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owners, while it may reflect prudence and wisdom
for their own interest, displays a spirit of Hberality
and good feeling for the welfare of the port, highly
creditable to them. But these public spirited ship-
owners are only following in the footsteps of their
predecessors, who did similar patriotic acts for the
improvement of the harbours from time to time ; and
but for such liberal and enterprising deeds old Port
Henry might have been the sole harbour of a few
inhabitants of a very insignificant fishing village to
this day. The inhabitants, however, of former years,
in procuring grants from Government and other con-
tributions for the formation, erection, and enlarge-
ment of the harbours, not only contributed in various
ways, but pledged their personal security and that
of their feus for the credit of the harbour to carry on
the works, relying on the success to follow, from which
they came out scaithless — and the present generation
have the happiness to reap the benefits of the enter-
prising sj^irit of their forefathers and predecessors,
which from all appearance bids fair for great future
prosperity. It is earnestly to be hoped that such
success will attend the shipping of the port as the
Harbour Trustees shall speedily be enabled, from an
accumulation of funds, to deepen and improve the
South Harbour in such a manner as to render the
Harbours of Peterhead, already the best on the east
coast of Scotland, the admiration of the world. The
South Bay is a great resort for windbound ships,
and a safe retreat for vessels on any occasion except
an easterly gale, is almost universally allowed to be
the best situation for a Harbour of Refuge on the
East coast of Scotland, and it is astonishing, amidst
all the lavish expenditure of public money for nume-
rous purposes constantly taking place, not to be spo-
ken of in point of utility, compared with such an ob-
owners, while it may reflect prudence and wisdom
for their own interest, displays a spirit of Hberality
and good feeling for the welfare of the port, highly
creditable to them. But these public spirited ship-
owners are only following in the footsteps of their
predecessors, who did similar patriotic acts for the
improvement of the harbours from time to time ; and
but for such liberal and enterprising deeds old Port
Henry might have been the sole harbour of a few
inhabitants of a very insignificant fishing village to
this day. The inhabitants, however, of former years,
in procuring grants from Government and other con-
tributions for the formation, erection, and enlarge-
ment of the harbours, not only contributed in various
ways, but pledged their personal security and that
of their feus for the credit of the harbour to carry on
the works, relying on the success to follow, from which
they came out scaithless — and the present generation
have the happiness to reap the benefits of the enter-
prising sj^irit of their forefathers and predecessors,
which from all appearance bids fair for great future
prosperity. It is earnestly to be hoped that such
success will attend the shipping of the port as the
Harbour Trustees shall speedily be enabled, from an
accumulation of funds, to deepen and improve the
South Harbour in such a manner as to render the
Harbours of Peterhead, already the best on the east
coast of Scotland, the admiration of the world. The
South Bay is a great resort for windbound ships,
and a safe retreat for vessels on any occasion except
an easterly gale, is almost universally allowed to be
the best situation for a Harbour of Refuge on the
East coast of Scotland, and it is astonishing, amidst
all the lavish expenditure of public money for nume-
rous purposes constantly taking place, not to be spo-
ken of in point of utility, compared with such an ob-
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| Scottish Post Office Directories > Towns > Peterhead (and Buchan) > Peterhead almanac and directory > (88) |
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| Description | 1853. Peterhead: Printed and published by P. Stuart, Broad Street. |
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| Shelfmark | 5.4951(6) |
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| Description | Directories of individual Scottish towns and their suburbs. |
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| Description | Around 700 Scottish directories published annually by the Post Office or private publishers between 1773 and 1911. Most of Scotland covered, with a focus on Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen. Most volumes include a general directory (A-Z by surname), street directory (A-Z by street) and trade directory (A-Z by trade). |
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