The Herring Trade
Postcards cashing in on the local fishing industry
By John Layton
Ever since Great Yarmouth was formed there has been a fishing industry.
Even today there is still a shop on Regent Road selling Kippers, which can be posted to anywhere in the country!
It comes as no surprise, then, that the seaside postcard industry would cash in on the trade!
The first postcard here shows two typical 'Scotch' Girls (as they were known) off duty, knitting needles in hands. This was a regular sight in town, and my mother and grandmother both remember seeing them walking around town, knitting and chatting as they went.
The other three postcards show some of the ways the humble herring (be it kipper or bloater) has found its way onto the postcard 'scene'. There are other postcards in the archive showing boxes of kippers and barrels of herrings on the quayside.