Derelict but colourful

The village of Newburgh was already a busy port in the 15th Century, (and probably long before that), dealing mainly in timber and wool. One of its main advantages to maritime traders was the cheap dues compared to Aberdeen. This so incensed the Aberdeen Town Council that in 1573 they took the law into their own hands and arrested and immobilised Newburgh's trading vessels by confiscating their sails. 
These are the derelict remains of a substantial 300' stone wooden pier built  at the Inches in 1844. This  permitted the efficient loading and off-loading of cargo, particularly coal and fertiliser, from ships to shore and also onto lighters or small barges which were then towed up the Ythan river to the market town of Ellon. For the return journey they were loaded with grain and root crops which were then exported from the Newburgh quay.
The harbour is no more and is now attractively derelict and rapidly disappearing into the waves.