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Childhood in Pulteneytown

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Sutherland Clyne reflects upon his childhood days growing up in Pulteneytown. He talks about fishing, selling fish, cycling and swimming in the Trinkie. Sutherland Clyne was born in Lybster on November 27th 1906 and lived most of his life in Wick, where his parents were involved in the fishing industry. In 1996, by then living in Christchurch, New Zealand, he contributed a series of six articles to the John O'Groat Journal based on his childhood reminiscences. In these recordings Harry Gray (born 1937) reads the stories published in 1996.

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Sutherland ClyneBorn in 1906

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