‘We have tears in here many a time’
Brian W Lavery visits a Hornsea retired trawler skipper and friends who have taken fishing’s history and heritage into their own hands A few years ago it looked like just another long city thoroughfare with little or nothing really to show it was once home to the...
The model citizen of Green Island
After a remarkably detailed diorama of the old St Andrew’s fish docks was donated to the Hull Fishing Heritage Centre, Brian W Lavery paid a visit to the exotic – but misleadingly named – Holderness home of its maker… When I tapped the postcode for Green Island into...
The changing face of fishing
A Holderness project aimed at boosting careers at sea wants to encourage more young people into the fishing industry from both genders… Brian W Lavery reports It all started with skipper Karl Price having a good old moan to his friend John Leppington about having to...
The film crew who swapped fishing nets for movie reels
Brian W Lavery meets accidental movie mogul Andrew Fenton, whose new Brit flick has been hailed as the ‘Fishermen’s Full Monty’ and is set to make stars of five ex-fishermen – including a retired skipper from Hornsea Roles in a new film once meant for Sir David Jason and...
Bring her home
A campaign has been launched to raise funds to bring home the Viola – the world’s oldest viable steam trawler – from her final berth in the South Atlantic. Brian W Lavery tells her incredible story… VIOLA lies rusting – with her mighty heart stilled – 8,000 miles...
