Cullercoats
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Cullercoats is a coastal village in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. Historically in Northumberland, it has now been absorbed into the wider Tyneside conurbation, si
View of Cullercoats Bay from the north. The spire of St George's, Cullercoats is visible top right. Bottom right is the lifeboat station.
Cullercoats from the South by John Wilson Carmichael, 1845
Simpson Street, June 2001
Winslow Homer, Hark! The Lark, 1882 (Milwaukee Art Museum)
Fishwife
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A fishwife, fish-fag or fishlass is a woman who sells fish. She is typically the wife of a fisherman, selling her husband's catch, but other sources of fish have been used.
Cullercoats
…and merged with Tynemouth. In 1901 the parish had a population of 1743. It is now in the unparished area of Tynemouth. William Finden noted that the fishwives (wives and daughters of the fishermen) searched for the bait, digging sand-worms, gathering mussels or seeking limpets and dog-crabs. They also assisted…
Detail of a Cullercoats fishlass, from Inside the Bar, by Winslow Homer 1883
Fishwives in St Andrews, Scotland bait their lines
Fishwife (1940), Gammel Strand, Copenhagen
Statue of the Nairn Fishwife