Filey and the sea

This page features articles on this site which mention Filey or areas close by in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just mention Filey once.

• The history of Filey Lifeboats
• Characters of the Filey fishing industry
• Losses amongst Filey fishing cobles
• A common ancestry - The Filey Jenkinsons
• Luggers and yawls in the filey fishing industry
• Ranter Chapel revival in Filey
• Filey and the gales of 1860,1867,1869 AND 1880
• Tragedies in the Jenkinson fishing family in Filey
• Migrations of fishing families - Filey - Yarmouth and Ramsgate
• The Research - sunk with Filey men on board in 1925
• A great storm off Filey Bridge and a famous rescue in 1799
• Trawling and overfishing - Filey fishing
• The Filey Lifeboat - its origins
• Filey and its early fishing industry
• Filey and the Great War - minesweeping and influenza
• Community spirit in the Old Town in Filey
• The Womens work in the Filey fishing industry
• Filey fishermen in 1862 - yawls and cobles
• Stories from Flamborough Head and Filey
• Customs relating to Filey fishing
• Primitive Methodism in Filey
• aThe coble boats of Filey Flamborough and Runswicks Bay
• The Filey Flither girls - truth or fiction
• Church first and Church last - Filey methodists and St Oswald's
• The worst day in Fileys history - a hurricane
• Fishermen's nicknames in Filey
• Thomas Crimlisk - First of the Crimlisks
• Haddock Legend, And Herring Fishery in Filey
• The Crimlisk fishing family history in Scarborough Filey and Hull
• Fishing farming and tourism in the early Filey - 1805
• Charles Dickens account of a shipwreck at Filey
• Suzanne Pollard and her Filey Fishing relatives
• Sea shanties and the filey Fishermen's choir
• A preachers trip on a Filey Herring yawl
• The tithe of fish at Filey
• Was there a roman port in scarborough? By John Rushton
• Scarborough fishermen and the U-Boats by Godfrey Arthur
• Gristhorpe Bay - privateers, rights to wrecks and periwinkles
• Charles Dickens account of Filey and Scarborough graveyards
• An early history of Filey and its fishing community
• Illigitamacy amongst the Filey fishing community
• Filey tourism in 1862 - better than Scarborough
• Hunger at sea
• Caught on the Filey Cliffs
• The Filey fishery
• Poem about the Filey Flither Girls
• Drink and alcohol in the Filey fishing community
• Folk lore of the East Yorkshire coast
• Kolberg lays a minefield off Scarborough
• Climbing the cliffs in filey in 1779 - Yorkshires maritime heritage
• Sailors graves on the Scarborough coastline.
• Scarborough Steam Trawler Owners
• The loss of the Sincere in 1968
• Thomas Hinderwell - history of Scarboroughs fisheries
• The Filey Flither girls - Arthur Munby
• A filey ghost
• The loss of the Scarborough trawler Heritage in 1993
• Robin Hood's Bay - The Storm family website
• Primitive Methodism amongst the Scarborough Filey and Flamborough fishing communities


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YORKSHIRE COAST
- Runswicks Bay -
- John Rushton articles -
- Scarborough colliers -
- Fishing tithes and monastries -
- Scarborough Shipbuilding -
- Trade and merchant shipping in Scarborough(including smugglers) -
- RNLI and shipwrecks -
- Smuggling -
- U-Boats -
- Old Town -
- Shanties, songs and poems -
- Scarborough Spaw -
- World War Two -
- Cliffs and coastline -
- Yawls -
- Tindall shipping family -

YORKSHIRE COAST
- Runswicks Bay -
- Whitby Coast -
- Robin Hood's Bay -
- Cloughton -
- Cayton Bay -
- Filey -
- Speeton -
- Flamborough -
- Hull -

FISHING FAMILIES
- Allen family-
- Bayes family -
- Bullamore family -
- Cammish families -
- Cappleman families -
- Cowling and Colling -
- Crawford family -
- Crimlisk family -
- Dalton family
- Eves family
- Harwood family
- Hodds family
- Jenkinson family -
- Johnson families -
- Leadley family -
- Mainprize family -
- Matson family -
- Normandale family -
- Pashby family -
- Rowley family -
- Sheader families -
- Robinson family
- Scales family
- Sellers family
- Smalley family
- Swift family
- Trueman family
- Walker families

OTHER TOPICS
- The Old Town -
- RNLI and shipwrecks -
- Sea shanties and Poems -
- U-Boats -
- World war Two -
- The Navy -
- Smuggling -
- Coble boats -
- Shipbuilding -
-; Sailing ships -
- Trawlers -
- Herring fishing -
- Yawls -
- The cliffs and coastline -