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View from SW looking across harbour toward (left to right) no 37, customs house, nos 36 and 34

SC 790910

Description View from SW looking across harbour toward (left to right) no 37, customs house, nos 36 and 34

Date 1979

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

Catalogue Number SC 790910

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Crail Harbour, Fife, from south-west This view from the south-west, taken in 1979, shows the inner, north quay of the harbour. The vertically set section of quay wall dates from the early to mid-19th century. The green-hulled vessel at the bottom left is a 'Fifie Yawl' of a type once common in Crail, used for inshore fishing with 'small lines'. 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 threatened. 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 CTH19

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/790910

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

> Item Level (SC 790910) View from SW looking across harbour toward (left to right) no 37, customs house, nos 36 and 34

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