Main Street, Newhaven

Category

Library Item

Item no

35665

Title

Main Street, Newhaven

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1907

Size

11.0 x 15.5 cm

Type

Photograph; Reproduction

Copyright

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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 1840s. The area now has a population of roughly five thousand.

In the 1960s much of Newhaven was demolished, but some parts, such as the houses with outside stairways found on one side of Main Street, were rebuilt in a style similar to the original.

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