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Leith Miscellany Vol V
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Newhaven fishwives - Mrs Hall and unknown woman
Hill, David Octavius, 1985, Postcard
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Newhaven fishwives - Mrs Hall and unknown woman
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Hill, David Octavius
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1985
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14.8 x 10.5 cm
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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.
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