Newhaven Harbour 4
by Yvonne Johnstone
Title
Newhaven Harbour 4
Artist
Yvonne Johnstone
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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Located at the western extremity of Leith Docks is Newhaven Harbour, Edinburgh's traditional fish market. Newhaven, still a distinctive community in the seafaring tradition, can trace its history back to 1504.
Newhaven was known as the premier oyster port of Scotland from 1572 until around 1890, when they became scarce due to overworking. Herring was the main-stay from the late 18th Century and Newhaven became the fish-market for Edinburgh.
In the late 19th Century Photographers David Hill (1802-70) and Robert Adamson (1821-48) made a unique record of the Newhaven fisher-folk in 1843, one of the first uses of photography in social history.
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March 1st, 2019
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