View from SW showing harbour footbridge with Harbourmaster's House in the background.

Description View from SW showing harbour footbridge with Harbourmaster's House in the background.

Date 1979

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

Catalogue Number SC 791020

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Dysart Harbour, Fife, from south-west This view from the south-west, taken in 1979, shows the entrance to the wet dock in the foreground, with one of the dock gates to the left, and a modern footbridge. The whitewashed building is the harbour office, and the building in the left background, originally a warehouse, was, in 1979, a yacht club house. By 1979 the harbour had been virtually disused for many years, though there was still a little inshore fishing. Since then it has become busy with leisure craft, and the piers have been repaired. The wet dock no longer functions as such, and has become a tidal basin. Dysart Harbour was first constructed in the 17th century, primarily for shipping coal from local pits both coastwise and to continental ports. In 1831 a small wet dock was added to accommodate larger vessels. With the development of railways, the importance of the harbour declined. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CTH20

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