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Newhaven
Unknown, 1920, Photograph, Postcard
Newhaven
Newhaven
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Item no
4816
Title
Newhaven
Description
A tram makes its way along the shoreline at Annfield Street, Newhaven. There is a steep drop down to the stony beach. Various groups of men with flat caps are making their way along the road. The tenement buildings of Anchorfield with their domed corners can be seen as well as two tall factory chimneys.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1920
Size
8.7 x 13.9 cm
Type
Photograph
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Postcard
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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Newhaven
ReDrawing Edinburgh: Edinburgh in 1920
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