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Located at the junction of Naughton Road and Bridgehead Place in Wormit, the board provides some information for visitors about the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster
Captain Keay 1828 - 1918
Born in this house at, Anstruther, Keay became the captain of the Ariel,a Greenock built clipper, which held the record of 83 days for the voyage from Gravesend to Hong Kong
The remains of Newark Castle close to St Monans along the Fife Coastal Path. Re-editing of an older shot I took last year.
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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on the way to East wemyss from West Wymess
Photo taken during my Fife coastal path (inverkeithing to Lundin Links)
Keeping the pavement dry.
An ornamental drinking fountain gifted to the people of Newport-on-Tay by Mrs Blyth Martin 1882
Before and after photos of the old houses at Pan Ha, Dysart, which were beautifully restored from near-ruin in 1969, as part of the National Trust for Scotland's Little Houses initiative. The left hand house used to be the Bay Horse Inn and dates back to 1585. St Serf's Tower just behind is also 16th Century. The tower is probably the finest remaining example of a church tower with gun-slots in the whole of Scotland. Cannons were in place to stop pirates and privateers (usually Engish) anchoring or landing in the bay!
The Blue Plaque on the wall reads " Captain Alexander Rodger, 1802-1877, was born in this house. Fisherman who became master of the China Tea Clipper " Kate Carnie" and owner of the Clipper ships "Lahoo", "Min" and "Taeping" among others.
This does him an injustice, Google him and see for yourself.
I haven’t had much time for Flickr recently and will soon be disappearing on vacation to Maryland, so will be missing again. Mags and I managed a couple of Fife Coastal Path walks in the sunshine, so here are some photos I like.
HMS Dauntless (D33) one of the Royal Navy's newest Type 45 Anti-Air Warfare destroyers seen passing the rocks at Kinghorn Bay. Its role is a defensive one, to protect the fleet from aircraft and missile attacks. It was also nice to see how the damage from the recent storms at KInghorn is being rep[airted. The debris of the two caravans that were swept into the sea is plain to see all over the rocks. It was lucky that no-one was killed. On a happier note, it is great what you can see from the Fife Coastal Path!
The Fife Free Press used my photo and description in their edition of 29th April 2010, the titled it 'Ship Ahoy'.