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View from SSE looking across harbour toward (left to right) nos 43, 37 and customs house

SC 790900

Description View from SSE looking across harbour toward (left to right) nos 43, 37 and customs house

Date 1979

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

Catalogue Number SC 790900

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Crail Harbour, Fife, from south This view from the south, taken in 1979, shows the north quay of the harbour at low tide. The masonry of the central and left section of the quay wall is built with the stones set in vertical courses, a style of construction introduced in the early 19th century by James Bremner of Wick. Because the harbour dries out at low tide there is a limit to the size of vessels which can use it. It is still used by small fishing boats engaged in catching crabs and lobsters. The entrance to the harbour is open to the west, and is provided with slots into which planks can be fitted when a westerly gale threatens. In the Middle Ages Crail was a trading port of some importance, with a rocky outcrop giving some protection to a sandy bay. The harbour as it currently exists is formed by an east pier, built in the 16th-18th century, and a west pier built in 1825-8 to designs by Robert Stevenson & Sons. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CTH18

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/790900

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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Collection Level (551 147) Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

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