View from E showing coaster in dock
SC 739743
Description View from E showing coaster in dock
Date 11/8/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 739743
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Basin, Ayr Harbour, Ayr, South Ayrshire This shows part of the west quay of the basin, with a small motor coaster and three general-cargo cranes unloading its cargo, which was probably sawn timber from Scandinavia. The entrance to the basin is on the left. The south end of the west quay and the north end of the east quay were the only parts of Ayr harbour equipped for general cargo handling. The rest of the harbour was fitted with coaling cranes and a coal hoist for handling the small wagons of coal which were standard until the 1970s. This basin was originally built as a wet dock on the north side of the harbour, constructed in 1874-8, and intended primarily for coal and iron shipment. It has remained in use for coal shipment, with a succession of up-dated mechanical handling devices, but the dock gates have long been abandoned. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/42/24
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