Stornoway, 1-2 North Beach View from NE
SC 461356
Description Stornoway, 1-2 North Beach View from NE
Date 23/4/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 461356
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Warehouse, 1-2 North Beach, Stornoway Harbour, Lewis, Ross and Cromarty Stornoway Harbour is essentially a natural inlet, improved by the construction of an outer breakwater, two piers, and a long line of quays forming an inner harbour. These works were constructed over a long period, starting in the 1780s. This view shows a large warehouse built as part of the first phase of works at the harbour. It was probably intended, in part, for the storage of herring barrels, both before and after filling. It is an unusually large and fine building of its type. Stornoway later became one of the great herring ports in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the British fleets of sailing drifters followed the herring shoals round the coast. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/9/10
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