fishing – Sailing By: Tales from our coasts and inland waterways

Yarmouth smacks, a royal screening, 1896

In this tiny fragment of late 19th century film footage, we see smacks leaving Great Yarmouth. Shot with one of[…]

Sarah Adie shares some fascinating insights into her family’s involvement in the Shetland herring industry. Her great grandfather set up[…]

This ‘Instructional film’ from the Pathé Archive provides a clearly-presented overview of trawling in the 1940s, as steam began to[…]

This Pathé Archive takes us back to 1929-31 with footage of trawlers and fishing boats going out of a harbour[…]

Daniel Defoe describes the fishing fair and other trading activity in Yarmouth, during his travels in Norfolk. He is most[…]

This archive footage from a Pathe Gazette, 1932 shows the Bishop blessing the fleet as they depart St Malo to[…]

Enkhuizen has been a major harbour since the middle ages, and its links with herring fishing are still recognised today[…]

Until the 16th century, Douarnenez was a busy commercial centre exporting local cloth, but its greatest period of prosperity was[…]

In these two short snippets from the Pathé film archive, we see nine Newlyn fishermen petition the Minister of Health[…]

Watch footage of the working boats racing off the coast of Brixham at a regatta in 1936. The archive footage[…]