View from S showing ESE front of shops with ferry terminal in background
SC 712704
Description View from S showing ESE front of shops with ferry terminal in background
Date 7/1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 712704
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Ferry Pier & Terminal, Boat Brae, Newport-on-Tay, Fife This terminal was constructed as the southern terminal of a ferry to Dundee. The ramped pier was built in 1823 for the first steamboat ferry, to designs by Thomas Telford. In the late 19th century semicircular-roofed canopies, with a central gabled office, were added at the landward end. This shows the pier buildings on the right, with a block of shops and offices on the left, built in about 1880 to designs by C & L Ower. The ferry terminal had been disused since the opening of the Tay Road Bridge in 1966. Newport developed rapidly after the opening of the steam ferry in 1823, as a residential suburb of Dundee, and as a sea bathing resort. The opening of the Tay Bridge in 1878, and of its replacement in 1887 further encouraged growth. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/69/46/30
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