At the entrance to Glen Nevis. General view including cart.

Description At the entrance to Glen Nevis. General view including cart.

Date 14/9/1883

Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 746289

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of IN 905

Scope and Content Glen Nevis, Highland Glen Nevis, one of Scotland's loveliest glens, runs from Fort William in the north along the west and south flanks of Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the British Isles. The narrow, 11km track which crosses much of the glen was a popular horse and carriage route in the Victorian era. This photograph of the entrance to the glen was taken c.1897 by Erskine Beveridge. The entrance is marked by two short stone pillars, one of which can just be seen to the left of the lower road, and originally there was probably a gate across the road between the pillars. The cottage (right), part of a small farmstead, may have at one time belonged to the gate-keeper. It is built in the traditional architectural style found throughout the Lochaber district, with thick stone walls and a hip-ended, thatched roof. Overhanging eaves of thatch form a fringe around the wall-tops, and the thatch is secured by a network of ropes across the roof. Erskine Beveridge (1851-1920), writer, antiquarian and linen manufacturer, had a private income which allowed him to indulge his passion for photography. In the late 19th century, Beveridge travelled widely with his camera, photographing many of the old cottages in the isolated glens of the Highlands of Scotland, and provided a unique photographic record of a form of living and working that is very old. In 1923, his son, John Henry Beveridge, produced a collection of many of these landscapes in 'Wanderings with a Camera 1882-98', published after his father's death. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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