Seil, Ellanbeich, Wooden Pier View looking WSW along top of wooden pier showing crane
SC 489173
Description Seil, Ellanbeich, Wooden Pier View looking WSW along top of wooden pier showing crane
Date 14/5/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 489173
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Former steamer pier, Ellenabeich, Seil, Argyll This steamer pier was built c1870 to serve the large quarry village of Ellenabeich and by small-boat ferry, the smaller village on Easdale Island. It dates from the period when most places in the west highlands depended on steamers for their trade. This view shows the iron-braced timber construction of the pier, with a post crane surviving on the end. Easdale Island is in the background. Slate quarrying was by the 1870s a major industry in the slate islands of Seil, Easdale, Luing and Belnahua, most of the slate going to central Scotland to roof buildings in the growing cities, towns and villages. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/92/13
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