The finale to Musselburgh Festival week was the Harbour Ceremony on Sunday.

Introduced to the community event in 1946 following the end of the Second World War, the event celebrated the vast fishing history of the town and introduce the official party to the fishing community.

There was a break of almost 35 years throughout the latter part of the century due to the Fisherrow fleet's size and building of much larger boats such as the Lothian Rose, Nova Spero, Stardust and Fisher Rose followed by the Margaret and Rebecca. Such was the size of these boats, they could not enter Fisherrow Harbour due to the shallow seabed and proved impossible for the harbour ceremony to take place.

With the general decline in fishing throughout Scotland saw the demise of the big boats. With this shift came an opportunity and by the turn of the century, the purchase of the small Fairnies boat based in Fisherrow.

The Honest Toun's Association (HTA), which organises festival week, said: "The association felt that this event should play an integral part of festival week to help preserve the history of the fishing community within the town whilst also celebrating our unique heritage of continued links between land and sea."

Honest Lad Aidan McLaren and Honest Lass Ellen Brown headed out on to the Forth in the 'Fairnies,' the last working fishing boat at Fisherrow. The official party came back into the harbour where they were greeted by prominent members of the remaining fishing community and Clark Community Choir which sang a compilation of well known fishing songs.

The official party then performed the eightsome reel followed by an invitation to eat theshellfish which gave Musselburgh its name.

Following the ceremony, the Eskmuthe Rowing Club held a 'come and try' session in their skiff from the sands on Fisherrow.