Fishing and fishermen at Cromer in a TV programme from 1978 – including footage of how they handle their beach boats up there…
My thanks to Katie Howson of the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust for spotting this.
Category: Working boats
An appeal for recent photos of Spindrift
William Miller has been in touch to ask whether anyone has recent photos of the very striking fishing vessel Spindrift, which his father bought from Lossiemouth in 1947 (it was then name Rose). The splendid photos above are from William’s family collection.
If you have any shots from recent years, please send them to me at gmatkin@gmail.com and I’ll forward them to William.
Spindrift was sold by the Wick-based Miller family in 1975.
The ‘Hands’ series on currach makers
Oooh – and here’s a bonus: