Old Photograph Outdoor Swimming Pool Portsoy Scotland

Old photograph of the outdoor swimming pool by Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The sea water swimming pool was opened in 1936. Portsoy is located on the Moray Firth Coast of North East Scotland, 50 miles North West of Aberdeen and 65 miles East of Inverness. From the 16th century until 1975, Portsoy was in the civil and religious parish of Fordyce. The old Harbour dates to the 17th century and is the oldest on the Moray Firth. The new harbour was built in 1825 for the growing herring fishing. Jimmy MacBeath, born 1894, died 1972, the wandering singer, was born in Portsoy and is buried there. Jimmy Paterson, trombonist with Dexy's Midnight Runners, was born and raised in Portsoy.



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