Statues of a close group of herring girls who are depicted gutting herrings. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a huge fishing fleet followed the shoals of herrings along this coast. The herring girls followed the fleet by train, ready wherever it came in to gut and pack the fish. Tough, independent women, they worked in teams of three, two gutting the fish as a third packed them into barrels. One of the nine sculptures of the Whitby Sculpture Trail.

Object description
Type: Sculpture
Location: Khyber Pass, Whitby, North Yorkshire
Material: Galvanised steel wire
Artist: Emma Stothard (b.1971)
Date: 2020-21

Image Details
Date: 15 September 2026
Camera body: Nikon D50
Lens: Nikkor AF-S DX 18-55mm ƒ3.5-5.6G ED
Focal Length: 46mm
Aperture: ƒ/5.3
Shutter Speed: 1/800s
ISO: 400
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International