An oblique aerial view of Helmsdale, East Sutherland, looking SE.
SC 1896351
Description An oblique aerial view of Helmsdale, East Sutherland, looking SE.
Date 1998
Collection Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 1896351
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content A close view of the town. To the right of the river below centre is the cemetery with the foundations of the medieval chapel of St John the Baptist. To the right of the cemetery and higher up is the nineteenth century arched road bridge with the War Memorial and above that the modern A9 bridge for the town's bypass. The harbour, built 1818, engineer John Rennie, extended 1839-41 for the Duke of Sutherland, and rebuilt 1890 for the Helmsdale Harbour Trustees. The older part consists of a quay and pier upstream from the [then] new bridge, forming a rectangular basin, and the 1890 part consists of two piers enclosing a roughly triangular basin. On W (right) side of Helmsdale River are ruins of an old breakwater. Designed mainly as a fishing port. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).
Accession Number 2019/15
External Reference P10759
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