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Newhaven Fishwife
Unknown, 1950, Postcard
Newhaven Fishwife
Newhaven Fishwife
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Item no
38502
Title
Page from Leith Miscellany, volume XIII
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Unknown
Date
1950
Size
11.5 x 9.1 cm
Type
Postcard
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 1840s.
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