Old travel Blog photograph of fishwives and fishermen by the harbour in Cellardyke in the East Neuk Fife, Scotland. Cellardyke harbour experienced much congestion in the middle of the 19th century, due partly to the ever increasing number of boats, but mainly also to the increase in size of these boats. Fishermen were now using much larger boats, to enable them to venture further out to sea and return with much greater catches of fish. It was a Cellardyke boat that made the first of what was to become the annual autumn parade of Scottish boats to the East Anglian Herring Fishing at Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft in England. I was raised in this old Scottish fishing village on the East coast.
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