Old photograph of the Coastguard Station by North Queensferry in Fife, Scotland. In 1899 the Royal Navy took over an area of the site and formed a gun battery which was used during the First World War. Prior to this, six cottages were built between 1882 and 1883 as a Coast Guard Station and these consisted of an officer's house, five cottages and a Watch House, also known as High Battery, formally to the East of the cottages. A signal station tower was erected around 1917 and it was at this time that the Coast Guard Station was dis-used. The cottages were used between the Wars to accommodate the Forth River Pilots.
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