SPW027186 SCOTLAND (1929). Burntisland, general view, showing West Dock and Harbour Place. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north-west.
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| Title | [SPW027186] Burntisland, general view, showing West Dock and Harbour Place. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north-west. |
| Reference | SPW027186 |
| Date | 1929 |
| Link | Canmore Collection item 1256760 |
| Place name | |
| Parish | BURNTISLAND |
| District | KIRKCALDY |
| Country | SCOTLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 323008, 685608 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -3.2364645977146, 56.057175093892 |
| National Grid Reference | NT230856 |
Pins
 Possibly the accumulator tower to work lock gates using hydraulics. Similar to tower at Briton Ferry, I think |
 MB |
Monday 17th of September 2012 09:07:01 AM |
| Rossend Castle. Details here: www.geograph.org.uk/photo/29942 |
MB |
Sunday 16th of September 2012 09:59:52 AM |
| East Dock |
MB |
Sunday 16th of September 2012 09:40:03 AM |
| Customs Watch House |
MB |
Sunday 16th of September 2012 09:39:37 AM |
| Vessel appears to be loading coal |
MB |
Sunday 16th of September 2012 09:38:05 AM |
More likely to be unloading bauxite for use at nearby Alumina Works operated by the British Aluminium Company |
IR |
Wednesday 19th of February 2014 09:06:45 AM |
| Seaforth Oil Mills |
MB |
Sunday 16th of September 2012 09:36:45 AM |
| Hotel |
MB |
Sunday 16th of September 2012 09:35:12 AM |
| Engine house |
MB |
Sunday 16th of September 2012 09:34:28 AM |
| Probable Alumina factory. Not extant in 1914 but was well established by 1943 [OS maps] |
MB |
Sunday 16th of September 2012 09:33:01 AM |
| Paddle steamer. Mooring or casting off? |
MB |
Sunday 16th of September 2012 09:25:33 AM |
This is PS "William Muir" built at Kinghorn in 1879 for the North British Railway Co and transferred to the LNER in 1923. Apart from service as a minesweeper in WWI she sailed between Granton and Burntisland until withdrawal on 3/3/1937. She was broken up soon after at Charlestown. Always a very popular vessel,she even had at least one poem written in her honour. |
mannidaze |
Tuesday 4th of November 2014 07:01:37 PM |
| Coal loading hoist |
MB |
Sunday 16th of September 2012 09:24:14 AM |
| Railway station |
MB |
Sunday 16th of September 2012 09:23:33 AM |
| Burnisland Shipyard. Established 1918. Four vessels under construction - probably Bynmor, Souave, Skeldergate, all launched between October and December 1929, and Eskdalegate, launched in March 1930 |
MB |
Sunday 16th of September 2012 09:21:48 AM |
| travelling crane |
MB |
Sunday 16th of September 2012 09:19:09 AM |
User Comment Contributions
At one time the port was worked day and night. About a quarter of a million tons of coal was shipped in 1920; Burntisland was the only coaling port in Fife. The town featured the world's first train ferry, which ran to Granton from 1850 until it was replaced by the Forth Bridge in 1890. The aluminium works imported bauxite, mostly from Ghana by the 1970s and two new cranes were built to deal with the trade. Alumina was exported. The industry had gone by the present century and in 2005 the site had been cleared for a major housing development, known as Collinswell Park |
MB |
Sunday 16th of September 2012 10:14:42 AM |
