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| Picture No | 11965528 |
| Date | 1905 |
| Description | Quay at Great Yarmouth - Herring Harvest 1905 |
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Steam drifters engaged in herring fishery lying alongside. The curiously shaped double baskets seen on the floor are called 'lasts'. During the season, herring would fill some 38,700 would be caught, cleaned and sent away to be sold.
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| Source | Photograph in 'The Bystander', 4 January 1905, page 28 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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