View from NNW showing row of one storey and attic cottages, modernised by additional dormer windows

Description View from NNW showing row of one storey and attic cottages, modernised by additional dormer windows

Date 14/8/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 766398

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Fishermen's houses, Nos 3-14 Foreland, Ballantrae, South Ayrshire This shows one of the two rows of houses that were built for fishermen using the new harbour. The end of the second one is on the left, and there are inter-war council houses on the right. The cottages on the left, with canted dormer windows, are probably in original condition. The harbour was only used by small craft in 1970. There were still some larger boats owned in Ballantrae in 1970, but they used Girvan as a base, with its better harbour and road and rail connections. Girvan-based boats still use the registration letters BA for Ballantrae, reflecting that port's earlier importance. Ballantrae had been a beach-fishing station for many years before a new harbour and associated houses were constructed in about 1860. This consisted of an L-plan pier, well-built of red sandstone. The utility of the harbour was limited by the failure to construct a north breakwater, and by its shallowness. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/49/22

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/766398

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap