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St Andrews Harbour, Rolling Suspension Footbridge View from ENE showing NNE front of bridge with store in background

SC 595534

Description St Andrews Harbour, Rolling Suspension Footbridge View from ENE showing NNE front of bridge with store in background

Date 15/7/1967

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 595534

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Dock gates, St Andrews Harbour, St Andrews, Fife There has been a harbour at St Andrews since medieval times, but it did not take its present form until about 1900. The harbour is protected by a long outer breakwater, and by an east pier, and there is an inner, gated basin, with a rolling footbridge over the gate chamber. This shows the gate chamber from the north-east. The walls of the chamber are constructed of mass concrete, and are part of the c.1900 works. Note the rolling bridge is open for pedestrians. The inner basin seems to have been formed in the mid-19th century to accommodate trading vessels, which were important to the town before the advent of the railway in 1852. Extensive repairs to the harbour were being undertaken in 2001-2. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H67/304/2C

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/595534

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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Collection Level (551 147) Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

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Attribution: © HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume

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