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Surely one of the greatest fishwives in history

I love this. It would be great to see more photos of women from this time - see what their lives were like.

"The fishwives of Newhaven were famous for both their beauty and confidence. They carried the fish their men had caught in baskets on their backs up to Edinburgh to sell it. Whenever storms at sea made the fishing especially dangerous and the price of fish rose, they were heard saying 'It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives'. The phrase became internationally known after Sir Walter Scott used it in his novel, The Antiquary." -- National Galleries of Scotland caption

Great Minds Think Alike :-)

Perhaps the arrangement at the front of the skirt was to support the baskets these ladies are often photographed with.

Is she opening shellfish here? Oysters maybe?

Maybe scraping the beards off mussels

That's my great great great great? Grandma!

Poor thing, her shoes have holes in them and she looks like she's had a hard, rough life.

Auchmithie is a village perched on a cliff a few miles north of Arbroath. Some would say that it's the original home of the famed "Arbroath Smokie", and indeed for a long time it had a much bigger fishing fleet than its southern neighbour. But its harbour, at the foot of the cliffs was possibly less attractive than that available in Arbroath and during the 19th century, much of its fleet moved away.

The village is a quiet spot today with the harbour only home to a few small vessels

Of passing note is that fact that it figures in Scott's "The Antiquary", where it is called "Musselcrag".

There is a rather nice seafood restaurant in the village which is worth a visit.

Traducción:
Auchmittie es un pueblo colgado en un acantilado a unas pocas millas de Arbroath.Algunos dirían que es el lugar originario del afamado "Ahumado de Arbroath", y en efecto, durante mucho tiempo tuvo una flota pesquera mucho mayor que su vecino del sur.Pero su puerto, al pie de los acantilados era seguramente menos atractivo que el que había en Arbroath y durante el siglo XIX gran parte de su flota se trasladó a otros lugares.

El pueblo hoy en día es un lugar traquilo cuyo puerto sólo alberga unas pocas embarcaciones.
Otro aspecto que puede comentarse de paso es el hecho de que figura en la obra de Scott "El anticuario", donde se le llama "Musselcrag"

The light, the swing, so modern.

Remarkably short skirt for the era. Perhaps as a working (fisher?) woman she needed to keep her skirts dry.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Shots that don't leave you indifferent, and we'd love to have this added to the group!