View of Dysart harbour from SW showing St Serf's Kirk and The Shore.

Description View of Dysart harbour from SW showing St Serf's Kirk and The Shore.

Date 11/1964

Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 1589788

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of F 993

Scope and Content Written on the back of the mounted print: ‘Shire: Fife. Place: Dysart. Building: St Serf’s Kirk, Harbour and The Shore’. Photographer: ‘J.P.’ Date: ‘Nov 1964’ Channel to inner dock, Dysart Harbour, Dysart, Fife Dysart Harbour, in its present layout, was begun in the 1600s, funded by Lord Sinclair and the burgh. It first appears on a map in 1750. The inner dock, completed in 1829, was the first purpose-built coal-exporting dock in Scotland. The channel in the foreground leads into the inner dock which is just visible to the left. In the middle ground is the old tidal basin dating from the early 17th century. Dysart, a pre-existing settlement on the outskirts of Kirkcaldy, became a burgh of barony in 1510 and a royal burgh in 1533. Originally a salt-making centre, it grew into a thriving port for exporting coal and fish. It declined from the 18th century. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference MW/BR/DYS/67

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