'Industrial Background', Newhaven Harbour

Category

Library Item

Item no

4890

Title

'Industrial Background', Newhaven Harbour

Description

A man stands in a small fishing boat as it sails out of Newhaven Harbour. It is painted white and has a white sail. At the water's edge is an industrial backdrop of cranes, low-rise buildings and a large metal grid structure.

Artist / maker

Grant, Richard

Date

1952

Size

16.4 x 21.9 cm

Type

Photograph

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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Landscape > Water > Harbours

People > Adults > Men

Places > Edinburgh areas > Newhaven

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Transport > Water > Boats

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