Yorkshire’s fishermen’s choirs sing on amid ‘dwindling’ numbers

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Grace Shaw/BBC Group of 10 of the 14 men who make up Filey Fisherman's Choir which meets at Filey Methodist Church every Saturday evening. The men in the picture are mostly wearing navy fisherman's ganseys. There is a piano in front with music for various sea-related hymns.Grace Shaw/BBC

Francis Appleby (front right) has been a member of Filey Fisherman’s Choir since the mid-1970s

On a rainy December night in a little room above Filey Methodist Church, 10 members of Filey Fishermen’s Choir rehearse for the annual…

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