Crinan Ferry, Ice House View from S showing SSE front and part of WSW front
SC 554202
Description Crinan Ferry, Ice House View from S showing SSE front and part of WSW front
Date 24/5/1979
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 554202
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Ice-house, Crinan Ferry, Argyll This is a large commercial ice-house, comparable in scale and construction with contemporary east-coast examples, and built to store ice for shipping salmon caught by boats operating from the nearby pier. This view shows the rear of the building, which has been built into a rocky outcrop. The vaulted roof is covered with earth as a layer of insulation. The opening in the rear wall was use for loading ice into the chamber. The ice stored in this chamber would have been cut from local lochs in winter, and stored for packing the salmon in spring and summer for shipment, probably to Glasgow. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H79/67/5
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