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John Band
18/5/2018 12:02:13 pm
Great set of photographs. The top one can be fairly accurately dated to a 20 year period ie between 1894 when the North British Railway Co. Built the station building as part of their upgrade of the former Leven & East of Fife Railway and 1914 when the harbour road bridge was built and is missing from the picture. The small hut on the pier housed the steelyard or weighing machine. The Belmont Hotel can just be glimpsed next to the station, it burnt down in1926.The barrels adjacent to the granary door were possibly for fish but as fishing on a commercial scale was no longer viable at Largo by this time these barrels were more likely for the export of linseed or cottonseed oil from the Oil Mill. The grey timber shed adjacent to the road bridge in the second photograph was owned by the Forte family of the Rio Cafe (known locally as just Forte's) and was a kiosk for icecream etc although most of my life it was used only for storage or as a platform from which brave souls would dive into the harbour.The ground floor walls of the former Belmont Hotel can be seen, some of which exist to this day. Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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