• Main Index
• This and That
• The Romans
• The Middle Ages
• 19th Century History
• The World Wars
• Local Characters
• Transport
• Drifting and Trawling
• Shipwrecks
• GYBC and GYPA
• Local Interest Websites
• Slideshows
• The Cockrill Archive
• The Cockrill Buildings
• Sea Wall Collapse 1969
• The Town Wall
• Filmshows
• Fishing

History of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston-on-Sea

A 10 minute British Pathé film about Drifting

This film describes the day in the life of a Drifter and it's crew. The film describes how the nets are paid out and retrieved and the herring caught.

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A short British Pathé film about Fisher Girls

This film shows the work of the Scottish women who came to Great Yarmouth to prepare the herrings.

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A short British Pathé film about the herring catch.

This film show scenes of herrings being cured in various ways for the market place.

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