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Newhaven
Unknown, 1890, Photograph
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Newhaven
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4781
Title
Newhaven
Description
An old man sits and chats to a woman in a street in Newhaven, Edinburgh. The man has a beard and is wearing a hat and leaning on a walking stick. The woman is holding a wooden tray. The surrounding buildings have pantile roofs, tall chimney stacks and an external wooden staircase. On a line strung between buildings a row of floats hang and various baskets and barrels lie around the street. This is a photograph by a member of the Edinburgh Photographic Society.
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Unknown
Date
1890
Size
16.3 x 11.8 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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