Bob Bell recalls moving to the deep West Somerset countryside many many years ago
Martin Hesp
All tagged Minehead
Bob Bell recalls moving to the deep West Somerset countryside many many years ago
A century ago local families would buy 100 herrings for six old pence (2.5pence) to salt down for the winter. But catches gradually declined and during the 1970s the herring all but disappeared, with the blame laid on over-fishing in the Atlantic and North Sea.