Basic Site Details

Name: Anstruther Easter harbour
Town, district or village: Anstruther Easter
City or county: Fife
Country: Scotland
Parish:  
Status:  
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Notes: Cost of 1860s work £80,000. Cost of 1892 work £35,000

It was here presumably that Robert Louis Stevenson received his engineering training

“Anstruther is a place sacred to the Muse [. . .] and I have there waited upon her myself with much devotion. This was when I came as a young man to glean engineering experience from the building of the breakwater. What I gleaned, I am sure I do not know; but indeed I had already my own private determination to be an author; I loved the art of words and the appearances of life; and travellers, and headers, and rubble, and polished ashlar, and pierres perdues, and even the thrilling question of the string-course, interested me only (if they interested me at all) as properties for some possible romance or as words to add to my vocabulary.”(“Random Memories – The Education of an Engineer” in Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays [London: Chatto and Windus, 1892], pp. 189-90.

Building Type Classification

The building is classified under the following categories:
 ClassificationOriginal classification?Notes
Item 1 of 1Harbour  

Events

The following date-based events are associated with this building:
 FromToEvent typeNotes
Item 1 of 32 September 1865 Advertisement for tendersExtension
Item 2 of 318661877Construction 
Item 3 of 31892 Journal referencePlans prepared for extension

People

Design and Construction

The following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column.
 NameRolePartnership GroupFromToNotes
Item 1 of 6D & T Stevenson A18651872 
Item 2 of 6David Stevenson A18651872 
Item 3 of 6Thomas Stevenson A18651872 
Item 4 of 6Alan Stevenson  18661877East Pier
Item 5 of 6John Hawkshaw  18661877East Pier
Item 6 of 6D & T Stevenson B1892 Extension

References

Bibliographic References

The following books contain references to this building:
 Author(s)DateTitlePartPublisherNotes
Item 1 of 2Gourlay Anstruther  pp118-119
Item 2 of 2Pride, Glen L1999The Kingdom of Fife2nd EditionThe Rutland Pressp151

Periodical References

The following periodicals contain references to this building:
 Periodical NameDateEditionPublisherNotes
Item 1 of 3Builder XXXII p596
Item 2 of 3Building News LXII p292
Item 3 of 3North British Advertiser2 September 1865