Mending The Nets, The National Fishing Heritage Centre, Grimsby, 04/04/15.

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Fishing, fishing industry, fishing nets, flat cap, Grimsby, Industrial Heritage, Museums, National Fishing Heritage Centre

Photo Archive: Failing To Photograph The Duchess of Cambridge, The National Fishing Heritage Centre, Grimsby, 2013.

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British Monarchy, cameras, crowds, Duchess of Cambridge, Fog, Grimsby, National Fishing Heritage Centre, photographers, Photography, Ross Tiger, Royal Family, trawler

Sometimes you blink and you miss something; this was one of these occasions! By the time I had lifted my camera Her Royal Highness had gone, but I was left with some photographs I was very pleased with. Here are five of the best:

1. The Ross Tiger in the fog. It’s a miracle the fog cleared enough for me to photograph anything!

2. The professionals arriving.

3. These delightful young people seemed to think I was from the local paper. I told them I wasn’t , but they didn’t mind having their photograph taken anyway!

4. If only I’d thought to bring some ladders with me (or somebody who’d let me sit on their shoulders)!

5. At the windows of the National Fishing Heritage Centre.

Photo Archive: “An early Mariner”, National Fishing Heritage Centre, Grimsby, c.2007.

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football., Grimsby, Grimsby Town FC, moustache, National Fishing Heritage Centre, Sporting History, The Mariners

The Mariner.

I don’t remember the National Fishing Heritage Centre having a permanent Grimsby Town Football Club display, so this must have been part of a temporary exhibition I went to see. I don’t know much about the club’s history, but these early players lack the vertical black and white stripes that characterise the more modern team shirts. These early players also wear the arms of Great Grimsby as their team emblem (the more modern emblems features a complicated design incorporating vertical black and white stripes, a fishing trawler and three fish).