Fascinating for the other stories and adverts of the era too, this newspaper article focuses on the ancient art of haaf netting in the Solway – the history, technique, the people and stories, the rewards and the dangers…
Thank you to Tom Brown for sharing Ian Hamilton Junior’s collection with us.
Click on the link below – it will take you to the pdf file we’ve made of the newspaper page, so you can zoom in and out to your heart’s desire!
[It may take a few extra moments to load (especially with our local internet) as its a large full page file. In old newspaper sizes!]