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Port Seton Harbour
Unknown, 1879, Photograph
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Port Seton Harbour
Port Seton Harbour
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29046
Title
Port Seton Harbour
Description
A scene showing boats with tall masts in the water of the harbour. Smaller boats stand out of the water on the banked sides of the harbour. Some derelict houses stand by the harbour to the right of the image. Whitewashed houses in a better state of repair stand at the centre of the image. Standing on the harbour pier are a woman and a small boy who wears a sailor suit outfit. A short distance away away a child sits on a bollard on the harbour's edge. On the harbour walkway there is equipment from the fishing industry scattered around. Most notably a pile of fishing nets on the edge by the boats.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1879
Size
12.0 cm x 16.4 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
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 1800's 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 harbours new incarnation was opened in 1880. Port Seton remains one of the few ports in East Lothian to maintain a small fishing fleet.
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