Port Seton, Harbour View of inner basin, from SE
SC 451696
Description Port Seton, Harbour View of inner basin, from SE
Date 4/10/1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 451696
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Port Seton Harbour, East Lothian This is a fishing harbour, rebuilt at the beginning of the late 19th century boom in drift-netting for herring which followed the invention of mechanised net making. It consists of two breakwater piers with angled heads. and a central jetty. This view shows the central jetty, with seine-net fishing boats moored to it. The boats are typical of the period. Port Seton is now the only significant fishing harbour in the Lothians. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/244/1
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