View from SE showing coaling crane on N side of dock

Description View from SE showing coaling crane on N side of dock

Date 11/8/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 739745

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 the coaling crane serving that quay. Part of the similar crane on the north quay can be seen to the right. Both cranes had cradles for lifting coal wagons and tipping their contents into the holds of ships. They were made by Cowans Sheldon of Carlisle in 1937. Apart from the cranes seen here most of 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. There was one section of the west quay and another of the east quay of the basin fitted with cranes for general cargo. 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 H35/70/42/25

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