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Marine Hotel, Pier Place, Newhaven
Unknown, 1971, Photograph
Marine Hotel, Pier Place, Newhaven
Marine Hotel, Pier Place, Newhaven
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Item no
21480
Title
Marine Hotel, Pier Place, Newhaven
Description
The dilapidated buildings of the Marine Hotel stand on Pier Place, Newhaven. The building has many broken windows and some have also been boarded or bricked up. Newspapers litter the steps leading up to the entrance and graffiti has been written on the walls. To the left of the hotel is a boarded up antiques shop.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1971
Size
15 x 25.4 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Newhaven was founded in 1504 as a royal dockyard by James IV. It became an important fishing village, famous initially for oysters and later herring. An indoor fishmarket was built there in 1896. Newhaven fishwives, with their distinctive striped clothes, sold their goods around Edinburgh. David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson famously photographed these fishwives and other newhaven residents in the 1840's. The area now has a population of roughly 5000.
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