justine
19-Mar-08, 18:05
I have just been typing up my daughters project and have decided to ask for some opinions on this...please read and let me know what you think..I thinks this is a good piece of work..
Did the Fishing Industry only benefit Wick
The british Fishing Industry had three main aims for the Islands and Highlands of Scotland, to improve fishng farming and other industires.To provide jobs and to stop people emigrating from the Highlands.
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Society hoped to do this by setting up fishing Industries around the coast...Thomas Telford turned down Helmsdale and Brora as a possible fishing industry area..Thomas suggested that Wick had a very good harbour which should be developed. This helped with the ideas that he had for the fishing industry itself...
The fishing industry brought many jobs to the area, and other than the fishing industry itself brought other jobs for the people...In wick alone there were
436 fishermen and 88 boats sitting in the harbour...Along with the Coopers, who were needed make the barrels for the fish to be stored in...A total of 70 were employed....The women that were employed mainly gutted the fish and then packed them away in the barrels...586 in total to gut and pack the hugh amounts of fish that were being brought in...
The fish were sold by people employed for the job.239 sellers were employed...
The fishing also brought the boat builders to wick,they had te task of building the boats to keep the industry alive..Around 87 boat builders were employed and started to build their boats...Amongst all the boat builders were different tradesmen, some to build the sails, the ropes that help the sail and rigging in place...Some were employed by the saw mills to chop the wood for making the barrels....
other types of jobs that were being done aswell as the boats and fishing, wee the Barley mill workers, brewery workers and stonemasons for making the flagstones for easy access to the harbour...All these jobs are done for the sake of the fishing industry, to keep people in the highlands and let them make an honest living....
By 1811 the Fishing Industry had made alot of improvements to Wick including a new bridge across the Harbour and more work was done on the Inner harbour...Alltogether it cost them 14.000 pounds, which in 1811 was a considerable amount of money...The population of Wick increased alot in that time
Population of Pulteneytown
1813 300
1814 400
1818 852
1819 1174
1879 2200
which created more jobs, more people and more families...
The one problem was that with all the benefits there came drawbacks..
Firstly there was the problem of overcrowding,during the fishing season (july-september)...Wick was overcrowded as 10.000 people came from places like Sutherland, The Western Isles, Orkney, Moray coast and even the Highland crofters got involved....The housing was inadequate to hold this amount of people and sometimes there were up to 12 people sharing a small room...
The working conditions wee terrible...It was hazardous and dangerous and many people caught Cholera..The people caught this by injesting contaminated food or water...People did start to move away after the outbreaks for safety reasons, which is when the numbers started to decline...
Cholera was caught from eachother, and was spread due to the overcrowding, dirty condidtions, contaminated food and water.
not only did they ahve to put up with Cholera but had whooping cough,pleurisy, fevers...19 people died of Cholera and many were ill for over a month....
The conditions of the streets were appauling...the worst known street was breadlebane terrace...They had no sanitary sistems and their muck was just thrown into the streets...People were falling ill all the time...
Pulteneytown commitee decided the only way to get the streets clean was to fine the people caught throwing their muck into the streets..This seemed to work and the streets started to look cleaner...When the muck was scraped of the roads, it would leave holes, which had to be filled in with stonechips and tar...
Crime also started to be a problems in Wick..this included poaching, fraud, theft, rioting and assults...Alcohol was becoming a big problem, which also led to many of the crimes listed...At one point the fenses at the john o'groats journal offices were demolished by rioters....
The fishing industry brought to wick many problems along with the benefits it brought....
One the good side it brought was jobs
the bad side was the illness and crime.so the overall efforts for the fishing industry brought good and bad to wick....
Did the Fishing Industry only benefit Wick
The british Fishing Industry had three main aims for the Islands and Highlands of Scotland, to improve fishng farming and other industires.To provide jobs and to stop people emigrating from the Highlands.
..
Society hoped to do this by setting up fishing Industries around the coast...Thomas Telford turned down Helmsdale and Brora as a possible fishing industry area..Thomas suggested that Wick had a very good harbour which should be developed. This helped with the ideas that he had for the fishing industry itself...
The fishing industry brought many jobs to the area, and other than the fishing industry itself brought other jobs for the people...In wick alone there were
436 fishermen and 88 boats sitting in the harbour...Along with the Coopers, who were needed make the barrels for the fish to be stored in...A total of 70 were employed....The women that were employed mainly gutted the fish and then packed them away in the barrels...586 in total to gut and pack the hugh amounts of fish that were being brought in...
The fish were sold by people employed for the job.239 sellers were employed...
The fishing also brought the boat builders to wick,they had te task of building the boats to keep the industry alive..Around 87 boat builders were employed and started to build their boats...Amongst all the boat builders were different tradesmen, some to build the sails, the ropes that help the sail and rigging in place...Some were employed by the saw mills to chop the wood for making the barrels....
other types of jobs that were being done aswell as the boats and fishing, wee the Barley mill workers, brewery workers and stonemasons for making the flagstones for easy access to the harbour...All these jobs are done for the sake of the fishing industry, to keep people in the highlands and let them make an honest living....
By 1811 the Fishing Industry had made alot of improvements to Wick including a new bridge across the Harbour and more work was done on the Inner harbour...Alltogether it cost them 14.000 pounds, which in 1811 was a considerable amount of money...The population of Wick increased alot in that time
Population of Pulteneytown
1813 300
1814 400
1818 852
1819 1174
1879 2200
which created more jobs, more people and more families...
The one problem was that with all the benefits there came drawbacks..
Firstly there was the problem of overcrowding,during the fishing season (july-september)...Wick was overcrowded as 10.000 people came from places like Sutherland, The Western Isles, Orkney, Moray coast and even the Highland crofters got involved....The housing was inadequate to hold this amount of people and sometimes there were up to 12 people sharing a small room...
The working conditions wee terrible...It was hazardous and dangerous and many people caught Cholera..The people caught this by injesting contaminated food or water...People did start to move away after the outbreaks for safety reasons, which is when the numbers started to decline...
Cholera was caught from eachother, and was spread due to the overcrowding, dirty condidtions, contaminated food and water.
not only did they ahve to put up with Cholera but had whooping cough,pleurisy, fevers...19 people died of Cholera and many were ill for over a month....
The conditions of the streets were appauling...the worst known street was breadlebane terrace...They had no sanitary sistems and their muck was just thrown into the streets...People were falling ill all the time...
Pulteneytown commitee decided the only way to get the streets clean was to fine the people caught throwing their muck into the streets..This seemed to work and the streets started to look cleaner...When the muck was scraped of the roads, it would leave holes, which had to be filled in with stonechips and tar...
Crime also started to be a problems in Wick..this included poaching, fraud, theft, rioting and assults...Alcohol was becoming a big problem, which also led to many of the crimes listed...At one point the fenses at the john o'groats journal offices were demolished by rioters....
The fishing industry brought to wick many problems along with the benefits it brought....
One the good side it brought was jobs
the bad side was the illness and crime.so the overall efforts for the fishing industry brought good and bad to wick....