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Scotch Herring Women Workers 1902

Towns of Yarmouth and Lowesoft in the East Anglian ports were full of women from Scotland, coming down to help with the herring harvest in October and November. Photograph showing women wearing dark skirts, thick boots and coarse shawls, standing before a long trough filled with herring, gutting and cleaning each one by hand

Picture No
13392378
Media ID
46174998
Size
5804px x 3970px (3.6MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph in The Sphere', 8 November 1902, page 140
Date
November 1902

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Fisheries Fisherwomen Fishery Fishwives Gutting Herring Herrings Prepare Scotch Trough Troughs Yarmouth


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