Scarborough fishing families - The Harwood family

This page features articles which mention the Harwood families in some way. 

1799 - a great storm off Filey Bridge and a famous rescue

A great storm off Filey Bridge and a famous rescue in 1799 The following is an extract from John Cole's ancient history of Filey "History and antiquities of Filey in the county of York" published way back in 1828. It records some of ...

Bullamore family

Bullamore fsihing family The following is intended to complement Ian Hollingsworth’s article about the Harwood and Bullamore fishing family history by setting details of another ‘strand’ of the family. Mr Hollingsworth’s...

Cammish, Jenkinson and Sheader 

Cammish, Jenkinson and Sheader Familys A look at the electoral register in 1905-06 reveals quite a lot. If you look at certain streets within the old town then lots of the houses were taken by the fishing and seafaring families. A look at Quay...

Cobles along the Scarborough and Filey coast

Cobles on the Yorkshire Coast This page features articles on this website that mention cobles.   1799 - a great storm off Filey Bridge and a famous rescue A great storm off Filey Bridge and a famous rescue in 1799 The following is a...

Cowling fishing family of Filey Scarborough and Flamborough

The Cowling fishing family This page features articles on this site which mention the Cowling and Colling fishing family of Scarborough,Flamborough,Filey and Flamborough in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Th...

Eves family

Scarborough fishing families - the Eves family This page features articles on this site which mention the Eves fishing family in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just mention Eves once...

Fighting the Scots in Scarborough waters, early 16th century.

Fighting the Scots in Scarborough waters in the early 16th century. We were often at war with the Scots and the French in the early 16th century. The King ordered the release of a ship of the Prince of Castile and some Scots merchants driven into ...

Flamborough coble disasters 

Flamborough coble disasters An article from the Scarborough Mercury of February 5th 1911. entitled "DISASTROUS STORM - SCARBORO' RESCUES - LOSS OF LIFE AT FLAMBOROUGH - OTHER COBLE CALAMITIES" A sudden and very violent storm of wi...

Frank Bayes death

THE DEATH OF YOUNG FRANK BAYES, age 24,  by granddaughter of James Ruffen Bayes On December 8th,1954 three scarborough Lifeboatmen lost their lives. Amongst them was young Frank Bayes. Local Ann Moncrief remembers this day well. Her uncl...

German U-boat sinks 11 Scarborough Trawlers in one night in World War One.

German U-boat sinks 11 Scarborough trawlers in one night - World War One. On 25th September, 1916 practically all of the Scarborough Trawling fleet was wiped out in a single night by a U-Boat attack. Eleven trawlers were sunk from Scarborough amon...

Harwood and Bullamore fishing family history in Scarborough 

The Harwood and Bullamore fishing familys This family history features the Harwood and Bullamore fishing families and was typed up by Ian Hollingsworth who had a keen interest in family history. He worked at the Scarborough Evening News and died i...

Harwood Brierleys description of Scarborough harbour at the opening of the 20th century 

Harwood Brierleys description of Scarborough harbour at the opening of the 20th century Harwood Brierley described Scarborough harbour somewhat romantically at the opening of the 20th century . "Then come the tiers of the red roofed fishermen...

History - 11

Here is the eleventh  "position paper" for the Harbour Research project. Corrections and additions are welcomed. The purpose of the document is to seek people who will undertake serious research on aspects of the history of the ha...

History - 3

Here is the  third  "position paper" for the 2012 Harbour Research project. Corrections and additions are welcomed. The purpose of the document, with others to come, is to seek people who will undertake serious research on aspects...

Instructions to sailors - Flamborough Head

Instructions to sailors - Flamborough Head Dutch fishermen came every year, for centuries, to follow the herring down the east coast. Their larger vessels were called busses and they developed very effective fishing techniques. Their merchantmen s...

Lifeboat - early years

The early years of the Scarborough Lifeboat This chapter first appeared in Godfrey Arthurs book the Scarborough Lifeboats Since medieval times, the town of Scarborough had been important to mariners for its "harbour of refuge", where ...

Normandale family

Scarborough fishing families - The Normandale family This page features articles on this site which mention The Normandale fishing family in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just menti...

Old Town and the fishing community - article list

Scarborough's Old Town and the fishing community This page features articles on this site which mention Scarboroughs Old Town or the fishing community in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bott...

Poems songs and maritime art

Poems songs and maritime art This page features articles on this site which mention poetry or singing in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just mention poetry once. • Sea shant...

Scarborough's Old Town and its connection to the sea 

Scarborough's Old Town and its connection to the sea Scarboroughs rich maritime heritage revolves around the Old Town. This comprises the area around the harbour and on the castle hill. The Old Town extends as far as Friargate and Scarboroughs...

Seafaring casualties from Scarborough in World War One

Scarborough seafaring casualties in World War One R.I.P. - Skipper Robert Heritage - Second Hand John Chamberlain Barker - Third Hand Arthur Houghton Wright - Chief Engineer Frederick Nathan Mills - Second Engineer James Robert Hunter - Deck...

Sellers family

Scarborough fishing families - the Sellers family This page features articles on this site which mention the Sellers fishing family in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just mention Sel...

Smuggling trade in Yorkshire and Scarborough 

The Yorkshire and Scarborough smuggling trade This page features articles on this site which mention smuggling or words related to smuggling in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just me...

Trawlers and the fishing industry - article list

Trawlers and the fishing industry This page features articles on this website which mention trawlers. Gallery - Trawlers Trawlers Gallery The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats &...

Trueman family

Scarborough fishing families - the Trueman family This page features articles on this site which mention the Truman fishing family in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just mention True...

Walker family

Scarborough fishing families - the Walker family This page features articles on this site which mention the Walker fishing family in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just mention Walke...

Watching for ships by the harbour walls

Watching for ships by the harbour walls in Scarborough The fishing industry was always dangerous. The sailing ships were always vulnerable to gales and bad weather which could come out of nowhere. These huge seas and treacherous storms could endan...

WW1 Navy deaths - Scarborough men

surname forename initials age date_of_death rank regiment unitshipsquadron servicenumberExport cemeterymemorial gravereference additionalinformation ANDERSON GEORGE WILLIAM G...

Yawls

Yawls This page features articles on this website that mention Yawls in some way.  Accidents at sea  Accidents at sea The following article was in the Scarborough Mercury in 1910. It was entitled "SCARBOROUGH HERRING SEASON - .

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