Disused pier and ship loading bay for Preston Hill Quarry
When out for walks along the Fife Costal Path I often stumble across the ruins of the heavy industry that once thrived in this area. There are pieces of machinery of indeterminate use, the remains of old buildings and piers, structures sitting out and decaying away in the water, and broken metal things that may have once been something useful but are now so rusted away it is difficult to say what they were.
Just outside of Inverkeithing there are the rather striking remains of what looks like a disused, iron pier jutting out into the Forth.
These are the remnants of a conveyer belt and loading bay for Preston Hill Quarry. It was once used to load stone from the quarry on to ships. The quarry was closed down many years ago and the pier and loading bay have been left to just rust away.
I found a path through the thorny bushes that took me underneath the rusting metal structure and while I took some photographs a heron watched me warily from the water below.
I then took a wander over to the old quarry site. It is now full of water and is a popular place with the local diving community for training and underwater photography. I tried my hand at a bit of underwater photography by sticking an old and supposedly waterproof camera into the water to take a photo of the reeds growing below the surface. It sort of worked and the camera only fizzed and hissed a little bit.
There are now plans afoot to fill in the quarry site and turn the area around it into a housing development. I got the impression from some stickers on signposts and lampposts along the path leading up to the quarry that this is not a particularly popular idea.
I wandered back round from the quarry to the old pier and loading bay. The sun was bright in the sky and all around was a haze of light reflected on a calm sea.
I left the Skulferatu that had accompanied me on my walk in the iron struts of the pier supports.
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Disused pier and ship loading bay for Preston Hill Quarry
When out for walks along the Fife Costal Path I often stumble across the ruins of the heavy industry that once thrived in this area. There are pieces of machinery of indeterminate use, the remains of old buildings and piers, structures sitting out and decaying away in the water, and broken metal things that may have once been something useful but are now so rusted away it is difficult to say what they were.
Just outside of Inverkeithing there are the rather striking remains of what looks like a disused, iron pier jutting out into the Forth.
These are the remnants of a conveyer belt and loading bay for Preston Hill Quarry. It was once used to load stone from the quarry on to ships. The quarry was closed down many years ago and the pier and loading bay have been left to just rust away.
I found a path through the thorny bushes that took me underneath the rusting metal structure and while I took some photographs a heron watched me warily from the water below.
I then took a wander over to the old quarry site. It is now full of water and is a popular place with the local diving community for training and underwater photography. I tried my hand at a bit of underwater photography by sticking an old and supposedly waterproof camera into the water to take a photo of the reeds growing below the surface. It sort of worked and the camera only fizzed and hissed a little bit.
There are now plans afoot to fill in the quarry site and turn the area around it into a housing development. I got the impression from some stickers on signposts and lampposts along the path leading up to the quarry that this is not a particularly popular idea.
I wandered back round from the quarry to the old pier and loading bay. The sun was bright in the sky and all around was a haze of light reflected on a calm sea.
I left the Skulferatu that had accompanied me on my walk in the iron struts of the pier supports.
kevinnosferatu.blogspot.com/2022/04/skulferatu-66-disused...