View from ESE showing fishing boats in harbour and lighthouse, Newhaven, Edinburgh

Description View from ESE showing fishing boats in harbour and lighthouse, Newhaven, Edinburgh

Date 1979

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

Catalogue Number SC 790823

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Newhaven Harbour, Edinburgh, from south This view from the south taken in 1979, shows the harbour from the south, after its area had been reduced by the construction of a new waterfront road. The 1876-8 breakwater is on the left. The fishing-boat, a 'Fifie Yawl' is typical of the vessels which latterly fished from the harbour. By 1979 Newhaven had declined as a fishing harbour, and its once-thriving fish market was disused. It was being used as a pleasure craft harbour, and since then that use has expanded. In the 19th century, fishwives from Newhaven sold their wares from door to door in Edinburgh. Newhaven appears to have been a beach-fishing station from an early date. The first stage in forming the present harbour was the construction of the L-plan east pier in 1812. In 1876-8 this was extended to the west, with a new cast-iron lighthouse, and a mass concrete west breakwater was added. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CTH16

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