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The importance of oysters to the tradition of Whitstable is celebrated with the Oyster Festival in July each year. The nine-day festival starts with an opening parade on the nearest Saturday to St James' Day. The parade starts with the official "Landing of the Catch", followed by the procession of the oysters in a horse-drawn dray through the ...
Landing of the Oysters on the first day of the Whitstable Oyster Festival 2007. The Whitstable Oyster Festival is an annual event held in Whitstable, Kent, England, each year to celebrate the town's links with the oyster industry. [1]
Whitstable Museum is a heritage centre in Whitstable, Kent, with Invicta, one of the world's oldest steam engines, the history of the local oyster trade and historical diving equipment. History [ edit ]
Whitstable, England Storage pits of the Whitstable Company; Sorting the Oysters. Oysters are also reared in Loch Fyne, Argyll and Bute by the Loch Fyne Oysters company. Another company, Scot-Hatch, grow scallops in the waters of Loch Ewe, but they are all sent to Norway for spawning. [55] The company produced 750,000 scallops in 2012. [56]
[5]. Galway International Oyster Festival, is deemed the oldest international oyster festival in the world and takes place on the last weekend of September each year.Galway, on the west coast of Ireland is the only place in Ireland when you can get native flat Galway Oysters in natural wild oyster beds.
Whitstable Harbour railway station; Whitstable Lifeboat Station; Whitstable Museum and Gallery; Whitstable Oyster Festival; Whitstable railway station; Whitstable Town F.C. All Saints Church, Whitstable; Great Fire of Whitstable, 1869
Seasalter is a village (and district council ward) in the Canterbury district of Kent, England.Seasalter is on the north coast of Kent, between the towns of Whitstable and Faversham, facing the Isle of Sheppey across the estuary of the River Swale.
Hampton-on-Sea is a drowned and abandoned village in what is now the Hampton area of Herne Bay, Kent.It grew from a tiny fishing hamlet in 1864 at the hands of an oyster fishery company, was developed from 1879 by land agents, abandoned in 1916 and finally drowned due to coastal erosion by 1921.