Granite quay walls, a working fish market quay and rendered lanes climbing the hill behind.
What Newlyn looks like
The old harbour pier curves around the original harbour and is built of massive granite rubble, with a seawall on its seaward side. The is a concrete extension with a white light at its end. Beside , opposite the fish market, stands the Former Ice Works. It is a tall granite and brick building from 1907. Trawlers tie up along the , with a long shed roofed in solar panels behind them.
Houses climb the hill behind the harbour in rows of granite and rendered cottages under slate roofs, and the roofs step down toward the water. Lanes rise steeply between white and pink walls, with a granite wall along one side and cobbled kerbs at the edge.
and carry the residential streets above the harbour. Pairs of rendered semi-detached houses sit back behind granite walls and grass verges, and some have bay windows.
Concrete armour blocks sit among the rocks of the Tolcarne breakwater, with a granite wall running alongside. A white lighthouse stands on a pier at the far end of the view.
Shot in Newlyn
Keith Floyd cooked aboard a Breton prawn trawler in Newlyn harbour for a 1986 episode of the television series Floyd on Food. The sequence was shot on board a working boat in port, so the trawler itself is the location.
Floyd on Food, 1986
Newlyn harbour
Keith Floyd climbs over the rail of a weather-bound Breton prawn trawler and cooks a creamy chicken dish for its crew. The boat is the Annais, and the sequence was shot aboard her in port.
Kalk Bay's harbour was begun in 1913 with a breakwater and a fish-landing quay. It still has an active fishing industry. The working boats at its quay match the trawlers tied up along the fish market quay here. The mountain slopes and the railway line through the town give Kalk Bay away in a wide shot, so frame tight on the quay. Try searching working fishing harbour now.
Portsoy in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Portsoy's old harbour dates to the 17th century. Its new harbour was built in 1825 for the herring fishery, which once had 57 boats. The old harbour and its boats give a 19th-century working look for a small fishing town. Modern boats and parked cars give the harbour away in a wide shot, so frame close to the old quay. Try searching old harbour boats now.
