Dysartian
As the Crow Flies
Crows landing on a platform on Dysart beach. I was originally told that the strange looking platform might have been a false gun emplacement from WWII, built to fool Nazi submarines that the beach was defended. Since then I have been assured by a local historian that the strange semi-circular brick and concrete structure at the far end of our beach, was the site of a revolutionary (for the time) borehole sunk into the rock strata by the Earl of Rosslyn's private coal company. This was an attempt to reach rich coal strata steeply dipping beneath the waters of the Firth of Forth. I'm told that this photo made Explore on 21st July 2008 but I didn't see it there?
As the Crow Flies
Crows landing on a platform on Dysart beach. I was originally told that the strange looking platform might have been a false gun emplacement from WWII, built to fool Nazi submarines that the beach was defended. Since then I have been assured by a local historian that the strange semi-circular brick and concrete structure at the far end of our beach, was the site of a revolutionary (for the time) borehole sunk into the rock strata by the Earl of Rosslyn's private coal company. This was an attempt to reach rich coal strata steeply dipping beneath the waters of the Firth of Forth. I'm told that this photo made Explore on 21st July 2008 but I didn't see it there?