Collection: Brighton Fishing Museum

Collection-level records:

• Collection overview (Cornucopia)

  Maritime

  The collection features a full-size boat, boat models, fishing artefacts and other memorabilia associated with the fishing industry and seafront life from the Regency days to the post-war boom in pleasure boat operations.

  Photographic

  The museum has a large collection of visual images including many photographs, postcards and prints. There is a compilation of late nineteenth and early twentieth century films depicting the Brighton and Sussex sea fishing industry and the associated beach leisure trade (copyright South East Film and Video Archive).

  Oral History

  The museum has a complete copy of the QueenSpark ‘Catching Stories’ oral history archive, comprising audiotapes and transcripts of interviews with members of Brighton’s fishing community.

  Archives

  The museum’s main archive at present comprises some 6400 items of historical record stored on computer and backed up with original material or hard copies. In addition we have copies of many of the registration records of local fishing boats. The original 1891 census of the coastal towns from Shoreham through Brighton to Newhaven, an abstract of the 1881 census of Sussex, and an abstract from the 1851 census of Brighton are all held on microfiche. Census data relating to the fishing community is being posted on a computer and there is also a substantial family history resource available to the public. There is a small but growing library of fishing, maritime, local history, workshop, folk and museum books and periodicals.

  Source: Cornucopia

  Date: Not known, but before 2015

  Licence: CC BY-NC