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Going to the Berries - Voices of Perthshire and Angus Seasonal Workers (Paperback)
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Going to the Berries - Voices of Perthshire and Angus Seasonal Workers (Paperback)
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Pickers come from near and far, year after year, for the
berry-picking season, and from a variety of backgrounds. In the
20th century, for local people, both adults and children, it was an
opportunity to supplement the family income; Glasgow folk combined
it with a holiday. For the Scottish Traveller community it was an
annual opportunity to meet up with friends and family, and forge
new relationships. Roger Leitch encouraged many of those berry
pickers to share their (mostly happy) recollections for this book -
which is published at a time of political change with challenges
for the soft fruit cultivation business. He also interviewed
workers in other seasonal employments: potato picking; working with
crops: hay/bracken/reed/flax cutting and sugar-beet lifting;
fencing; repairing drystone dykes; being a deer ghillie or a river
ghillie or water bailiff; salmon fishing.
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