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A resident who had previously been interviewed visited the office to say another resident had berated her for giving their name as a potential interviewee. She says she assured this person that she had done no such thing and that the interview had been very pleasant and involved no gossip. She had been offended when she had been told "You Newhaven folks would go talking your heads off all round the place".

Scope and Contents Couple think those who have virulently refused to take part in the survey are likely to be people whose origins were in Newhaven - these are the nosiest people they've ever known but resented anyone knowing anything about them. Wife thinks a lot of married women seemed to go back, not so much to where their mothers are, but to where their grandmothers were.Health: Wife has been having weepy turns, not sleeping and is anxious and depressed. Did not know why as she has the house...

Scope and Contents INTVER disappointed with the interview and thought it was repetitive. One INTVEE recalls how at one time you weren't allowed into Newhaven if you weren't from there, her father used to get doused with water if he tried to cross the bridge to court her mother. They didn't allow their people to go to Edinburgh if they thought they might marry Edinburgh folk but then they discovered they'd been marrying too much within and their children weren't quite right so they started to spread. The...

Scope and Contents Two middle age fishwives, one seated and one standing, are wearing elaborate bonnets and striped skirts in traditional costume. The background scene shows a loch with a bridge and hills in the distance, probably set up in a photographer's studio. No attribution but possibly HIll and Adamson who were known to have created prints depicting Newhaven as a model community bound by tradition, honest labour and mutual support. Alternatively, Alexander Adam Inglis, who is also known to have...

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Fishwives are standing and not wearing headcovering, but wearing traditional costume and holding "creels" (fish baskets). Attributed Alexander Inglis, 221.