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- Collection: Appendix C: Economic Context
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Primary Text: The housekeeper's guide to the fish market for each month of the year : and some account of fish and fisheries, to which are added a few excellent recipes for cooking some sorts of fish: Preface
An 1883 "Housekeeper's Guide" to navigating the local fish markets and the seasonality of various fish in the British Isles. The full text contains seasonal calendars and a variety of recipes for the most common fish.
How the Old St. Ives Pilchard Seines Worked
A graphic showing how the St. Ives fishermen employed "seines" to bring in catches of pilchards.
Tucking a Pilchard Seine
A photograph of St. Ives fishermen using seine nets to catch pilchards.
Edwardian Maids
A group of Edwardian Maids in servants' dress in 1907.
Godvrey Lighthouse Postcard
Old Photochrome postcard probably before 1920
Primary Source: The Management of Servants: A Practical Guide to the Routine of Domestic Service, Chapter 1: Introduction
Introduction to the manual for households employing domestic servants. Entire manual contains further reading chapters on categories such as "Households: Their Various Scales," "Engaging and Dismissing Servants," and "Opening the Door, and Announcing…
Cornish Fishermen
A photograph of local fishermen in Sennen Cove, Cornwall.
Trinity House Collects Lighthouse Dues
After 1836, Trinity House was resonsible for collecting lighthouse dues and sending them to the House of Commons to be used in lighthouse upkeep and keeper wages.
The Wreck of the Nile
A newspaper article explaining how the steamboat Nile was wrecked near Godrevy Island and the coast of Cornwall, prompting Trinity House to build a lighthouse there.
Tourism in Cornwall
Newspaper article from 1929 discussing the tourism industry of Cornwall and the changes in accesibility taking place after the way.