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Newhaven fishwives at Craighall Road Station
1915, Photograph
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Newhaven fishwives at Craighall Road Station
Newhaven fishwives at Craighall Road Station
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Item no
22213
Title
Newhaven fishwives at Craighall Road Station
Description
Black and white negative; fair condition. Two Newhaven fishwives in traditional working dress with creels on their backs. On a platform at Craighall Road Station ticket office. There are posters and a clock in background.
Date
1915
Size
5.5 x 5.5 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Museum of Edinburgh
Accession number
Ref 4.72 C158/6.
Newhaven fishwives earned a reputation for being both hardworking and strong. They walked for miles to sell fish to their customers. Some even took the ferry to Fife and, as the railway network expanded, travelled by train both into Edinburgh and further afield.
Here we see two Newhaven fishwives at Craighall Road station, Newhaven. They are wearing the traditional working clothes of navy skirts or 'cots', cloaks, stockings and boots. The creels on their backs have canvas straps, as opposed to the leather ones used elsewhere.
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