The above postcard is entitled 'Largo from Lundin Pier'. Having not really heard of 'Lundin Pier' before, I thought I'd try to find out more about it. The first mention I found of this pier was in the Fife Herald of 12 January 1843, under the headline 'Melancholy Accident'. It reported that the previous Monday a flory boat bringing ten passengers ashore from the St George steamer had been backing towards Lundin Pier. While putting the boat's head round, the vessel had "shipped a sea which nearly filled her, and immediately went down" placing all on board in imminent danger. Several people plunged into the sea from the shore to assist and all of the flory boat's passengers were got on shore quickly except one. A young seaman from Elie named David Millar had become tangled in a rope which held him under water. Later efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.
A 1904 feature in the Evening Telegraph of 13 June, which commended Lundin Links as a seaside resort, spoke of the bathing facilities, saying that...
"The early morning dipper may, if the tide suits, and if he can face the ordeal, enjoy a bracing plunge off either Largo or "Old Lundie" Pier or he may indulge in a more modest "dook" off the sands if the tide is not favourable, or it fit suits his inclination or his swimming powers better."
Variously described elsewhere as "Lundie Rocks", "West Pier" and "Old Pier", Lundin Pier is also mentioned in the 'Largo Village Book' published in 1932, where in the section on 'Fisheries', memories of an old inhabitant (born in 1851) are noted as follows....
"He tells me he has seen the harbour full of fishing boats from the bridge to the sea. He remembers just like a dream, a ferry boat coming in to the "Lundin Pier". He says the pier was busy and bustling then."
A 1904 feature in the Evening Telegraph of 13 June, which commended Lundin Links as a seaside resort, spoke of the bathing facilities, saying that...
"The early morning dipper may, if the tide suits, and if he can face the ordeal, enjoy a bracing plunge off either Largo or "Old Lundie" Pier or he may indulge in a more modest "dook" off the sands if the tide is not favourable, or it fit suits his inclination or his swimming powers better."
Variously described elsewhere as "Lundie Rocks", "West Pier" and "Old Pier", Lundin Pier is also mentioned in the 'Largo Village Book' published in 1932, where in the section on 'Fisheries', memories of an old inhabitant (born in 1851) are noted as follows....
"He tells me he has seen the harbour full of fishing boats from the bridge to the sea. He remembers just like a dream, a ferry boat coming in to the "Lundin Pier". He says the pier was busy and bustling then."
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