{"id":276,"date":"2014-12-09T19:29:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T19:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petercookie.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2014-12-09T19:29:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T19:29:54","slug":"andrew-poleson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/09\/andrew-poleson\/","title":{"rendered":"Poleson, Andrew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsayans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/A.Poleson-portrait.jpg\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsayans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/A.Poleson-portrait.jpg\" data-thumb=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsayans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/A.Poleson-portrait-200x300.jpg\" class=\"ml-lightbox-enabled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-876 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsayans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/A.Poleson-portrait-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"A.Poleson portrait\" width=\"248\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsayans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/A.Poleson-portrait.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Andrew <\/strong>was born in 1901 but still had an excellent strong voice when I met him first in 1971 and he was respected as a very fine traditional fiddle player and a stalwart of the church choir. Sea sickness prevented him from going to sea and\u00a0for a time he managed a shop at Brough in Whalsay and at another time was\u00a0a builder\u2019s labourer working around Shetland and Orkney. 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