St Andrews Harbour, Southern (Short) Pier View from NNE showing NW front and curved NE front
SC 595535
Description St Andrews Harbour, Southern (Short) Pier View from NNE showing NW front and curved NE front
Date 15/7/1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 595535
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Eastern breakwater, 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 eastern breakwater from the outer breakwater. The eastern breakwater appears to have been built c.1700 and its squared masonry may have been quarried from the ruins of St Andrews Cathedral. The structure was built as a pier as well as a breakwater. 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 H67/304/1D
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