Old Photograph Fishwives Shelling Mussels Stonehaven Scotland

Old photograph of fishwives shelling Mussels in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. According to legend, mussels have been cultivated in Europe since 1235 when Patrick Walton, an Irish sailor shipwrecked on the French coast, hung up nets in order to catch fish and found that mussels attaching themselves to the poles supporting the nets.



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