B/w print
Acc.no: PEZPH : 1996.155
Identification
Item: The wall of salted pilchards
Description: The most famous St Ives pilchard cellar is the background to a carefully posed composition to show the bulking of pilchards using a pre 1870 method. The wall in the centre is a bulk of layers of salt and pilchards built by dozens of women and left until ready to be packed into the hogsheads at the bottom of the picture. The fish were packed in a rose pattern, tails to the centre. The barrels were pressed, using poles and pressing stones. From the mid 1870s the bulking method was replaced by salting the fish in concrete tanks, screw presses replacing pressing stones. These tanks still exist. This property was rebuilt as Barnaloft Flats, accessed from Back Road West with Porthmeor Beach behind.
Condition: Good -
Description
Height: Mm
Width: Mm
Material: Photograph
Production
Method: Printed
Date: 1871
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