New Street, Buckie, Moray, Scotland
Buckie did very well out of the peak of the herring fishery in the latte 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1913, the town had the biggest fleet of steam drifters in Scotland. Many of its houses were built in those decades, the terraced dwellings having (cramped) living accommodation on the ground floor and space for mending herring nets n the roof, the mending done in the winter after the summer herring season. But it all stopped with the outbreak of World War I because the main markets for the herring were in Germany and Russia.
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Keywords: 19th, 20th, buckie, century, coast, drifter, firth, fishing, herring, houses, moray, north, port, scotland, sea, spring, steam, street, terrace, terraced
