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Old Photograph Pier Newport On Tay Fife Scotland
Old photograph of a ferry by the pier in Newport-on-Tay in Fife, across from Dundee, Scotland. The Dundee to Newport ferry closed in 1966 on the opening of the Tay Road Bridge. The town was established near the endpoint of one part of a ferry route on the Firth of Tay 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 which resulted in the settlement being called originally being called New 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.
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