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Nicknames for travellers from different parts of Scotland.

Date August 1954
Track ID 10287
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1954.94.B13

Original Tape ID

SA1954.094

Summary

Nicknames for Travellers from different parts of Scotland.

Perthshire Travellers were known as 'racheries' or 'pork eaters'. They had different ways from the Aberdeenshire Travellers, whom they called 'the breid an milk eaters'.

Recording Location

County - Aberdeenshire

Parish - Aberdeen

Village/Place - Aberdeen

Language

Scots

Genre

Information

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good