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32 photos tagged trawler, from 7 members of Flickr Commons.

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Yorkshire Belle in for refit at Grovehill Shipyard late 1940s (archive ref DDX1544-1-11 (66)

from East Riding Archives

  • Keith Dorey said:
    The image could be the former Yorkshire Belle that was lost during the war as the new one has a funnel which does not appear to be on this image.
  • East Riding Archives said:
    Keith many thanks for pointing this out - always pleased to receive more detail/insight on our images. If you've got some more info we could add this to the description?

Rocks, blocks and chocks

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 14 older comments, and then…
  • Swordscookie said:
    The trawler doesn't look that big until you look at the size of the digger beside it. Even a small boat is much bigger looking out of the water.
  • Fred Dean Snr. said:
    The boat is Venture SO 523 on a slipway. The "block" is a boatyard building. www.google.ie/maps/@54.6324935,-8.44514,3a,60y,87.73h,89....
  • George FitzPatrick said:
    Sligo registration on the trawler and digger looks like a Ford H-42 with that pivot arrangement on main Jib
  • beachcomber australia said:
    14 May 1976 was a Friday ...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Rocks, blocks and chocks; but no sign of clocks ...

Matthew M. Lamb, trawler-hand, arrested for breaking and entering

from North East Museums

  • Michiel2005 said:
    You don't hear many criminals saying that nowadays: “I don’t know anything about it but I take all responsibility”.
  • optimal chicken said:
    A very clear image with lots of character to it. What's interesting about these police mugshots is that it shows crime has always happened - personally I don't think 'The Good old Days' existed. Instead, I think times were very hard and even making small sums of money illegally happened often. No welfare state existed back then and when work was slack or health was poor then people took desperate measures..
  • Michiel2005 said:
    [https://www.flickr.com/photos/flyeye] I don't think anybody argues that there was no crime in the past, but what is striking is the amount of attention from the police and the press these relatively small property crimes attract. Also the hard punishments are noteworthy. It would be difficult to find a police station where you can report such crimes nowadays, let alone that they will be brought to court.
  • optimal chicken said:
    Michiel2005 I still hear older folk complaining 'it was never like that in the past'.. I agree though - petty crime but we need to remember that a coat or two kitchen knives was often all folk had. That amplified the severity of the crimes. Imagine finding you have no coat mid-winter and no money to buy one.