Ruined steamer pier at the end of the B890 on Loch Skipport, South Uist, once a main port for Glasgow and Oban steamers
The old pier at Loch Skipport (Loch Sgioport) stands at the end of the B890 on the east coast of South Uist. Loch Skipport was once one of the island's main seaports, with steamers arriving from Glasgow and Oban with passengers and supplies; the last ships called in the 1950s.
Today only the decaying timber struts of the pier and a deserted quayside remain, reached down a road that passes through a rock cutting and a series of hairpin bends. The sheltered loch is still used as an anchorage by yachts.
Photo Richard Park, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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