Exploring my town in more detail, part 2

This session was based on the area of Bo'ness known as Bridgeness which used to have a harbour but was filled in during the 1950s, various craft being buried in the process, among them ships boats, a wooden Baltic Trader the Nellie Duff and according to local legend a U boat engine room that had been used as a power plant.

This first shot shows the surviving pierhead, now positioned outside the recent band of gabions that make up the new shore defences:

From Bo'ness

It is possible to reach the pierhead with some careful rock hopping, here the view from the pierhead across the Forth:

From Bo'ness

This is one of the larger pieces of scrap remaining on what was the site of the McLelland ship breakers, in the background can be seen the Upper Forth Boat Club and a few yachts moored in the bay:

From Bo'ness

And a view from the McLelland shipbreakers site over the Forth with a Navy ship in the background, docked at Rosyth:

From Bo'ness

This is a photo I took back in Feb of some steel plates that stick out of the water. I have since discovered that it is part of what was once a WW1 Motor Torpedo Boat (MTB):

From Bo'ness

And some evidence of how the foreshore continually changes, note the large wooden post sticking up in this photo:

From Bo'ness

and here it has been removed less than 6 months later:

From Bo'ness

Bridgeness tower was originally a windmill and would have driven a pump for the Bridgeness Colliery, the top floor and contrasting brick battlements were added in 1895, in 1989 it was restored as an elegant town house with a difference:

From Bo'ness

See also
http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/49607/details/bo+ness+bridgeness+the+tower+gardens+bridgeness+tower/

References:
http://fyca.sbmyc.com/Publications/CruisingGuide/cruisingP14.htm