{"id":1953,"date":"2015-09-27T08:54:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T22:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2015-10-26T06:14:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T19:14:51","slug":"inverkeithing-the-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"Inverkeithing \u2013 The Harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inverkeithing is on\u00a0the site of a small river called the Keithing Burn, part of which can still be seen \u00a0on the northern shore of the Firth (estuary) of Forth (river) north of Edinburgh with settlement extending back beyond 1000 years. http:\/\/www.scottishchurches.org.uk\/sites\/site\/id\/2430\/name\/St.+Peter%27s+Parish+Church+Inverkeithing+Fife<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/data.historic-scotland.gov.uk\/pls\/htmldb\/f?p=2200:15:0::::BUILDING:49949<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0 It has had provided varied sources of employment apart from those required to maintain a small community, including agriculture, ship building, ship breaking, paper making, quarrying, housing workers working on bridges over the river, scrap metal recycling and now it seems to be somewhat of a dormitory suburb for Edinburgh along with long stay parking for drive and ride commuters.<\/p>\n

Click on\u00a0the panoramas to see them properly<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Firth of Forth showing Inner Bay and Inverkeithing<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Small<\/a>

Small boats in the harbour leading to Inverkeithing Burn to the right<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Panoramic<\/a>

Panoramic view of the Inner Bay and town<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Panorama<\/a>

Panorama of the Inner Harbour and in the Firth of Forth with Leith and Edinburgh in the distance<\/p><\/div>\n

\"May<\/a>

May have been unloading scrap metal and departed soon after this photo was taken<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Inner<\/a>

Inner Harbour and Firth of Forth<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Panorama<\/a>

Panorama and railway bridge<\/p><\/div>\n

\"St<\/a>

St Davids on southern coast<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inverkeithing is on\u00a0the site of a small river called the Keithing Burn, part of which can still be seen \u00a0on the northern shore of the Firth (estuary) of Forth (river) north of Edinburgh with settlement extending back beyond 1000 years. http:\/\/www.scottishchurches.org.uk\/sites\/site\/id\/2430\/name\/St.+Peter%27s+Parish+Church+Inverkeithing+Fife http:\/\/data.historic-scotland.gov.uk\/pls\/htmldb\/f?p=2200:15:0::::BUILDING:49949 \u00a0 It has had provided varied sources of employment apart from those required […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[86,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-history","category-inverkeithing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}