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Dock Place, Waterfront Wine Bar
Unknown, 1986, Photograph
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Dock Place, Waterfront Wine Bar
Dock Place, Waterfront Wine Bar
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38629
Title
Dock Place, Waterfront Wine Bar
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Unknown
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Unknown
Date
1986
Size
6.1 x 8.0 cm
Type
Photograph
Newhaven grew from the site chosen by King James lV to build his naval dockyard in 1504 and his greatest ship, the Michael in 1511. The death of James IV at Flodden saw the end of the expansion of the Scottish Navy. As Newhaven grew as an important fishing village, the local fishermen began to follow the herring in the late 18 Century; they made a comfortable living dredging for oysters and line fishing for white fish. An indoor market was built in Newhaven in 1896, which served many of the fishing villages across Scotland. By the 19 Century the main business of Newhaven and Leith was its trade; exports included herring and cod.
Newhaven became part of Edinburgh in 1920, four centuries after its foundation. Its fishing industry however went into decline in the 1950's, but land reclamation that was started in the 1940's to extend Leith Harbour has continued in recent years giving rise to extensive new housing and transforming an industrial landscape into an extension to the village.
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Leith Miscellany XIII
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