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Winter 2014/2015 Programme of Events
All talks are at 7 pm in the conference room, Evron Centre, 58 John Street, Filey, North Yorkshire YO14 9DQ. Download leaflet here: - FBI_Leaflet_WINTER14_15
Thursday October 16, 2014
The Wolds Waggoners
– a volunteer corps of local farm workers who used wagons to supply the trenches [...]
Our ‘Ow’t for Now’t ‘ event proved popular on 1st August with our Yorkshire visitors, as Discover Filey volunteers showed passing visitors trays of edible seaweed and shellfish that can be found locally. We must admit to a certain ‘tongue in cheek’ approach to our local seafood cuisine and our emphasis is always on conservation [...]
Continue Reading →The above Video shows a Filey Motor Coble, launching and retrieval in 2005. Since then the numbers of Coble’s have declined and there are now less than a handful. It is almost impossible to imagine Filey without its Cobles. Every year thousands of Visitors gather to watch them return with their catch. Hundreds of [...]
Continue Reading →These concept educational drawings by G. Briggs, show the four main stages of building a small salmon coble. Construction techniques may vary but the drawings were taken from live observations as a build progressed.
First the keel known as a ‘ram” and stem is laid [...]
Continue Reading →The artists impression above by local artist G Briggs shows a Filey ‘Flither’ Girl with two baskets of bait. On the right of the picture is a fishermen baiting up hooks on a ‘longline‘ which was used to catch cod and other fish. Longlines were laid across the best [...]
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