Norfolk gansey patterns

Cromer

The majority of Cromer fishermen wore commercially produced ganseys from chandlers and outfitters such as the Coal Salt and Tannin Company, either hand-knitted or machine-knitted. But there are a few such as Henry Blogg who sported more interesting patterns but I do not know ehere he obtained that example (GP6 below). I have been criticised for saying that Cromer did not really have a gansey knitting tradition, Some ganseys were knitted in the town, it is true, but some of the fishermen also went elsewhere, such as Sheringham, Caister and further afield to get theirs. Reggie Jonas, for instance, bought his quite plain ribbed commercial ganseys from Cornwall in the 1970s. I have met only one Cromer knitter and recorded her - Edith Kerr, daughter of fishermen and lifeboatman, Walter 'Primo' Allen, but she had a construction technique all of her own and spent much of her life in Glasgow. An example of her work survives in Sheringham Museum. She knitted ganseys for several local fishermen and for Dr Barclay, the GP and doctor for the lifeboat. The Davies family knitted a few too.

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GP16	Walter? Allen's machine-knitted gansey	Cromer undated	Norfolk Museums Service (Cromer Museum)	No chart
GP6	George Blogg's machine knitted gansey	Cromer 1909	Norfolk Museums Service (Cromer Museum)	No chart
GP5	Henry Blogg's seeds and coil o'rope gansey	Cromer undated	Norfolk Museums Service (Cromer Museum)
GP32	Billy Harrison's machine-knitted gansey	Cromer undated	Norfolk Museums Service (Cromer Museum)	No chart
GP22	John Harrison's plain machine-knitted gansey	Cromer undated	Norfolk Museums Service (Cromer Museum)	No chart
GP4	Tom Kirby's seed panel gansey	Cromer undated	Norfolk Museums Service (Cromer Museum)
GP28	Kite Rix's machine-knitted gansey	Cromer undated	Norfolk Museums Service (Cromer Museum)	No chart
GP31	Gilbert Rook's seeds and bars gansey	Cromer About 1880-1900 7 spi (estimated)	Norfolk Museums Service (Cromer Museum)
GP30	Robert Warner's button-up woollen jerkin	Cromer undated	Norfolk Museums Service (Cromer Museum)	No chart
GP64	Cromer seed stitch gansey	Cromer undated