Port Seton, Harbour View of Inner basin, from SW
SC 451698
Description Port Seton, Harbour View of Inner basin, from SW
Date 4/10/1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 451698
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 east breakwater pier, with inshore fishing boats moored to it. Port Seton is now the only significant fishing harbour in the Lothians. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/244/2
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