View from SW showing E side of pier with jetty and wooden sheds

Description View from SW showing E side of pier with jetty and wooden sheds

Date 13/10/1970

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 770284

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Newhaven Harbour, Edinburgh This shows the east pier from the south-west. This was widened in 1893-6, when the slipway was added, and the fish-market seen here was built. The steel piling concrete pipes and works in the foreground are part of a road widening scheme which cut of the landward side of the harbour. Newhaven remained an important in-shore fishing port until the mid-20th century, and had a large fish market on the east pier. This building survives, and houses, in part, a small museum. The harbour is now used exclusively as a motor-yacht haven. Beach fishing had been practised from Newhaven for many years before a proper harbour was built. This was formed in 1837, when a masonry east pier was constructed on an L-plan. A concrete breakwater pier was added on the west in 1864, and the east pier was extended in 1876. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/60/12

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/770284

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