View from NNE showing boats moored in harbour with NNW and ENE fronts of Harbour Terrace in background

Description View from NNE showing boats moored in harbour with NNW and ENE fronts of Harbour Terrace in background

Date 1974

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

Catalogue Number SC 796156

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Harbour, North Berwick, East Lothian This view from the east taken in 1974 shows the basin formed in the early 19th-century improvements, with the entrance on the right. In the left background is the larger of the two grain warehouses, which had been converted into flats in the 1960s. The harbour mouth has slots in the masonry on either side into which planks can be fitted when bad weather from the west threatens. This device is known as a 'boom'. The town developed into a holiday resort from the mid-19th century, and by 1974 the harbour was almost exclusively used by pleasure craft. North Berwick is a coastal town with an extensive grain-growing hinterland. Agricultural improvement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries made it an important grain-exporting port, and the harbour was improved to cater for that trade, with large grain stores on its south side. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CT126

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