Newhaven Harbour

Category

Library Item

Item no

13372

Title

Newhaven Harbour

Description

An image of Newhaven Harbour, Edinburgh on a sunny day. The harbour wall stretches out in the background and ends with a lighthouse. The reflection of the lighthouse can be seen in the water. Many people are walking along the harbour wall. In the foreground a small fishing boat, the "Robina Inglis", floats in the harbour.

Artist / maker

Laughlin, Alan

Date

2007

Type

Digital image

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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Landscape > Water > Harbours

Places > Edinburgh areas > Newhaven

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