Arbroath - 'Fit o the toon'

[GordonFindlay]

Hi

I'm looking at where my deeply interconnected relatives who were fisherman in Arbroath lived.

Names like Cargill, Swankie, Spink, Shepherd, Smith, Pert, Coull abound.

There is often mention of the 'fit o the toon' - an area initially made available to fishers moving into Arbroath. Has anyone seen a definition of the area?

It'll likely be informal, and include Ladybridge, South St, John St, Union St East, Old Shore Head. But how far was the area understood to reach?

[Some are obvious: in 1901, of the 40 households in  South St, 31 included fishermen. Some of the others were one-person households, being widowed women.]

Slainte
Gordon

[David Nicoll]

Hi this seems to give a definition, see map at the bottom of the document.

https://www.angus.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2017-08/Arbroath%20Final%20Draft.pdf

[AlanBoyd]

That pdf has 110 pages, and there is no map ‘at the bottom’. I found this map on page 20; see area surrounded by dashed line.

[David Nicoll]

Apologies, but it does give a map.

[AlanBoyd]

Apologies, but it does give a map.

Apologies from me too, my post sounded a bit cross didn’t it? I just wanted to save others the search for the map.

[David Nicoll]

I included the whole document as it had quite a bit of interesting info, just missed the fact the map was only on page 20!

[GordonFindlay]

Alan, David

Many thanks!  Just what I need.

And that's quite a document in so many ways. Lots of great details amongst the fluff.

Slainte
Gordon