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The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre was given, by Mrs Wardman, a lovely pair of locally made old leather sea-boots. For retired local fisherman, Allan Roberts, they brought back memories of working for the business that made them in the 1950...
Reproduced from an old article Thursday, 22nd August 1929 in the Scarborough Post - an interview with an old Scarborough fisherman and lifeboatman - Godfrey Sheader
Old Godfrey Sheader belongs to that blue-jerseyed race of men whose tall sea b...
An account from the "Yarmouth Independent" of 8 October 1910: FISHER LASSIES’ GRIEF.
An impressive scene was witnessed at Scarborough at the funeral of a young Scotch fisher girl, Margaret Jane Thompson, of Fraserburgh, who died in...
Herring Fisher Lasses
Scarborough was the 5th largest herring port in the country at one time. The herring shoals swam past Scarborough in August and attracted fishermen from Scotland, the South Coast and Holland. The harbour was so full of boats ...
Herring fishing in Scarborough
This page features articles on this website that mention herring in some way.
1000 years of fishing
1000 years of fishing The following is a summary of the arguments of Professor Callu...
This article is based on an old history published in the local newspaper. This writer knew little of the migrations of herring. The science in those days was really quite basic.
Fishing of herring began in the North Sea with the scottish in th...
A Scarborough Merchant - John Rushton
Robert Schylbotyll was the ancestor of a Scarborough family who were once well known. He probably came from Northumberland to take up grants of land at two places in Scarborough in 1399 and 1403.
His descen...
The Bridlington Circuit Methodist minister George Shaw wrote a fascinating first hand account of herring fishing on a yawl in his book "Our Filey Fishermen", published in 1867. He recounts how he was invited on board by a skipper "...
Steam Trawler 'Ratapiko' SH39
A recent donation to the Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre by Liz Murphy is a painting of the steam trawler Ratapiko by an unknown artist. The vessel has had an interesting and varied history.
S...
Trawling for herring
The steam trawler threatens to make another inroad on the fishing industry. It has practically extinguished the sail boat, by means of which the fishing off the coasts was, till comparatively recent times, extensively and excl...
