Old Photographs East Coast Fishing Industry Scotland

Old Photographs of the East Coast Fishing Industry in Scotland. With photographs from picture postcards and amateur collections dating as far back as the late 1800s, this book captures the boom years of the East Coast herring industry. Travelling North to South from Scrabster to Wick it captures the strongly visual and diverse subject matter with such memorable images as the Herring Girls, the women gutters and packers who followed the herring boats as they tracked the shoals around the coast; the launch of the steamer Gowan as steam began to replace sail at the turn of the century and the Aberdeen vessel Keith Hall aground in fog at Skifigoe on the west coast of Orkney in November of 1921. Scotland's East Coast Fishing Industry.

Old Photograph of Wanlockhead Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Wanlockhead, Scotland. This is a village in Dumfries and Galloway nestling in the Lowther Hills, which form part of the Southern Uplands. It is Scotland's highest village at 1531 ft and the highest point of the Southern Upland Way, a walking trail that traditionally starts at Portpatrick on the west coast and finishes some 212 miles away at Cockburnspath on the east coast, in the Scottish Borders.



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