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Herring in Shetland
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Herring in Shetland

Historic Photographs
Léa Moreau
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Herring in Shetland
George Washington Wilson rarely gave us an insight into industrial life but he obviously found that herring fishing offered these fascinating images of harbour scenes with arrays of boats, sails and barrels.

Women worked in the open air at the troughs (farlins) gutting the newly landed herring, salting and packing them into the barrels which the men later closed before loading them on to the larger sailing vessels for export to Germany and Russia.

Holmsgarth, Lerwick, Shetland
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George Washington Wilson
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Aberdeen Local Studies
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