Peter Henry Emerson
1888
Blackshore, River Blythe, Suffolk
[Pictures of East Anglian Life]

Photographic print
British Library
Shelfmark: Tab.443.a.6, Item number: 96
 
Peter Henry Emerson, Pictures of East Anglian Life, (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1888) [Illustrated with 32 photogravures and 15 small half-tones in Collotype]
 
"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…"
 
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