People & Patterns
This area of the site features the stories of the families behind the Ganseys, and includes downloadable PDFs of the gansey patterns we have digitised. The reasearch has been done by the East Anglian Gansey Group, with Sheringham Museum and the Martin Warren Collection. Click on the articles below to read more.
If you have information on any ganseys you don’t think we have, please do get in touch and let us know.
This is a growing collection we are gradually uploading to the site, call back soon!
Billy West (SMGP54)
Robert 'Billy' West (SMGP54) There are three men named William West living in Sheringham who are around the same age, so the man in the photograph could be any one of them. Billy West no.1: Early life and marriage William Robert West was born in 1877, the son of...
George ‘Salter’ Farrow (SMGP53)
George ‘Salter’ Farrow Early life George Farrow was born in October 1871, the son of George Farrow, a fisherman, and Celia Farrow, née Wright. He had several siblings: Mary, Walter, Frederick, Charles and William. In 1881, the family was living in the West End of...
John Benjamin Martins (SMGP52)
This photograph of Sheringham fishermen wearing ganseys was taken by Hellis and Sons around 1901. Sheringham Museum Trust holds two mounted enlarged copies of the group image. It is a studio portrait showing the men posed standing and seated, dressed in their ‘Sunday...