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Preparing Bait
1900, Photograph
Preparing Bait
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Item no
23724
Title
Preparing Bait
Description
Two women and a man are gathered outside a house in Newhaven in Edinburgh and are baiting fishing lines. The older woman is seated at the bottom of a flight of stone steps. The elderly man who has a beard and wears a hat, is leaning over as he works. A younger woman stands between them and is carrying two large creels on her back.
Photograph reproduced by permission of Mrs J. Christie, copyright Forth Photography.
Date
1900
Size
9.3 x 12.8 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Museum of Edinburgh
Accession number
C15718
Originally, nets were made from natural materials such as hemp and cotton, which were dipped in boiling solutions of cutch (bark), alum and tar to preserve them. This process was done in large vats in Newhaven's Fisherman's Park. From the 1950s, man-made materials were used for fishing nets which would be resistant to the rotting effects of salt water. From the 1960s, plastic nets were introduced. Fishermen spread their nets out in the in park to dry them. Work in a net factory was popular because it ensured a reliable wage.
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Newhaven: That was then, this is now
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