Foyers, 1-60 Glenlia, Cottages View from W showing NW front of numbers 45-52
SC 498717
Description Foyers, 1-60 Glenlia, Cottages View from W showing NW front of numbers 45-52
Date 30/5/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 498717
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Former workers' housing, Foyers Aluminium Works, Inverness-shire This was the first aluminium smelting works in Britain to use Heroult's electrolytic process. It was built by the British Aluminium Co Ltd to use the water-power of the Falls of Foyers to generate the large quantities of electricity required. This view shows some of the houses provided for the workers in this remote spot. These ones are one storey and attic, similar in style to the improved rural housing then being built throughout the highlands. This works was designed to use the Caledonian Canal as its primary means of transport, and it had a wharf on Loch Ness, The works closed in 1970, and the waterworks were adapted as a pumped-storage hydro-electric scheme. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/156/13
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