Herrings Collection

Cat Stealing Herrings
A naughty cat stealing fresh Margate herrings off a barrow!

Herring fishing station, Lerwick, Shetland Islands, with women packing fish into barrels for export

Herring Curing Holland
People curing herrings in Holland

Yarmouth Herring Fishery, Drying the Herrings Date: 1854

Yarmouth Herring Fishery, Washing the Herrings Date: 1854

Unload Scotch Boats at Great Yarmouth. Date: November 1902

The Battle of the Herrings (the Battle of Rouvray), in Northern France, during the Siege of Orleans, fought between France and Scotland against England, 12 February 1429

Herring Fishery on the East Coast 1902
Fishermen tightly packing the herring in wooden barrels with salt. Date: November 1902

Fishermen unloading their catch during the herring harvest, October and November. Date: November 1910

Photograph showing a group of Scottish women standing over the barrels that are being packed with herring in brine, ready for export. Date: November1901

Scottish lasses knitting jerseys for the fishermen during their dinner hour. Date: November 1912

Herring Harvest in Great Yarmouth 1934
A small group of the 2, 000 Scottish herring gutters which came to Great Yarmouth in the October to earn some money. Date: October 1934

Scottish Fisher-Women in Great Yarmouth 1932
Scottish fisher lassies who came to Great Yarmouth for the herring harvest, sharing their biscuits with the lucky crew of the Cornstalk. Date: October 1932

Scottish Fisher-Woman in Great Yarmouth 1932
One of the 3, 000 Scottish women that came every year to Great Yarmouth in the herring harvest to gut fish in the months of October and November. Date: October 1932

Herring Harvest in Great Yarmouth 1932
Some of the 3, 000 Scottish women which could gut about forty fish a minute, arrived on the east coast of Great Yarmouth. Date: October 1932

Fresh herring being loaded upon trucks. Date: November 1910

One of the thousands of Scottish women that came to Great Yarmouth in the herring harvest to pack and gut fish in the months of October and November. Date: November 1910

Scotch Herring Women Workers 1902
Towns of Yarmouth and Lowesoft in the East Anglian ports were full of women from Scotland, coming down to help with the herring harvest in October and November

Advert, Moir, Wilson & Co Ltd, Aberdeen, Scotland
Advert for Moir, Wilson & Co Ltd, Herrings in Tomato Sauce, Deeside Preserved Provision Works, Aberdeen, Scotland. 1905

Quay at Great Yarmouth - Herring Harvest 1905
Steam drifters engaged in herring fishery lying alongside. The curiously shaped double baskets seen on the floor are called lasts

Great Yarmouth - Herring Harvest 1905
Gathering the harvest of the sea: Fishermen cleaning the nets during the Yarmouth herring season, 650 to 700 Scotch boats from Aberdeen

Herring boats in Yarmouth 1861
Early morning arrival of the first herring boats in Yarmouth. Date: 1861

Fishes with comic verse on a Christmas card
Fishes (herrings and sprats) with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Clupea harengus, or Atlantic Herring, an abundant species of the Clupeidae family. Date: 1865

Arctic Chimaera, or Rabbit Fish
Arctic Chimaera, also known as Rabbit Fish, Sea Ape and King of the Herrings. Date: 1862

Gutting Herrings, Ardglass - a crowd of people, mainly women are working at fish on the pier. In the background is a horse and cart and the fishing boats

Curing Herrings, Ardglass - a close in view showing workers on the pier cleaning fish. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Ardglass). Date: circa early 1900s

King of herrings, Regalecus glesne, and deal fish, Trachipterus arcticus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830. Illustration by J.G

Drawing Red Herrings by Heath Robinson
Heath Robinsons Encyclopaedia of Sport - IX. Drawing red herrings across the sands of Dee. Another crazy idea for a new sport from the inventive mind of William Heath Robinson. Date: 1914

Willem De Beukelszoon
Emperor Carl V visits the grave of Willem Beukelszoon, a fisherman of Biervlet, who discovered how to preserve herrings by leaving the pancreas inside the fish. Date: circa 1550

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk - Landing Herring at the harbour Date: circa 1907

Yarmouth Fishery, Norfolk - Pickling Herring. Date: 1906

A M Herrings glider trials on the Indiana Dunes in 1897
A.M. Herrings glider trials on the Indiana Dunes in 1897

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

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

Sprats / Cries of London
Selling Sprats as big as herrings! in a market place, all alive-O presumably proving their freshness

Fish Peddler Attacked
At Toul, France, a fish peddler carrying a basket of herrings is ambushed by a swarm of crows who rob him of his stock while he beats them off with his stick

Pyne - Fishermen (2)
FISHERMEN - From Great Yarmouth at work among the great shoals of herrings, mackerel, pilchards, whitings, sprats, salmon, cod, oysters, lobsters found in our waters

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