Through the keyhole?

In 1828, Newburgh-on-Ythan became the first port in Scotland to have a Lifeboat Station, provided by the Shipwreck Institution. The RNLI, as the Institution was to become, continued to base a lifeboat at Newburgh until 1961.

The old lifeboat house still stands among the dunes at the mouth of the Ythan estuary, now used for storage by salmon fishermen. I felt a little like Howard Carter as I stuck the lens of my camera through a small hole in the door, to see the wonderful things within.