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Westray, Gill Pier View from WSW showing crane and NW front of pier
SC 459717
Description Westray, Gill Pier View from WSW showing crane and NW front of pier
Date 3/5/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 459717
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Gill Head Pier, Westray, Orkney This was the pier through the trade of Westray was conducted until roll-on roll-off ferries were introduced in the 1980s. It is a long masonry structure, mainly of 1897 date, with a warehouse and lighthouse at its seaward end. This view shows the pier from the MV Orcadia, at that time the vessel serving the north isles of Orkney. Note the wooden-jibbed post crane, a standard fitting in later 19th century small harbours, but a rare survival by the 1970s. This pier has been supplanted as the ferry terminus by a modern pier. This one is now used by fishing boats. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/40/11
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