Beach and customs watch house, Fleetwood, Lancashire

Looking north-west from the pier in the River Wyre estuary to the North Euston Hotel, the low lighthouse and the Customs Watch House. The shrimper 78.FD (Morecambe Bay prawner) is aground, bows to the beach, at the water's edge. A group of children are paddling in the shallows of the shrimper's port bow. Francis Frith & Co negative no. 30421.

Object Details

ID: G2624
Collection: Historic Photographs
Type: Glass photonegative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Francis Frith & Co
Places: Lancashire
Date made: circa 1892
Exhibition: Beside the Seaside
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 150 x 215 mm