View from WSW looking across harbour with (left to right) nos 1 - 5 Mid Shore in central background

Description View from WSW looking across harbour with (left to right) nos 1 - 5 Mid Shore in central background

Date 1979

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

Catalogue Number SC 791063

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content St Monans Harbour, Fife, from south-west This view from the south-west, taken in 1979, shows the west basin of the harbour from the west pier. On the right is part of the mid-pier, probably built in the 1880s, and, above it, a wooden boatbuilding shed, part of James Miller & Son's boatyard. The houses are of 18th- and 19th-century date. By the 1960s the East Neuk fishing industry had been concentrated on Pittenweem, but St Monans was still building and repairing fishing boats and other small craft. The boatyard was subsequently adapted to build steel fishing boats, but has now closed. The harbour is now used by leisure craft. St Monans is one of the burghs of the East Neuk of Fife which prospered as ports when land transport was difficult and expensive, and, after a period of decline, became important as centres of the fishing industry in the late 19th century. Like several other ports on the Firth of Forth it also had a boatyard. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CTH24

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