DO YOU HAVE AMATEUR FILM & MEMORIES OF THE FISHING INDUSTRY IN & AROUND
FLEETWOOD?
Available Light Productions, Bristol is producing for BBC 4 a three part documentary series “the Story of the Sea”. One programme will be on the changes the fishing industry has seen in the last hundred years or so.
The programmes will be based on amateur films and the experiences of local people – often appearing in those films.
We are particularly looking for people who have made amateur films / home movies of their work in the fishing industry, preferably over a period of decades – and who can tell us about the changes they have seen taking place. Can you help?
Please contact:
Sue Bennett: 0117 908 4433
sbennett@availablelight.tv
Steve Welsh, Tower to Tower Cycle Challenge
Fleetwood lad Steve Welsh has signed upto the tower to tower cycle challenge, cycling with Adam at Breakfast and the rest of the Rock FM team, 450 miles from the Eiffel tower to Blackpool tower. The challenge starts on 23rd August 09 when they set off from Paris and will take 6 days to complete before they all arrive in Blackpool on Friday 28th August.
Steve runs a small family fishing business that exports fresh shellfish & langoustines to the continent direct from his fathers trawler, the Colinne, which is one of only two remaining large trawlers to operate in the port.
Steve is pictured aboard his Fathers trawler and hoping not to complete the challenge on the bike that he is pictured on, he asks that if anyone out there is kind enough to donate the use of a road bike for a week to complete the challenge, then that will save him having to complete it on the docks communal shopper. Although the staff have pledged to not only double, but triple their donations if he does complete it on the shopper, which may be an option if he doesn’t manage to raise enough sponsorship.
Steve will be completing this gruelling challenge to raise much needed funds for ‘Cash for Kids’ which is Rock FM’s charity that raises cash to improve the quality of life for disabled and disadvantaged children and young people in Lancashire.
Steve would like to ask all local businesses and residents to get behind him and support him. If anyone would kindly like to make a donation to help Steve in reaching his target for Cash for Kids, you can log onto www.justgiving.co.uk/steve-welsh and make donations by credit/debit card and also leave a message of support. Alternatively, donations can be taken in to his Mums shop, Bridal Cottage, which is situated on North Albert Street, Fleetwood.
Trawler Pictures Website.
Brixham Sailing Trawlers.
Grimsby Reference Library.
Mesothelioma Cancer Centre.
Blackpool History site.
Icelandic trawler Haflidi site.
Merchant Navy Site.
Granton Trawlers.
Newlyn Harbour.
Lancashire FLOAT.
Danish Fishing Vessels.
Milford Trawler Site.
Swansea Mariners.
W H Podd trawlers.
Grimsby Trawlers.
Carlos Poveda’s merchant vessel site.
John Smith’s Trawler site.
Steve Farrow’s Trawler Art site.
Ivan Reid’s trawler photographs.
New Hull trawler site from Chris Petherbridge.
Maritime Website by Frederic Logghe.
Olav Moen’s marine photograph site.
When the Russians attacked the Dogger Bank fleet .
John & Linda Brackenbury.
Survive The Savage Sea.
Lydia Eva.
Ross Tiger.
Steam Trawler Explorer.
Trawler watercolours by Alf Hodson.
Ships of the Isle of Mann SPC.
Another great Dutch site.
Excellent Icelandic Trawler Site
The Support Ship Miranda
Irish Seamens Relatives
Excellent Dutch Trawler Site
The Merchant Navy Officers
Find Old Friends With Vimart
The U35 site
Adrian Corkill’s Isle of Man Shipwrecks Site
Fleetwood Museum’s ‘Netting The Bay’
John Luxton’s Mersey Shipping News
Deep Sea Trawling And The Arctic Corsair
The Jacinta Site
Spurn Point Site
Ray Richardson’s Trawler Website Group
The RNLI Homepage
David Delaney’s Eurofollies
Trawlers as A/s Vessels
Fishing News International
The Marine Laboratory
A Very Nice Fleetwood Site
Harry Tate’s Navy
Fred Moor’s Fylde Gold Links
Andrew Denholm’s Fishing Boat Photographs
The Chantey Cabin
Howdy Dave’s Maritime Links
The Marine Society
We are always looking for fresh information or pictures on any past and present Fleetwood trawlers. The best information always comes from the people who work or have worked in the fishing industry and the stories those people could tell us would make us smile with the funny antics they have got up to aboard the trawlers or on the dockside. Some stories of loss and unfortunate incidents could also make us sit back and realize how they put their lives on the line so we could all eat.
Steam and Sail Trawlers Contact
webmaster@fleetwood-trawlers.info
administrator@fleetwood-trawlers.info
jpot120@tesco.net
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