Tour Scotland photograph of houses and and shoreline at Cellardyke, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. I was raised in this old fishing village in Scotland. Cellardyke is officially part of Kilrenny parish, and also part of the Anstruther fishing district, its fortunes fluctuating with the fishing trade. The population grew quickly in the 19th century and by the 1860s Cellardyke was a thriving town, with more than fifty boat owners and skippers year round, and one hundred other captains joining in for the annual herring fishing drive or Lammas drave which took place around the Lammas festival on August 1. There was also a February surge in fishing, when shoals of herring arrived in the Firth of Forth. The fish curers of Cellardyke salted and smoked cod and herring from Anstruther as well as their own fish, sending some to London, England, and some as far as the West Indies.
Tour Scotland photograph of the harbour at Cellardyke, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.
Tour Scotland photograph of the shoreline at Cellardyke, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.
Tour Scotland photograph of the shoreline at Cellardyke, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.
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