The fishing industry of Lancashire is very much a part of the county’s heritage. Those who read this book will realise that this is a living and ongoing history says author Ron Freethy.
Before the memories are lost forever, author Ron Freethy has taken the time to talk to those who made their living from the sea.
Using first-hand accounts by local people from their own memories and those of their parents, and a fascinating collection of photographs, he tells the story of the fishermen of Lancashire; the conditions, the work, the people and the humour.
The book is available on Amazon.
The three programmes in the series – For Those In Peril, The Joy of the Sea and Gone Fishing – use home movies and amateur films, much of it never before seen on television, to tell the story of our relationship with the sea in the 20th century.
We experienced the sea in that century for either work or pleasure and when we got into trouble it was the men and women of the rescue services who helped us out. The three programmes encompass these themes; wonderful film archive of long-board surfing, shot in Cornwall in the 1920s by north London Jewish teenagers, the lives of a herring fishermen family from Peterhead in the 1950’s and the astonishing film record of a dramatic air sea rescue off the Cornish coast in the 1960’s are some of the highlights.
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