The Northfolk ProjectNorfolk gansey patterns
Sheringham
Sheringham is renowned for many extremely fine gansey patterns (in both senses of the word 'fine').
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| GP1 | Mr. Cox's seed stitch gansey | Sheringham 1924 |
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| GP2 | Old Charlie Grice's honeycomb gansey | Sheringham 1918 |
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| GP3 | Lotion Tar Bishop's meshes and ladders gansey | Sheringham 1920 - 1929 |
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| GP7 | Old Charlie Grice's hailstones and bars gansey | Sheringham 1918 |
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| GP8 | Latterday Cox's seed panel gansey | Sheringham undated |
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| GP9 | Abraham Cooper's bars and squares gansey | Sheringham undated |
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| GP10 | Bob Craske's plain seed stitch gansey | Sheringham undated |
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| GP11 | Squinter West's machine-knitted gansey | Sheringham undated |
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| GP12 | King Kong Grice's ladders and coil o'rope gansey | Sheringham undated |
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| GP13 | Chicken Grice's diagonal bars and seed stitch gansey | Sheringham 1922 |
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| GP14 | Belsha Johnson's net mask gansey | Sheringham 1914 (c) |
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| GP15 | John Craske's plain seed stitch gansey | Sheringham undated |
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| GP17 | William Noel Barnwell's man's chequerboard gansey | Sheringham 1911 |
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| GP18 | Milker Little's netmask gansey | Sheringham 1923 |
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| GP19 | Belsha Johnson's basket weave pattern | Sheringham undated |
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| GP20 | John Tar Bishop's herringbone gansey | Sheringham undated |
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| GP21 | Robert Pegg's machine-knitted waves or marriage lines | Sheringham undated |
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| GP24 | Belsha Johnson's herringbone and hailstones gansey | Sheringham undated |
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| GP26 | Willie Long's herringone gansey | Sheringham 1927 |
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| GP27 | Buster Long's ladders and meshes gansey | Sheringham undated |
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| GP29 | Old Charlie Grice's plain gansey | Sheringham undated |
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| GP34 | Buck Craske's machine-knitted gansey | Sheringham undated |
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| GP35 | George Salter Farrow's plain gansey | Sheringham undated |
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| GP36 | Old Charlie Grice's hailstones and meshes gansey | Sheringham undated |
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| GP38 | John Tar Bishop's diamonds and chevrons gansey | Sheringham undated |
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| GP39 | Esther Nurse's open meshes and hoop nets pattern | Sheringham undated |
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| GP40 | Obadiah Cooper's meshes and ladder stitch gansey | Sheringham undated |
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| GP41 | Jimmy Coalie Cooper's herringbone and moss stitch gansey | Sheringham undated |
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| GP45 | Henry Little's coil o' rope and diagonal bars gansey | Sheringham undated |
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| GP46 | Henry Little's meshes and diagonal bars gansey | Sheringham undated |
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| GP47 | Edie Middleton knitted for Strangers' Hall | Sheringham 1956 |
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| GP48 | Jimmy Chibbles Bishop's herringbone gansey | Sheringham 1930-1949 |
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| GP49 | Jimmy Chibbles Bishop's small cables gansey | Sheringham 1930-1949 |
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| GP50 | Jimmy Paris' lightning and hailstones gansey | Sheringham undated |
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| GP51 | Sparrow Hardingham's gansey | Sheringham 1920 - 1930 |
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Above is a superb studio photograph by Hellis and Sons, a firm of London photographers who had studios around the country. It shows twelve Sheringham fishermen round about 1900 to 1910 apparently at the studios in the fishing port Great Grimsby in Lincolnshire. It seesm to represent the crews of several 'great boats' from Sheringham who would go there 'in the season' to land their catch. Numbers mentioned below are from back row left to front row right. The machine made gansey #2 could have been purchased at the Cosalt depot in Beeston Road but the others are hand knitted. Are they all Sheringham-made ganseys or were some purchased from commercial knitters? For example GP58 and GP59 do not appear typical of Sheringham and even the netmasks GP57 and GP60 are generic.
| GP52 | Sheringham fisherman #1 Jack Martins' net mask and herringbone gansey | Sheringham 1900 (c) |
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| GP53 | Sheringham fisherman #2 George "Salter" Farrow's machine made gansey | Sheringham 1900 (c) |
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| GP54 | Sheringham fisherman #3 Billy West's double meshes and hailstones gansey | Sheringham 1900 (c) |
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| GP55 | Sheringham fisherman #4 (a Little?) bars and hailstones gansey | Sheringham 1900 (c) |
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| GP56 | Sheringham fisherman #5 lightning and hailstones gansey | Sheringham 1900 (c) |
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| GP57 | Sheringham fisherman #6 "Alma" West's net mask gansey | Sheringham 1900 - 1910 (c) |
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| GP58 | Sheringham fisherman #7 Potter Hardingham's chevron and Betty Martin panels gansey | Sheringham 1900 (c) |
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| GP59 | Sheringham fisherman #8 Old Charlie Grice's big diamonds gansey | Sheringham 1900 (c) |
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| GP60 | Sheringham fisherman #9 Rook Reynolds net mask gansey | Sheringham 1900 (c) |
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| GP61 | Sheringham fisherman #10 Jacob Martins' net mask and herringbone gansey | Sheringham 1900 (c) |
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| GP62 | Sheringham fisherman #11 "Chicken" Grice's gansey | Sheringham 1900 (c) |
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| GP63 | Sheringham fisherman #12 "King Kong" Grice's gansey | Sheringham 1900 (c) |
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| GP65 | Willie Long's diagonal bars and Betty Martin gansey | Sheringham 1910 (c) |
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| GP66 | Bob Fields' meshes and Betty Martin gansey | Sheringham 1900-1910 (c) |
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| GP67 | Buster Long's chevrons and Betty Martin gansey | Sheringham 1900-1910 (c) |
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| GP68 | Robert "Dowsey" Little's gansey | Sheringham 1900-1910 (c) |
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| GP73 | Harry "Duncan" Cooper's gansey | Sheringham 1940-1960 (c) |
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