Newhaven - fish house/Shira Brae - Capital Collections

Category

Library Item

Item no

37471

Title

Page from Leith Miscellany, volume V, Newhaven - fish house/Shira Brae

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1930

Type

Photograph; Reproduction

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.

Shira Brae has been replaced by Sheriff Brae since this photograph was taken.

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Transport > Land > Horse and carts