5th Pier - Newark Pier

Stock image - Newark Pier

BACKGROUND

Newark pier is based in Port Glasgow, which was originally a town named Newark before it was renamed as Port Glasgow when the city council purchased the land for the construction of a harbour and breakwater. 

Port Glasgow became the primary port for handling timber for shipbuilding reasons during the 18th and 19th centuries but this soon went into decline when vessels with iron and steel hulls were developed. 

The pier itself was part of the shipyard and was originally in two sections and as it was owned under the Lamont's shipyard, it also became known as Lamont's pier.  However the shipyard closed down in the 1980s and after this the pier fell into disuse and now only one of the sections remain. 

The remaining pier has since however been popularly used by anglers but today the pier has been closed off for safety reasons.  

IMAGES OF THE PIER TODAY

 

These shots were taken using an Olympus E-M1 camera on 1 March 2017 using both a 12mm wide angle lens and a 14-42mm kit lens.  I used a Lee 10 stop filter in the 2nd shot to smooth out the water and with these shots I wanted to show a close up of the pier as well as a wide angle view to convey a sense of the pier's scale and size.

Overall I think these shots show the size and scale of the pier very well and offer different perspectives of the pier from close-up to a more wide-angle view.