Working and life on the Norfolk Broads in the late 19th Century

My pal Malcolm Woods has just found a new online collection of Victorian photographer Peter Henry Emerson’s atmospheric shots depicting the Norfolk Broads. They’re stunning – though I can’t help that despite the dreamy tranquility they do seem to depict a hard and narrow-looking sort of life. There would be work and the struggle of getting by all … Continue reading “Working and life on the Norfolk Broads in the late 19th Century”

Norfolk’s last eel catcher gives up…

The sad news that the old trade of eel catching is no more.  Such a young man too – I hope the future has good things in store.    

York Rose – The Norfolk Broads, 1968

That would be about the time of my second trip to The Broads. For my first I was still in a cot – and no doubt my often-anxious mother must have been having kittens by the score…