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Title: Dumbarton Pier
Post by: samlibrarian on Wednesday 15 August 12 14:21 BST (UK)

Hello, can anyone tell me the year the old pier at Dumbarton Castle was demolished. I have seen it on several photographs and I know there are posts visible in the water.

thank you

Title: Re: Dumbarton Pier
Post by: MonicaL on Wednesday 15 August 12 18:31 BST (UK)

Hi samlibrarian

Welcome to RootsChat  :)

There is this:

Projects he was involved in included NS4477 : The Black Linn Reservoir scheme, and the creation of a pier at the foot of Dumbarton Castle (that pier was destroyed by a storm in 1900).
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2266186

I wonder if this group could help you further: www.piers.org.uk/pierpages/NPS0smallpiers.html

Monica  :)

Title: Re: Dumbarton Pier
Post by: samlibrarian on Monday 20 August 12 14:48 BST (UK)

MonicaL thank you  :)

In MacPhail's 'Royal Burgh of Dumbarton' he writes that Samuel Bennett's 'pet scheme for a pier at Dumbarton Castle, which was opened in 1874, proved a white elephant....much of the pier was washed away in 1897 and the last remnants were removed in the 1960's".

thanks

Samlibrarian