Fish Collection (page 4)

Customers line up to buy cockles froma stall in Leigh-on-Sea Circa 1950

Freda Peterson, aged 20, (left) and Peggy Mckay, 17, watch their work piling up on the deck of the fishing boat Betty Leslie. The girls are herring packers at Lerwick, Shetland Isles

White Sea trawling on the SS Kastonia. Haisting up a ground shark that was brought of in the trawl. April 1924

Cat and puffer fish. December 1975

Fishing Industry. Fisherwomen preparing herrings to be smoked as Kipper s. September 1943 P000700

Fishing Industry: Herring. Kippers being smoked. Februrary 1986 P000705

Fishing Industry: Herrings. The lady nearest camera is Mrs. Nelly Godman aged 65 years, she has handled over a million herrings and been on the same job in a fish house for 47 years

Fishing Industry: Herrings. Here are the famous Yarmouth Kippers ready to be smoked at Messrs John Woodger and Sons who have just celebrated their centenary in the trade. December 1945 P000701

Fishing industries: Herrings. fisherwoman mounting herrings on a machine in a Cannery. January 1940 P000703

Woman holding fish on a platter. 1957 A17a

Something fishy going on here e Usher, the penguin e he got his name because he was born
Something fishy going on here Ð Usher, the penguin Ð he got his name because he was born in a beer barrel Ð has found a secret supply of food at Rode Bird Gardens Somerset, where he lives

So the Scotch women gutters have their turn. They begin work at 6 or 7 o clock and go through the day gutting the herring which are then salted packed in barrels and sent abroad

A Sea Anemone tentacles close over its prey which is drawn down into to sac of a stomach. April 1935

The herrings fleet lands its catch at Yarmouth docks. October 1936

Fishing Industry. Yarmouth fisherwomen gutting herring. October 1936 P002014

Feeding fish at London Zoo. 1959 C26-003

Feeding fish at London Zoo. 1959 C26

Taxidermist Workshop. January 1960 A715-001

Freshly caught eels seen here being prepare to be made in to East Londons favorites food Jellied Eels. 1963 A914-009

French housewife Mrs. Maria Quaranta buying food stuff from the delivery car. April 1975 75-2072-009

Snowy the white rat prepares to dive into the gold fish tank as part of his daily exercise regime. March 1970 P007373

Although hes not big enough for Dads boots, or his old uniform, little Bruce Urquhart is determined to follow in his fathers footsteps as a sea lion trainer, 10th January 1966

Bumping into a white mouse swimming in the privacy of your own tank is almost enough to make any goldfish gasp. This little mouse, with the fitting name of Bobby Mc-Gregor

Ian Lonnon, head keeper at Edinburgh Zoo, catches his tea Eskimo style December 1981. He cut a hole in the ice at the Zoos penguin pond

Dolphin Rocky with keeper John Brathwaite. November 1987 P005194

What a whopper! This 36 and a half pound salmon was landed on the river Wye by Coventry angler Billy Lane yesterday. Lane caught the massive salmon at Martins Pool, between Hereford and Monmouth

Caught off Southend this 27 pound Salmon is being weighed and measured in a West End Fishmongers. The fish was a record catch for Southend. 2nd May 1937

A prize pike. Trevor Adams poses proudly for the camera after winning the Blemhiem Angling Society fishing competiton at Draysbury with his 7 pound pike. 19th December 1976

Sam Holland proudly holding one of his specially bread super trouts at his fishery at Avington in Hampshire. 13th February 1976

Fishing - Two young anglers who were competing in the South Wales Echo Seamaster Open at Cold Knap, Barry. Richard Williams (left) aged 10 and Nicholas Ponting, aged 10

Winner of the Ladbrokes Super League fishing competition Steve Gardener of Redhill, Sureey seen here with his 51 Ib catch, at Coombe Abbey Lake near Coventry. 24th July 1977

Catch of the day. Old man Thames gave a rich harvest when fishermen at the Westminster part of the river landed forty fish in four hours

A Great Plaice for Fishing. St Annes on Sea, Lancashire, had a problem with their open air swimming pool. How to clean the pool of Alge

One of the competitors in the Ladbrokes Super League Fishing Competition seen here posing with his catch before the weigh in at Coombe Abbey Lake near Coventry. 24th July 1977

Two seahorses. February 1977 P003643

Herrings kippers are prepared to be smoked. January 1940 P004036

Can Spring be far away? The snows of winter seem to be receding. The sun is beginning to make its presence felt. The flowers are starting to appear and the sea is starting to warm up

Columbus the clown at the Swamp Curcus

Fishing food. Jellied Eels. January 1972 P003641

She is not shouting "Come and get it"to the Golden
She is not shouting " Come and get it" to the Golden and Mirror Carp in the big tanks in the aquarium London Zoo

Children: Day Care. Rosemary watches in fascination as the St. Johns nursery goldfish swims around it bowl. November 1953 D6653-003

Animal: Dolphin and Budgie. July 1976 P011859

The Puffin with a mouthful of fish

A young girl enjoying fish and chips the old fashioned way from a newspaper in 1977

82 year old fishwife Mrs. Alice Storey at North Shields Fish Quay in 1967

Fisherlass Millie Cardno from Fraserburgh feeds imported herring into a splitting machine prior to kippering in 1960

Fishergirls on the North Shields Fish Quay hard at work in 1931

Nellie Dempsey of North Shields and Annie Raffan of Peterhead with some herrings after they have been pickled and are ready for the smoke house in 1956

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