Kirkwall Harbour View from N showing WSW front of S half of pier, NNW front of harbour wall and N fronts of buildings on Harbour Street
SC 459558
Description Kirkwall Harbour View from N showing WSW front of S half of pier, NNW front of harbour wall and N fronts of buildings on Harbour Street
Date 30/4/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 459558
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Kirkwall Harbour, Orkney This harbour consists of a long, irregularly-shaped east pier, with a broad head, and an easterly stub, and a shorter west pier. Together they form a basin used by small craft; larger vessels use the east pier. This view shows the inner basin, looking towards Shore Street, with part of the east pier on the left. The building on the right, in the background, is the girnel, a 17th century warehouse built for storing rents paid in grain. Since 1976 extensive works have been carried out to improve the working of the harbour. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/29/15
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