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Old Photograph St David's Harbour Dalgety Bay Fife Scotland
Old photograph of St David's Harbour in Dalgety Bay, Fife, Scotland. Dalgety Bay is a coastal town on the North shore of the Firth of Forth. It began as the village of Dalgety, which was built on the site of the 12th century St Bridget's Kirk. The land surrounding the town was part of the estate owned by the Earls of Moray who built Donibristle House as their residence. Towards the end of the 18th century, the village was removed by order of the Earls of Moray. During the First World War Morton Gray Stuart, 17th Earl of Moray donated a portion of his land to the Crown, which built an airfield there in 1917 as a base for the Royal Naval Air Service. The town also sent 30 men to war in the First World War, with only 8 returning unharmed. The Royal Naval Air Service improved and expanded the aerodrome during the Second World War as HMS Merlin, an aircraft repair yard, and constructed an extensive aircraft maintenance facility there.
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