The herring fisheries in Scarborough

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

• Theakston's guide to the Scarborough fisheries 1866
• Filey fishermen in 1862 - yawls and cobles
• The new way of catching caller herrin
• The history of the Scarborough fishing industry
• The history of the herring fishing in the North Sea
• A preachers trip on a Filey Herring yawl
• Luggers and yawls in the filey fishing industry
• 1000 years of fishing
• Godfrey Sheader - stories of the herring fleet and Lifeboats
• Catching fish - a good catch and bad catch
• Children of the fishing families in Scarborough
• Filey and the gales of 1860,1867,1869 AND 1880
• The port of Scarborough in the late 15th Century
• Trawling and overfishing - Filey fishing
• Migrations of fishing families - Filey - Yarmouth and Ramsgate
• Ranter Chapel revival in Filey
• Some typical Scarborough boats
• The fishing community in Flamborough head - superstition and bad luck
• Fish sold for manure
• Drink and alcohol in the Filey fishing community
• Women working in the Scarborough fishing industry
• Paying the rent in Herrings at Whitby - John Rushton
• Sea shanties and the filey Fishermen's choir
• Customs relating to Filey fishing
• The Filey Flither girls - truth or fiction
• Conflict amongst fishermen
• Instructions to sailors - Flamborough Head
• Scarborough Fish in Mediaeval monasteries. by John Rushton.
• Ray Edmonds stories of the Old Town in Scarborough
• The fishermen and fisheries of Robin Hood's Bay in 1838
• Sharks and big fish along the Robin Hood's Bay coast
• Scarborough shipbuilders
• A sea shanty about a storm on the Scarborough coast
• Thomas Hinderwell - history of Scarboroughs fisheries
• Trawler boat names - romantic shhips names
• Wyrill Crawford - Scarborough fisherman
• Stories from Robin Hood's Bay and Whitby


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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 -