Fishing

Boat Building and Marine Engineering

Wildfowling, Marshmen and Inland Waterways

Fishing

Index

Introduction

Fishing for herring dominated the fishing along the East Coast, especially at Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. But this is not the whole story. Following the coast from the Wash round to Essex, there were a number of different fishing operations, all set up to gain a living from the sea. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, whaling operated from King's Lynn, and along the north west and north norfolk coasts there was a thriving shell fishery, for mussels, cockles and whelks. At Cromer, crab fishing and longshore fishing dominated. Inland, on the Broads, freshwater catches such as eels were exploited. In Essex, at Mersea, Burnham on Crouch and Brightlingsea, whitebait and oyster fishing were of more significance.

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Brightlingsea Museum

Burnham-on-Crouch and District Museum

Cromer Museum

Excelsior Trust

Fishermen's Heritage Centre Sheringham

Harwich Maritime Museum

Lowestoft and East Suffolk Maritime Heritage Museum

Lynn Museum

Mersea Island Museum

Mundesley Maritime Museum

Henry Blogg

black and white photograph of Cromer coxswain Henry Blogg with the Prince of Wales at a presentation ceremony in the Central Hall, Westminster, London

Gansey Doube-pointed Steel Knitting Needles

Six steel double-pointed needles, of size 16 and 17 gauge, the type used for knitting ganseys.

colour slide

West Runton Elephant. A reconstruction drawing by Sam Brown of the likely appearance of the West Runton elephant.

Harold Hems measuring the WRE Pelvis

photograph, colour slide, photographer Dr A.J. Stuart, 1990. Harold Hems measuring the pelvis of a large bull elephant in situ in the West Runton Freshwater Bed. 1990

The Davies family taken between 1907 and 1909

Henry Blogg and the Prince of Wales

A black and white photograph of Cromer coxswain Henry Blogg with the Prince of Wales at a presentation ceremony in the Central Hall, Westminster, London

The Battle of the Dogger Bank

In March 1915 Rev Hamilton wrote in the Cromer Parish Magazine that he had been talking to Tom Ba…