Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
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Old Photograph Newport-on-Tay Scotland
Old photograph of Newport on Tay in Fife, across from Dundee, Scotland. This Scottish town was established near the endpoint of one part of a ferry route that itself was started in the 12th century. In 1715 a new pier and inn were built, the work being funded by the Guilds of Dundee. Thomas Telford built a new harbour in the 1820s, and the town expanded and grew into a commuter suburb of Dundee as the prosperous jute manufacturers, industrialists and the middle and upper working class of Dundee established fashionable residences in Newport. Newport-on-Tay formerly had two railway stations the East and West stations. Both stations, and the Tayport-Dundee branch line, closed in 1969, having lost much of their business following the opening of the Tay Road Bridge in 1966.
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