Basic Site Details Name: | Anstruther Easter harbour | Town, district or village: | Anstruther Easter | City or county: | Fife | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | 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 ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Harbour | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 2 September 1865 | | Advertisement for tenders | Extension | | 1866 | 1877 | Construction | | | 1892 | | Journal reference | Plans prepared for extension |
PeopleDesign and Construction
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Gourlay | | Anstruther | | | pp118-119 | | Pride, Glen L | 1999 | The Kingdom of Fife | 2nd Edition | The Rutland Press | p151 |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Builder | | XXXII | | p596 | | Building News | | LXII | | p292 | | North British Advertiser | 2 September 1865 | | | |
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