Glimpses of Old Peel - by Fred Palmer

Glimpses of Old Peel
By Fred Palmer

"In this book I try and cover all the things that have been left out of my previous books. It covers an outline of the history of Peel and gives details of the many customs associated with the fishing - all of these are extinct as the herring fishing has become a dead business, with only two Irish boats supplying the kipper curers. No longer do we see 80 to 100 boats from Scotland and Ireland fishing for herring during the summer months, and crowding Peel harbour.

I also cover the Kinsale mackerel fishing, when the Peel fleet was at its peak, a large fleet of first-class boats and 2,000 men and boys went fishing.

The development of Peel as a tourist centre is shown when the fishing industry failed, the building of the harbour and breakwater, the building of Peel railway station and the Marine Parade.

In addition there are stories of Peel in the 1790s and many old tales of Peel as related by both natives and visitors, told in their own manner."
Fred Palmer, Peel, 1993

"He who fails to investigate the past is unfit to inherit the future"

(Comment on Leece Museum by a visitor from New Zealand)

Those who have been fortunate enough to read Fred Palmer's first two books, Peel One and Peel Two, will find the present volume equally absorbing.
Eddie Leece, Founder, Leece Museum

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