Newhaven Pier

Category

Library Item

Item no

5694

Title

Newhaven Pier

Description

The pier at Newhaven, Edinburgh is awash with activity. Small fishing boats with sails, filled with fishermen, nestle by the pier wall. Fishermen and women are everywhere carrying baskets and equipment. The Old Ship Inn stands by the shore along with houses and many beached boats. Waves crash up against the seawall.

Artist / maker

Smith, Alec D

Date

1871

Size

35.2 x 54.3 cm

Type

Watercolour

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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Homes > Residential buildings > Houses

Landscape > Land > Coastlines

People > Agriculture and fisheries > Fishermen

People > Agriculture and fisheries > Fisherwomen

Places > Edinburgh areas > Newhaven

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Sport and leisure > Eating and drinking facilities > Public houses

Transport > Water > Boats

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