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Fred Normandale remembers when his hometown of Scarborough was one of the great centres for the fishing industry and had the characters to match. He has turned his memories into a nostalgic book full of tales of his life and adventures at sea. “I grew up in the ‘bottom end’ of Scarborough among some wonderful characters, big men with big hearts. The fishermen were extremely hard working and when ashore, mostly hard drinking, though never mixing the two pursuits. I thought this was a normal background, that everyone lived in a world such as mine. I couldn’t have been more wrong’ life around the harbour was unique.” 

Review: A very entertaining account of the early life of a Scarborough trawlerman. Fred is a natural storyteller, who describes life as it was without artifice, but with an easy fluency that makes the book a very enjoyable read. It’s a fascinating glimpse into a lifestyle which has almost completely disappeared, laced with frequent funny stories – not all politically correct – which speak volumes about attitudes to life as it was lived.