Sepia albumen print
Acc.no: PEZPH : 2016.50.226
Identification
Item: Lowestoft mackerel drifters and steam tug anchored in Gwavas Lake.
Description: A young girl is in the foreground of the photograph looking out from a cobbled area, over the Lowestoft mackerel drifters and steam tug anchored in Gwavas Lake. The Lowestoft drifters first came to Cornwall in 1860 after the Royal Albert Bridge stimulated the market for Cornish mackerel. Previously mackerel had been shipped by the Hayle to Bristol packet steamers. From the 1870s the London & South Western Railway Co hired Gamecock Co steam tugs to ship mackerel from the Isles of Scilly and Newlyn to Plymouth and Southampton in competition with Great Western Rail.
Condition: Good
Description
Material: Photographic paper
Production
Method: Printed
Category: Photography
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