Battery Pier

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The Battery Pier is a pier in the Scottish village of North Queensferry in the Council Area Fife . In 1996, the building was included as an individual monument in the Scottish list of monuments in the highest monument category A. Furthermore, together with the Signal House Pier , the Lantern Tower and the Signal House , it forms a category A monument ensemble.

history

At least since the Middle Ages , North Queensferry was the location of a ferry dock over the Firth of Forth , from which the place name and that of the opposite South Queensferry are derived. In 1809 the Forth Ferry Trustee Company was formed . The owners of the ferry terminal were obliged to sell the ferry rights by parliamentary resolution the following year. As a result, they received a compensation payment of £ 10,000. The docks on both banks of the inlet were in poor condition at the time. For this reason, the Scottish engineer John Rennie was entrusted with the revision and expansion of the facilities. Today's Battery Pier essentially originates from this construction phase. The total cost of the work on both sides of the Firth of Forth was £ 33,825. An extension known as the West Battery Pier also included the construction of a combined house that was available to ferrymen and waiting passengers. It cost an additional £ 4207 to build.

Construction of the Forth Bridge began in 1881 directly to the west of the pier . The coast guard station was originally located at the current location of the northernmost main pillar. When construction began, the Coast Guard moved into a building on Battery Hill and a slipway was added to the pier . The Battery Pier played an important role in the bridge construction. However, it was rarely used for regular ferry operations. Only when the tide was low was preferred that today's old pier not be called . With the construction of the Forth Road Bridge in 1964, ferry operations ceased and the jetty became obsolete.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .

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Coordinates: 56 ° 0 '23.9 "  N , 3 ° 23' 26.3"  W.