'Alert', Fisherrow, c.1920s.

'Alert', Fisherrow, c.1920s.
'Alert', Fisherrow, c.1920s.
'Alert', Fisherrow, c.1920s.
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'Alert', Fisherrow, c.1920s.
'Alert', Fisherrow, c.1920s.

English schooner 'Alert' had been waiting for three months in Fisherrow for the coal trouble to end, possibly the General Strike of 1920. Ultimately, she had to sail away without coal.

Since this picture was taken the harbour has been extended. The export was mainly coal and a small railway used to run down to the harbour. At Olive Bank, there was a weighing house and across the road (now A1) there was a signal box to control the traffic as the rail ran over the road. The remains of the rail can be seen running along the West Quay.

Other boats used to call in at Fisherrow with chine clay for the paper mill and were towed to Dunbar and loaded up with potatoes; most came from the Baltic. They dumped their ballast at Dunbar, and pieces of china lie there today.
A. Yorick McGill
Bk 9 p100
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