Reflections

Boats landing their catch at the fish market - Scarborough Harbour HFF Everyone Thank you all so much for your visits and kind comments, they are much appreciated

St. Andrews Harbour - Scotland

St. Andrews Harbour - Scotland

A new neighbour at the East Sands - opened October 2019. The SOI is located on the site of the original ‘Gatty Marine Laboratory’, which was opened in 1896.

St. Andrews Harbour

Whitby - North Yorkshire

North Bay and Harbour

*Also known as 'Bottom End' to local people.

Pembrey Beach - Wales

Inner basin - St. Andrews Harbour

In a rock pool East Sands beach - St. Andrews

Sand sculpted by the outgoing tide - East Sands - St. Andrews

The history of St Andrews Harbour is one that spans the centuries and is inseparably linked with the life of the coastal town it serves; indeed at one time the very life-blood of it. No doubt the Harbour's footings are to be found in nothing more than the unimproved shores of the Kinness Burn, around which the early inhabitants of the town, then still known as Kilrymont, would go about their simple lives of fishing and farming. During medieval times and through to the 16th century the harbour would see significant development with the construction of the original stone built piers and quays to serve the many travellers and merchants of the time; the town developing as an important academic, ecclesiastical and trading centre. Today the 18th to 20th century extensions and developments to the Long (North) Pier and Cross Pier form the well-sheltered havens of the Outer and enclosed Inner Harbours, which are home to a small, but growing, flotilla of pleasure craft and a small fishing fleet that in its heyday would have numbered fifty vessels and more. Behind the harbour buildings can be seen some of the remains of St. Andrews Cathedral, including St Rule's tower, sometimes referred to as the Square tower. The tower located in the Cathedral grounds but predates it, having served as the church of the priory up to the early 12th century. The building was retained to allow worship to continue uninterrupted during the building of its much larger successor. Originally, the tower and adjoining choir were part of the church built in the 11th century to house the relics of St Andrew. The nave, with twin western turrets, and the apse of the church no longer stand Today the tower commands an admirable view of the town, harbour, sea, and surrounding countryside.

Taken from the small community of Caroy, about 24 km (15 miles) northwest of the Cuillin.