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Tayport Harbour. This picture shows a trawler loading the coal via a coal hoist. In this case there was an accident.
Visitor Comments
Matt Dickie, Australia (2004-10-15)
My great uncle - Jack McKay - who was aboard the trawler - died as a result of this accident
Chris Mckenna, USA (2005-01-08)
use to swim in the harbour as a teenager
Bill Macdonald in Australia (2005-07-13)
Used to Help Geordie Mitchell to Coal these Trawlers, from around 1942.
Lauraine, Canada (2006-01-14)
Great Photo and comments help make site very interesting.
bill christie,sydney,australia (2006-02-11)
used to swim in the harbour around 1948 with my friends from dundee.
Jacqueline Orr (nee Burnett) (2006-02-12)
Also used to swim in the harbour when the sawmill yard was next door (1960’s)
Helen (2006-07-13)
The Harbour was our “swimming pool” and I swam there in the 70’s. There was a swimming club there for many years from the 30’s onwards. Diving from the coal drop was done by those with a brave heart .
May Lawson (2006-10-21)
I learnt to swim in the harbour before 1955 - left for melbourne australia then! Fond memories
Constance (2007-04-23)
Another learner here, my cousin Henry Philp dared me to jump from the coalhoist–and I did–ONCE!!!! circa 1950
Alec McKay (2007-07-24)
My Grandfather, JOhn McKay, a coal trimmer, aged 63, was badly injured on 11th of June, 1920 and died of his injuries on the 13th of July, 1920.
A runaway ggods train loaded with coal shot through the hoist.
Mary. (2008-06-09)
I also learned to swim in the harbour in the fifties with my friends.We once put our clothes in a wagon which started to move away with us running after it. Fond memories indeed.
Claire Philp (2008-10-08)
My grandad Jackie/John Philp fished for salmon and mussels in Tayport before I was born, but when I grew up there during the 1980’s my friends and I dared or pushed each other in the harbour!
Derek Roger ( now in Canada ) (2008-12-09)
I also swam in the Harbour many times and jumped the coal drop . My friends and I often swam in the Harbour including in January ( we must have been Mad ! ) Friends were Lyle Croll ; Gosh Gilcrist : The Wilkie brothers ( David ) ended up winning an Olympic swimming medal if my memory serves me well . We either swam in the harbour or by the Rivit Rock and sometimes Tentsmuir . If we were flush we went to the swimming baths in Dundee .
May Lawson (2009-03-06)
My dad used to work as a fisherman on the trawlers
Jim Speirs (Perth WA) (2009-10-19)
Was in Tayport 2 weeks ago had great pint in the bell.
Chris Harley (2010-08-20)
William Keddie born 1848 Markinch Fife in 1881 was a Railway Surfaceman lived on Tay St.
Edith Wise nee :Law (2011-05-15)
I went swiming in the harbour in the 39’s ( Ed McGraidy )taught all us young ones from the slipway. My only dareing dead was to jump of the bolards on the peir and swim round the bouy Happy Days//////