Old Photograph Fishermen Fishing Boat St Monans Scotland

Old photograph of fishermen on a fishing boat in St Monans in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. In the latter part of the 1800s and early decades of the next century, the harbours of places like St Monans, Anstruther and Pittenweem were the centre of local life. Busy and buzzing, all the industries depended on the sea. Boat builders wielded adzes to handcraft wooden fishing craft, then sealed the hulls with hot black pitch. there were blacksmith, sail makers, the rope works, cork factory, net makers and the iceworks. There were gutters to clean the fish, and packers to fill the wooden barrels made by local coopers.



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