Oystertown » lithograph http://www.oystertown.net Whitstable and its people Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:22:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 1882 – Oyster dredging at Whitstable http://www.oystertown.net/1875-1899/1882-oyster-dredging-at-whitstable/ http://www.oystertown.net/1875-1899/1882-oyster-dredging-at-whitstable/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:54:21 +0000 admin http://www.oystertown.net/?page_id=593 It is said that a picture paints a thousand words and this is particularly true of this picture.

Printed in the Illustrated London News of May 12th 1882 in the series ‘Our Fishing Industries’ and headed ‘Oyster Dredging at Whitstable’, it gives us a fairly accurate representation of the industry at that time.

Perhaps as relevant is

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What is undeniably true is that a large area from Sea Street along to the Harbour, all coal tar pitched wooden clad buildings, were destroyed. The only picture

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