Fish being weighed, Polperro, Cornwall.

A group of fishermen checking a catch of fish being weighed on official scales on the foreshore, watched by local boys with two women and a baby standing on the entrance balcony of a stone cottage. The stern of the dried out Plymouth lugger ALICE & JANE can be seen on the left.

Francis Frith & Co negative no. 21276.

Object Details

ID: G2447
Collection: Historic Photographs
Type: Glass photonegative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Francis Frith & Co
Places: Polperro
Date made: circa 1889
Exhibition: Beside the Seaside
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 152 x 215 mm