View of 2 The Esplanade, Anstruther Wester, from SE.
F 704
Description View of 2 The Esplanade, Anstruther Wester, from SE.
Date 7/1963
Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number F 704
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 1559501
Scope and Content Written on the back of the mounted print: 'Shire: Fife. Place: Anstruther Wester. Building: 2, The Esplanade'. Photographer: 'F.B.' Date: 'July 1963' Number 2 The Esplanade was probably built in the 18th century and originally served as an inn. Anstruther Wester, 2 The Esplanade / Residential / / /<br />NMRS Other Anstruther Wester began as part of a fishing town, becoming a Burgh of Barony in 1541, and a Royal Burgh in the 1580s. A 'mean town' in 1616, it suffered economic damage from the Act of Union in 1707 but recovered in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference MW/BR/ANS/20
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