Picture No | 11965530 |
Date | 1905 |
Description | Great Yarmouth - Herring Harvest 1905 |
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During the herring harvest Scottish women wearing dark skirts, thick boots and coarse shawls came down from Scotland to help. Standing before a long trough filled with myriads of silver fish, fisherman's wives would clean and gut as easy as knitting.
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Source | Photograph in 'The Bystander', 4 January 1905, page 29 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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