Sunday i cycled to Gullane to go with M for a stroll along the coast at Kilspindie with her dog Jake...
The ground is rock hard with the late springtime drought...
Along at Aberlady Point also known as Kilspindie is a recent information board telling the story of the point once being the port of Haddington...
The Customs house is still there and is residential housing now as is the Malting's on the Wynd, developed into housing in the 1990`s, here are two pictures from yester year of the buildings, the Customs house, looking at the cars this is pre WW2...
And the Malting's Granary on the Wynd post WW2...
I have a great book from 1974, the AA Road Book which has illustrations and info of places around Scotland...
The description for Aberlady looks like it has not been updated for the 1970`s when you read what is on offer at Aberlady...
It was actually right here where now it is a salt marsh...
Here you go...
The Bay today continues to fill up with silt, little remains of the fishing boats moored and left for artists to paint...
Though once the bay would have been home to working boats, some of which can be seen in these old pics...
Today down at Kilspindie and M was amazed that remains of old carts still lie near where the pier once stood...
Other old artifacts can be found in the sands
Some not so old...
The Kilt Rock...
Mooring rings for boats on several rocks
The sub wrecks across on the sand bar...
My late father told me the local author Nigel Trantor said this is where the smuggler tunnels entrances were and they went far inland with hidden openings at Craigielaw...
Former bird watching hide, roof needs repairing, the red pan tiles a classic symbol of East Lothians old buildings, originally brought from Holland having been used as ballast...
As so often the WW2 anti invasion (Coastal Crust) anti tank blocks here were used as part of efforts to stop coastal erosion
Centre of this pic is a line of rocks from a hand built wall washed away...
When we were kids lorries from Glenplant dumped a lot of rubble along here and it can still be found today...bricks and other things...
Back to M`s for tea before cycling home, nice we wander and gentle stretch of the legs after the previous days ride...
I'm sorry to hijack this wonderful post about something that is old news, but do you remember what the Surly Cross-Check gearing was with the Alfine? I'm about to throw a 46-20 on it and was just curious as to what you had as comparison. Thank you! (from another coastal lover across the pond)
ReplyDeleteHi callsign222, it was 46-20 i ran on my Cross-check with the Alfine hub fitted, for where i rode it was ideal,
ReplyDeleteCheers
Bruce