Ruslings and Fish
The Rusling family are a long established East Yorkshire tribe of proud people, most of whom who have lived in the city of Kingston upon Hull for a couple of hundred years.
The family's origins are in the fishing community along Hessle Road; most of the family in the early 1900s were living around The Boulevard, where George Rusling became a fish merchant on the St Andrew's Dock nearby. Our Aunt Hilda was married to a well-known trawler skipper, Edgar Harber and other relatives and most of our friends and neighbours worked in the fishing industry.
At the time Hull was the home port for almost three hundred deep sea trawlers, which fished white fish such as cod, haddock, halibut and skate in the waters around Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland and off the northern coast of Norway and Russia (Barents Sea).
The fleet diminished when the Labour Government gave away the fishing grounds to Iceland and others, decimating Hull's deep sea fleet. Now the all the haddock eaten in the city is flown in from Iceland to an aerodrome in Lincolnshire each night and sold on a fish market in Grimsby!
Ruslings and Fish
The Rusling family are a long established East Yorkshire tribe of proud people, most of whom who have lived in the city of Kingston upon Hull for a couple of hundred years.
The family's origins are in the fishing community along Hessle Road; most of the family in the early 1900s were living around The Boulevard, where George Rusling became a fish merchant on the St Andrew's Dock nearby. Our Aunt Hilda was married to a trawler skipper, Edgar Harber and other relatives and most of our friends and neighbours worked in the fishing industry.
At the time Hull was the home port for almost three hundred deep sea trawlers, which fished white fish such as cod, Haddock and skate in the waters around Iceland, Newfoundland and off the northern coast of Norway and Russia (Barents Sea).
The fleet diminished when the Labour Government gave away the fishing grounds to Iceland and others, decimating Hull's deep sea fleet. Now the all the haddock eaten in the city is flown in from Iceland to an aerodrome in Lincolnshire each night and sold on a fish market in Grimsby!
Ruslings and Fish
The Rusling family are a long established East Yorkshire tribe of proud people, most of whom who have lived in the city of Kingston upon Hull for a couple of hundred years.
The family's origins are in the fishing community along Hessle Road; most of the family in the early 1900s were living around The Boulevard, where George Rusling became a fish merchant on the St Andrew's Dock nearby. Our Aunt Hilda was married to a trawler skipper, Edgar Harber and other relatives and most of our friends and neighbours worked in the fishing industry.
At the time Hull was the home port for almost three hundred deep sea trawlers, which fished white fish such as cod, haddock, halibut and skate in the waters around Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland and off the northern coast of Norway and Russia (Barents Sea).
The fleet diminished when the Labour Government gave away the fishing grounds to Iceland and others, decimating Hull's deep sea fleet. Now the all the haddock eaten in the city is flown in from Iceland to an aerodrome in Lincolnshire each night and sold on a fish market in Grimsby!
