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Hauling the nets on a 1930s steam drifter

Reel History is in Great Yarmouth, once home to the world's largest herring fleet, to look back to the heyday of British fishing.

87 year old Ronnie King tells Melvyn Bragg about first going to sea in a steam drifter in 1937.

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Reel History of BritainThe Glory Days of Fishing

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