Past & Present: Fishing (colour litho)

Fishing. Fishing from a Coracle. This primitive boat was in use among the Britons at the time of Caesar's invasion, and is still employed on the Severn, Towy, Teifi, and other Welsh rivers. It is a light oval craft, made of canvas stretched over a framework of interwoven rods, the whole rendered water-tight by a coating of tar or pitch. The ancient coracles were covered with horse or bullock hide. Modern Steam Carrier. The old-fashioned but picturesque sailing craft are rapidly giving place to steam drifters. The fish, packed in boxes with salt and ice, are taken in the trawlers' boats or dories to the steam carrier, which is waiting, with steam up, to carry to market the silver harvest of the sea. Illustration for one of a set of cigarette cards on the subject of Past & Present issued by Wills in 1929.