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Going To Plan

The ‘Trawling Through Time’ project secures the permanent preservation of its digitised trawler plans.

Ships Log

The Catalogue Is Online One of the main goals of the Trawling Through Time project since the very beginning, way back in April 2018, was to produce an online finding aid for the Cook, Welton & Gemmell archive, that would allow researchers to discover what we hold in the collection and request to see items […]

Big Screen Preview

Unlocking an Archive, To Tell A Story… On Friday 16th August the project tv documentary will receive its big screen preview at Parkway Cinema, Beverley, before it airs on That’s TV Humber later in the year. ‘Trawling Through Time: The Story Of Cook, Welton & Gemmell’ begins at 7pm and admission is just £2! (Please […]

Making a ‘Splash’ on The Yorkshire Belle

Volunteers Week 2019 Monday 3rd June saw the start of Volunteers Week 2019, and so what better way to celebrate the contribution of our own volunteers on the ‘Trawling Through Time’ project than with a specially chartered trip on the pleasure cruiser (and local icon) the ‘Yorkshire Belle’ ! ‘Why the Yorkshire Belle?’, you may […]

The Legacy Begins

Exhibition and Stage From the outset, one of the central goals of the ‘Trawling Through Time’ project was to create a legacy that educates mainstream audiences about the story of Cook, Welton & Gemmell, so that its heritage is allowed to continue and thrive beyond the lifespan of our own project. It’s always difficult to […]

From Paper to Pixels

The Plans Go Digital! (See example plans of historic ships now in our Vessels gallery) Technically speaking, most of the general arrangement plans in our Cook, Welton & Gemmell archive are actually made from tracing cloth rather than paper, but hopefully you get the idea – our volunteers have succeeded in converting original hard copies […]