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| Keywords: Blackshore, River Blythe, Suffolk, Peter Henry Emerson, 1888.jpg Blackshore River Blythe Suffolk by Peter Henry Emerson from his illustrated book 'Pictures of East Anglian Life' In the book Emerson describes this scene as follows <br><br> This is Blackshore on the River Blythe - Blackshore of which we read that once spacious warehouses were erected on its wharf 'for the stowage of nets and other stores one room of which is capable of holding a thousand tons of salt;' that a dock was made there in 1783 and that in the same year twenty fishing-busses met there for the white-herring fishery It seems this quay was made in James the First's reign and must have been the scene of busy life when Dunwich Walberswick and Southwold were flourishing with their fisheries; but as the greater places fell to nothingness so has this little place proportionately fallen into utter decay British Library 1888 Creator Peter Henry Emerson PD-old http //www bl uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/earlyphotos/b/006zzz0tab443a6u00096000 html Peter Henry Emerson 1888 photographs River Blyth Suffolk Sheep in Suffolk | ||||
