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Golf Club at Port Seton
Unknown, 1925, Photograph
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Golf Club at Port Seton
Golf Club at Port Seton
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27867
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Golf Club at Port Seton
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1925
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The original Port Seaton harbour was built by George the 10th Lord of Seton to easily move coal, excavated at his family's mines near Tranent, up the coast to Edinburgh. It was between these coal fields and the harbour that Scotland's first railway was built in 1722. The harbour had a boom in the 1800s exporting coal, salt and shellfish to ports as far afield as Norway, The Baltics and Spain. With the adoption of drag net fishing and the huge crafts needed for the practice the harbour became unfit for purpose and local fisherman raised funds to expand and improve it. The harbour's new incarnation was opened in 1880. Port Seton remains one of the few ports in East Lothian to maintain a small fishing fleet.
Image from the David Ritchie Watt Family Album.
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