Fishing light let every year
Once again the fishing light has gone out on Clovelly Quay at the end of another herring season – and a disappointing season it has been.
The light, which stands at the end of Clovelly pier, has been lit during the herring season from September 1st to January 1st every year since it was erected in 1883 with the exception of the war years. A brass plate records – ‘This light is erected by Neville Hamlyn Fane to the memory of Richard Harris and James Jewell who were drowned during the great gale of the sixth December, 1882.’ The two men were Clovelly herring fishermen who were unable to regain the shelter of the harbour that night over seventy years ago.
Gazette article 25 January 1957