Quote Originally Posted by gregs dad View Post
Came across this photo in the Liverpool Record office,this shows my older
brother John Neary mending his fishing nets on the "Cockle Hole"
slipway opposite Cammel Lairds. It was taken by E. Chambre hardman in 1958.He was supposed to be liverpool`s last fulltime fisherman.
He wasn't, Mr Oxton, a neighbour was. He operated from the Cockle Hole until the 1970s. He would sail to Angelsey as the river was too polluted to sustain edible fish. We would buy flukes from him. He kept them in an old washing machine filled with water. Superb!!!

The Echo had a piece on him once.