mackerel-and

Updated: May 7, 2025

Here Kingsley spent most of his boyhood, and hither flock the artists to paint odd pictures for almost every British art-exhibition. Its little pier was built in Richard II.'s time, when as now it was a landing-place for the mackerel-and herring-boats. This quay has recently been somewhat enlarged.

Joel Cook - England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel