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Old Photograph Fishwife Washing Clothes Pittenweem East Neuk Of Fife Scotland
Old photograph of a Fishwife washing clothes in Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Founded as a fishing village around a probably early Christian religious settlement, it grew along the shoreline from the west where the sheltered beaches were safe places for fishermen to draw their boats up out of the water. Later a breakwater was built, extending out from one of the rocky skerries that jut out south west into the Firth of Forth like fingers. This allowed boats to rest at anchor rather than being beached, enabling larger vessels to use the port. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland. I was raised in Anstruther and spent many days of my youth in this old fishing village on the East coast.
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