My father grandfather and eldest brother ran a wholesale fish merchant's business on the Barbican as Foster and Finch for three generations. I used to help my Dad over the summer holidays and at weekends. He'd send me over to Mrs Nicholls cafe for a brew for him and a brekkie for me with the big trawler lads who'd just landed a catch earlier that morning. I was around 7 years old and they seemed like giants with their yellow oil skins. My brother went out on a few trawler trips and had a few scary moments and the aquarium boat Sula which was one of the forerunners of monitoring the sea quality before it became such an important science of sea change and climate change.
One of my great uncles would having been working on a fishing boat from Sutton Habour, before the city was flattened by the Luftwaffe in WW2. Nice area to visit, but the days of the big active fishing fleets have long gone.
Thanks ONLY to us idiotically joining the EEC. Our ports and all our seaside towns were thriving industries for locals. Now they are deportation centres for the great unwashed. It will take more than a generation to recover and that's if Brexit wasn't too late.
My father grandfather and eldest brother ran a wholesale fish merchant's business on the Barbican as Foster and Finch for three generations. I used to help my Dad over the summer holidays and at weekends. He'd send me over to Mrs Nicholls cafe for a brew for him and a brekkie for me with the big trawler lads who'd just landed a catch earlier that morning. I was around 7 years old and they seemed like giants with their yellow oil skins. My brother went out on a few trawler trips and had a few scary moments and the aquarium boat Sula which was one of the forerunners of monitoring the sea quality before it became such an important science of sea change and climate change.
One of my great uncles would having been working on a fishing boat from Sutton Habour, before the city was flattened by the Luftwaffe in WW2. Nice area to visit, but the days of the big active fishing fleets have long gone.
Thanks ONLY to us idiotically joining the EEC. Our ports and all our seaside towns were thriving industries for locals. Now they are deportation centres for the great unwashed. It will take more than a generation to recover and that's if Brexit wasn't too late.
Dubbed sound ?