Crooked Hythe 
 

As the harbour was not constructed until 1882-83, fishing was conducted from the natural inlet known as 'The Hythe, 'Crooked Hythe' or 'Slip Shore'. A slipway was built by shipbuilders Herd & McKenzie in 1903, and around 32 Steam Drifters were built up to the outbreak of WW1. In 1918 they shifted to Cluny Harbour, Buckie.

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This is an 1880 painting of the Hythe by James Clarke Hook entitled "Home with the Tide", which can be seen in Tate Gallery. The painting takes up a familiar theme of Hook's work of the the involvement of wife and children in a man's work.

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