New Lane, Newhaven

Category

Library Item

Item no

4799

Title

New Lane, Newhaven

Description

A row of tradition Newhaven houses stand in New Lane, Edinburgh. They are divided into uppers and lowers, the uppers being accessed by stone external staircases. Long rows of chimneys divide the houses. Two women stand at the top of the street and look to have been shouting down to three boys further down the street. One of the boys is wearing rolled up jeans and another is in school uniform with shorts.

Artist / maker

Grant, Richard

Date

1953

Size

21.4 x 16.2 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Newhaven was founded by James IV in 1504 as a royal dockyard. It became an important fishing village, famous initially for oysters and later herring. An indoor fish market 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 five thousand.

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Architecture > Architectural features > Stairways

Homes > Residential buildings > Houses

People > Children > Boys

People > Children > Girls

Places > Edinburgh areas > Leith

Places > Edinburgh areas > Newhaven

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

(55°58′47″N, 3°11′26″W)

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