglesea Road hospital 1940. Father in army in North Africa. Bombing in Saxmundham. Meeting POW’s. First interest in fishing. Track 3 Fishing at Orford and Sizewell. Grandfather was a “wheeler dealer”. Westleton Gravel pits. Lived at Bigsby’s Corner, drinking water and childhood toys. Evacuees and expelled from school. Christmas and birthdays, discipline at home. Track 4. Father home from war. Churchill tanks, beliefs. Meeting and marrying his wife. National Service, fishing at Sizewell and Aldeburgh. Track 5 Winter fishing, making gear. Lifeboat, breakfast at the Shipwash lightship fishing in bad weather. Selling fish off Aldeburgh beach. Track 6 Upgraded fishing boat moved to Lowestoft to fish. Fishing restrictions catching fish distance travelled. Change from wooden to steel boats. Beam trawlers. Move to Grimsby to fish. Decline in industry 1980 boats laid up. Fishing area. Windfarm effect on fishing Track 7 Fishing at Lowestoft, sons. Ship built in Iceland. Long lining. Best time in the industry 1970’s. 1953 floods. Clay pigeon shooting. Local people. Surgery on leg. Track 8 Local characters and nicknames. Beach helpers. Trades people. Aldeburgh Guild. Lifeboats and crew. Track 9 As a lifeboat crew member. Rescues crew members, weather conditions. North and south lookouts. Taking Aldeburgh fish to the railway station for market. Landing fish in Grimsby. Track 10 Fishing in Iceland. Fish shops in Yorkshire. Politics in the industry. Gypsy warning. Winter in Aldeburgh. Joan Cragg’s tearooms. Move to Lowestoft to fish 1970. Freddy Wharton’s station corner shop. Grandfather in charge of steam tractors ploughing up park land in Norfolk and Suffolk. First World War. Track 11 Government money to repair war damage. Benhall School during the war. Left school at 15yrs.Liked reading about ships and fishing. Fishing off Hollesley. Dangers of fishing. Track 12 Hook thru finger and hospital. |