Billingsgate Fish Market

I am not averse from a bit of fish myself, but to be professionally connected with a firm that handles the material in the raw is not my idea of a large life work.

Remind me to tell you sometime what it feels like to sling yourself out of bed at 4 a.m. and go down to toil and Billingsgate Market.

No, there is money in fish.

My uncle has made a pot of it.

It nauseated my finer feelings.

It got right in amongst my fibers.

I had to rise and partake of a simple breakfast at about four in the morning, after which I would make my way to Billingsgate Market and stand for some hours knee-deep in dead fish of every description.

A jolly life for a cat, no doubt, but a bit too thick for a Shropshire P. Smith.

But the French didn't win the war for North America, so we don't speak about them as much as we do about the English because they wrote the story.

Yes, and also Wellfleet was originally called Billingsgate, is that correct? It had a couple of names.

It was

called Billingsgate after London's fish market.

It was also going to be called Poole for a while, and that didn't last very long.

Named after another English town.

But so these things get wiped out, and then seed gets brought in from Chesapeake Bay.

That's exactly right.

I am not averse from a bit of fish myself, but to be professionally connected with a firm that handles the material in the raw is not my idea of a large life work.

Remind me to tell you sometime what it feels like to sling yourself out of bed at 4 a.m. and go down to Toil and Billingsgate Market.

No, there is money in fish.

My uncle has made a pot of it.

It nauseated my finer feelings.

It got right in amongst my fibers.

I had to rise and partake of a simple breakfast at about four in the morning, after which I would make my way to Billingsgate Market and stand for some hours knee-deep in dead fish of every description.

A jolly life for a cat, no doubt, but a bit too thick for a Shropshire P. Smith.

So it's a massive history, it's a really interesting history, and there's a massive link to the railway.

Because now you have situations where salmon caught in West Kerry could be at Billingsgate Market in London the following morning via the railway and indeed the sea route.

And we're delighted to say that the Wexford Model Railway Club will also form part of our exhibition with Model Railway's Killinick Station.

People might know there was a railway station at Killinick Station, which was known as Orristown Junction in the beginning.