North Queensferry, Town Pier View from NE showing ESE front of pier with Albert Hotel in foreground and Signal House and Forth Road Bridge in background

Description North Queensferry, Town Pier View from NE showing ESE front of pier with Albert Hotel in foreground and Signal House and Forth Road Bridge in background

Date 1979

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 554080

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Town Pier, North Queensferry, Fife This was one of two large ferry piers forming the northern terminals of the Queen's Ferry across the Forth, important from early medieval times or earlier until supplanted by a road bridge to the west in 1964. This pier was designed by John Rennie. This view shows the pier from the north east, with a small lighthouse at the landward end. Behind the light is the former ferry house, and on the right an inn which served the ferry users. In the background is the Forth Road Bridge, which ended the ferry. This pier came back into use in the mid-1990s, when an aquarium was opened in a former quarry at North Queensferry, served in the summer by a ferry from South Queensferry. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H79/37/7

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/554080

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