In three years of extensive research in the early 1980s, the authors spoke to some of the oldest inhabitants of Filey, and looked at numerous written records. The fruits of this work appeared in 1985 as Filey: a Yorkshire Fishing Town, and sold several thousand copies. The book has been out of print for over 30 years. The focus was then on the Jenkinson family, to whom virtually everybody in the Old Town was related, and featured an extensive fold-out pedigree chart. In a further three years of research, Andrew Todd has now completely revised and expanded the original text, focusing now on all the Filey fishing families of the last two centuries. This 2021 edition includes a greatly enlarged series of family tree charts, featuring the Jenkinson family as a spine, and showing connections with all the town’s historic fishing families. A further enhancement of the 1985 edition is the inclusion of 171 historical photographs, many unpublished to date, 22 diagrams and 12 maps.The book is dedicated to Irene’s memory; to Irene and Andrew’s children, Isabella, Christopher, Hannah and Eleanor; and to their infinity of Filey relatives, past, present and future.In three years of extensive research in the early 1980s, the authors spoke to some of the oldest inhabitants of Filey, and looked at numerous written records. The fruits of this work appeared in 1985 as Filey: a Yorkshire Fishing Town, and sold several thousand copies. The book has been out of print for over 30 years. The focus was then on the Jenkinson family, to whom virtually everybody in the Old Town was related, and featured an extensive fold-out pedigree chart. In a further three years of research, Andrew Todd has now completely revised and expanded the original text, focusing now on all the Filey fishing families of the last two centuries. This 2021 edition includes a greatly enlarged series of family tree charts, featuring the Jenkinson family as a spine, and showing connections with all the town’s historic fishing families. A further enhancement of the 1985 edition is the inclusion of 171 historical photographs, many unpublished to date, 22 diagrams and 12 maps.
