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4/4 Andrew and Kane outside the baiting sheds |
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Baiting sheds
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In Scarborough, on the quay, just behind the fish market, there's a line of low brick buildings. Back in the days when Scarborough was a thriving fishing port there would be families in these sheds, gathered together before dawn, baiting the lines and preparing the next day's gear while the men toiled at sea chasing the cod that came inshore during the wintertime.
Most of these baiting sheds are empty now, abandoned when the cod went, but a couple of them have just reopened. They've been rented by two artists who've begun documenting, in sketches and paintings, the ways Scarborough's changed.
Ken Cooper went to talk to them, and to some of the remaining fishermen whose families have worked in Scarborough 's baiting sheds for generations.
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