Some time around 1810 General Sinclair erected a timber pier at the outlet of the Reisgill Burn. The facility of a new pier […] gave further impetus to the developing herring fishery. By 1812 there as little doubt that Lybster with its pier and space for curing facilities was overtaking the other fisheries in the locality.
[extract from The Book of Lybster by Donald A. Young]
Waterlines — The Story of Lybster
