Scarborough fishing families - the Rowley family

This page features articles which mention the Rowley fishing family in some way.

1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster 

1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster One of the duties of the lifeboat is to escort fishing boats back to port during bad weather. Storms can whip up out of no where and the lifeboat would be there to help just in case. On the 8th December 1954 such...

Burniston and Cloughton and its shipping and seafaring history

Burniston & Cloughton maritime history This page features articles on this site which mention the Cloughton coastline in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just mention Cloughto...

Cobles along the Scarborough and Filey coast

Cobles on the Yorkshire Coast This page features articles on this website that mention cobles.   1799 - a great storm off Filey Bridge and a famous rescue A great storm off Filey Bridge and a famous rescue in 1799 The following is a...

Dennis Allen - stories from the sea 

Dennis Allen - stories from the sea This is a short extract from a book Dennis Allen wrote about his first trip to sea in 1954. The wind screaming through the rigging reached its peak as the storm hit us. Waves crashed over the decks ripping th...

Eves family

Scarborough fishing families - the Eves family This page features articles on this site which mention the Eves fishing family in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just mention Eves once...

Frank Bayes death

THE DEATH OF YOUNG FRANK BAYES, age 24,  by granddaughter of James Ruffen Bayes On December 8th,1954 three scarborough Lifeboatmen lost their lives. Amongst them was young Frank Bayes. Local Ann Moncrief remembers this day well. Her uncl...

GST History

In 2014 we put on a major exhibition about the Graham Sea Training School.  Many old pupils visited and donated photographs and information about the school, which was held in high esteem.  We now have several huge files available to v...

Heritage - trawler loss, 1993 

The loss of the Scarborough trawler Heritage in 1993 Fishermen and their families are aware of the dangers in the industry. Yet when tragedy strikes it always seems so unexpected. They somehow think accidents will happen to others - it won't h...

Hodds family

Scarborough fishing families - the Hodds family This page features articles on this site which mention the Hodds fishing family in some way Cowling fishing family of Filey Scarborough and Flamborough The Cowling fishing family This page feat...

Hodds Family history - the U-Boats 

Hodds Family history - the U-Boats The following article is based upon the history of the Hodds family - a local Scarborough fishing and seafaring family. The oldest member of which was Joshia Hodds. He had two sons - Horace and Walter Hodds. Both...

Jenkinson family

Scarborough fishing families - the Jenkinson family This page features articles on this site which mention the Jenkinson fishing family in some way.  32 Sandside  My grandfather's house at 32 Sandside The following story was su...

Johnson family

Scarborough fishing families - the Johnson family This page features articles on this site which mention the Johnson fishing family in some way.    A to Z listing of Famous Scarborough people SMHC Archive File information held o...

Life in the Old Town of Scarborough and harbour - the fishing families 

Life in the Old Town of Scarborough and harbour - the fishing families "When I was about 10 year old I was playing wave dodging on the lifeboat slip way and a wave hit me and pulled me down the slip way and old man gabber pulled me out got me...

Lives of Scarborough fishermen 

The life of Scarborough fishermen "6 of us here where our lives depended on getting the right conditions, and there was many a time when you got caught out at sea and the weather sometimes got that so bad that you could not get back into Scar...

Loss of the Sincere in 1968 

The loss of the Sincere in 1968 The Sincere, registered in Aberdeen as A555 but fishing out of Scarborough, was lost on 28th May 1968. At 3 a.m. in the thick fog she ran aground onto rocks just south of Cayton Bay in an area called Black Horse Roc...

Mainprize family

Scarborough fishing families - the Mainprize family This page features articles on this site which mention the Mainprize fishing family in some way.    1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster  1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster ...

Matson family

Scarborough fishing families - The Matson family This page features articles which mention the Matson faily in some way.   Cammish, Jenkinson and Sheader  Cammish, Jenkinson and Sheader Familys A look at the electoral register i...

Merrie Islington - sunk by a U-boat off Whitby 

The Merrie Islington - sunk by a U-boat off Whitby Many of the articles involved on this site involve a personal journey. They link to someones family history which has been meticulously researched. This is one such article. I was contacted by a H...

Origins of Fishermen versus Firemen Football match on Boxing Day 

Scarboroughs Fishermen versus Firemen Football match on Boxing Day Every year people congregate on the South Bay beach in Scarborough. They watch the Fishermen versus the Firemen football match and then usually move on to the Harbour quayside to w...

Passing on our maritime heritage to the younger generation 

Passing on our maritime heritage to the younger generation Scarborough Maritime Heritage Project has recently been involved in a pioneering project to bring members of our respected fishing community together with the Old Town's younger genera...

Ray Edmonds stories of the Old Town in Scarborough 

Ray Edmonds stories of the Old Town in Scarborough Ray Edmonds lives in Princess Terrace and spent many years at sea. He has recorded some of his old stories on a DVD which has been placed on Youtube. If he had a pound for every time he passed ...

RNLI - Scarborough,Whitby, Filey

RNLI history - Scarborough,Whitby, Filey This page features articles on this site which mention RNLI or Lifeboats in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just mention Lifeboat once. &b...

Scarborough's Old Town and its connection to the sea 

Scarborough's Old Town and its connection to the sea Scarboroughs rich maritime heritage revolves around the Old Town. This comprises the area around the harbour and on the castle hill. The Old Town extends as far as Friargate and Scarboroughs...

Sheader families 

Scarborough fishing families - the Sheader families This page features articles on this site which mention the Sheader fishing families in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just mention...

Shops

We hold files listing and describing some of the many small shops that existed in Scarborough in times past. Below is a sample list of what we hold. Contact us for more information. (updated 2012). The Market in the history of Scarborough Marke...

Superstitions in the Scarborough fishing community

Superstitions in the Scarborough fishing community This page features articles on this site which mention the superstions in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. • The fishing community in Flamborough he...

Tommy Rowley - stories about loss of life at sea 

Tommy Rowley - stories about loss of life at sea Life at sea is often dangerous and the most difficult thing is to watch as fishermen are in trouble and yet you can do nothing. Tommy Rowley recalls "I remember the loss of the Admiral Von T...

Tunny fishing in Scarborough in the 1930's 

Tunny fishing in Scarborough in the 1930's In the early 1930's someone discovered that huge Tunny fish lived in the North Sea. They were not easy to capture and so big game anglers turned this into a sport. This was a useful sideline for t...

Videos on maritime superstitions, net mending, trawling, etc:

Videos on maritime superstitions, net mending, trawling etc: In 2012 we carried out a series of interviews with local fishermen and their families about their old maritime superstitions. Please click on the links below to take you to the Youtube v...

What the sea means to me

What the sea means to me Local fishermen, mariners & residents were asked what the sea means to them.  Here are some of their answers:- “The sea feeds us, it entertains us and it excites us. It takes us to new countries to me...

Whitby & Saltburn coastline

The Whitby & Saltburn coastline This page features articles on this site which mention Whitby or areas close by in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just mention Whitby once. ...

WW1 articles list

First World War & Scarborough This page features articles on this site which mention World War One in some way.    100th anniversary event - images 2014 Bombardment Centenary Event In 2014, the Scarborough Maritime Heri...

WW1 mercantile deaths - Scarborough men

surname forename initials age date_of_death rank regiment unitshipsquadron cemeterymemorial gravereference additionalinformation APPLEBY JOHN ROWLEY J R 19 05/04/1918 ...

WW1 Navy deaths - Scarborough men

surname forename initials age date_of_death rank regiment unitshipsquadron servicenumberExport cemeterymemorial gravereference additionalinformation ANDERSON GEORGE WILLIAM G..



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