There has been a tradition of fishing here from time immemorial. And if fish is caught commercially, it needs to be sold. For centuries, this was done by the fishwife...

When the Fishmarket was constructed in 1896, an area to the east was reclaimed around the same time. Here, a small working estate was erected with garages, stables and kippering...

At one time, in the 18th and early 19th century, this village with a small population boasted (if that’s the correct word) seventeen pubs, inns and hotels.  Of them all,...

The view from Annfield with uninterrupted views over the Forth towards Fife was stunning because the Annfield beach sat on the other side of the road.

The five-storey tenement building with shops at street level and apartments above defines the eastern limit of the village of Newhaven with the western boundary being at a bend on...

Lying between Anchorfield and Annfield, the road was first used as part of the main route from Newhaven to Trinity Mains for carts and coaches because of its more gradual...

Annfield Street was called Ann Street until 1965 when it was renamed to avoid confusion with a street of the same name in Edinburgh city.  No rationale has been given...

The picturesque New Lane, familiar in old picture postcards of the turn of the 20th century, was demolished in 1959 and the sensitive recreation that replaced it in 1970 was...

This used to be Fishermen's Park, a large sward where children played, fishermen caulked and dried their nets and sail makers and boatsbuilders had their businesses.

Until 2022, this building was the oldest state primary school in Edinburgh still functioning, its foundation stone being laid in 1843.  The children have now moved over the road to...

The Whale Brae was the main thoroughfare for fisherwomen carrying their heavy creels up to Edinburgh’s New Town and High Street to sell their produce. The baskets on their backs...

Standing at the entrance of Willowbank Row, one of the few street names to have survived the 1960s Clearances, it is not easy to appreciate the network of narrow streets...

The womenfolk of Newhaven heard most of the local news just by going shopping.  In the days before refigeration, this was a daily occurrence or perhaps every other day.  Everything...

In the days when Main Street was the main thoroughfare of Newhaven, full of shops and houses and bustling with people, this square was called St Andrew’s Square.  Its north...

Looking along Newhaven Main Street, both to the east and to the west, it is hard to believe but at one time Newhaven Main Street supported 83 businesses of all...

Looking across the street from here you will see the entrances for three small lanes or Closes, one of the remaining features of the original layout of the buildings on...

In this hallowed ground behind the railings to this very day, lie buried 485 ancestors of Newhaven, the first being a French shipwright who died in 1505 whilst working on...

The building opposite used to be the Free Fishermen’s Hall upstairs and the two shops either side of the central door to the hall.  This building was constructed in 1877...

A new street, Andrew Wood Court, was built to replace the loss of people's homes in James Street, Ramsay Row and Square, and Smiddy Close as well as some houses...

During the last Ice Age, the huge ice sheets that covered much of northern Europe, including this part of Scotland, reached their maximum extent about 20,000 years ago. The weight...

The precarious occupation of fishing meant that accidental death was never far from people’s thresholds.  As a consequence, Newhaven villagers were God-fearing folk. However, it is remarkable that no church...

Stretching from Newhaven Harbour Lighthouse Pier to a now abandoned lighthouse known as Leith Lighthouse at its north end, near the entrance to Leith Docks, is a long breakwater.  It...

This church building overlooking the harbour is one of two that Newhaven used to have.  It  is the result of that momentous upheaval in the Church of Scotland, The Disruption. ...

Looking at the harbour now with its few pleasure craft, it's hard to appreciate that you could once walk across from one side to the other by going from boat...