View from E showing brick smoking sheds

Description View from E showing brick smoking sheds

Date 8/1970

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 767269

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Harbour and Piers, Mallaig, Highland This shows fish-smoking sheds on the headland to the west of the steamer pier. These were built for smoking herring to make kippers, a way of preserving these oily fish for transport to market. These particular ones appear to have been disused by 1970. The herring fishing was the most important branch of the fishing industry in the 30 years before World War I, and remains of sporadic importance. In the early years most of the catch was cured, that is salted in barrels, and much of it was exported to eastern European countries. Mallaig is the western terminus of the West Highland Extension Railway, which runs from Banavie to Mallaig, and which was opened in 1901. It was built to provide a rail-linked terminus for steamer services to the Outer Isles, and to encourage the fishing industry, and a harbour was built as part of the scheme. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/50/40

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/767269

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap