Scheduled Maintenance
Please be advised that this website will undergo scheduled maintenance on the following dates: •
Tuesday 3rd December 11:00-15:00
During these times, some services may be temporarily unavailable. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Charlestown, Gairloch Pier General View
SC 496190
Description Charlestown, Gairloch Pier General View
Date 26/5/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 496190
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Harbour, Charlestown, Highland council area This harbour has been developed in stages, the oldest part being an L-plan squared-rubble quay and pier built on to a rocky headland. There is a two-storey rubble storehouse on the quay which may have been built as a herring-curing house. This view shows the quay and pier from the landward end. The storehouse is out of sight to the right. Round the headland is a timber-piled steamer pier, with beyond it a new harbour for fishing boats, under construction in 1976. Charlestown is the port for the whole Gairloch area, a relatively densely populated part of Wester Ross. Until road transport took over there was a regular steamer service from the south. It is now a fish-landing port. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/132/14
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/496190
File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap
Attribution: © HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
Licence Type: Permission to Reproduce
You may: copy, display, store and make derivative works [eg documents] solely for licensed personal use at home or solely for licensed educational institution use by staff and students on a secure intranet.
Under these conditions: Display Attribution, No Commercial Use or Sale, No Public Distribution [eg by hand, email, web]
