Herring Collection (page 7)

Scientists at play, 1899
An attendant in the Botany Library, Robert Hugh Bunting captured his colleagues at play in this humorous private photograph of Museum life taken in 1899

Clupea alosa, shad
Plate 57 by Edward Donovan from his British Fishes, Vol 1, 1802

CLAESZ, Pieter (1597-1661). Breakfast. 1646

Making a herring barrel, Lowestoft
A cooper making a herring barrel in Lowestoft, Suffolk. By the mid-1960s, fish catches from Lowestoft were greatly diminishing, particularly the herring. Date: 1909

Scotland / Girvan
A corner of the harbour at Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland. Girvan is the centre of a thriving herring fishing industry. Date: 1950s

Women gut Herring - Lowestoft, Suffolk
Women gut Herring at Lowestoft, Suffolk Date: circa 1910s

Herring gull on a wall, Brixham, Devon
A herring gull (Larus Argentatus) standing on a wall at Brixham, Devon

Herring boats off St Ives, Cornwall, on a calm sea

Sorting the herring catch at St Ives, Cornwall
Fishermen sorting the herring catch from nets into boxes and baskets on the beach at St Ives, Cornwall

Herring Gulls. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Poster depicting herring drifters in the North Sea
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting herring drifters in the North Sea

Harvest festival with fish
Scene inside a church, decorated for harvest festival. It is perhaps at a seaside location, as the main type of food on display is fish

The Metamorphosis of the Herring by A. K. Macdonald
Two contrasting illustrations. The first shows workers at a quayside or harbour - perhaps Grimsby, sorting a catch of herrings just brought in by a fishing trawler

A Flight across the Herring Pool
Pitt and Dundas encourage the flight of Irish MPs across the Irish channel offering them places and sinecures. Colour Engraving. Isaac Robert Cruikshank (1789-1856). Published 20th June 1800

John Frederick Herring
JOHN FREDERICK HERRING artist specialising in animals and sporting subjects

AMUNDSENs GJOA C1906
In the herring boat Gjoa, Amundsen and his crew became the first to traverse the North-west Passage

Lewis / Stornoway 1906
Isle of Lewis, Hebrides: herring fleet in Stornoway Bay

Herring Seller / 1904
" Wha ll buy my caller herrin " cries the fish seller

Overcoat / Burton 1938
Smartly attired city gent models the double-breasted Pinnacle overcoat with broad, long lapels in a herring bone tweed with window pane check. N.B trilby hat

Three Types of Herring
Three types of herring: 1. common herring 2. silver-striped herring 3. African herring

Fishmonger Scrap
A fishmonger holds a sole in one hand, a herring in the other

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