Aerial view of town.
SC 872946
Description Aerial view of town.
Date 1991
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number SC 872946
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 49557
Scope and Content Brora, Sutherland, Highland Brora is situated on the east coast of Sutherland at the mouth of the River Brora. In the 19th century, it was a thriving industrial town with boat building, fishing, salt production, a distillery, a woollen mill, coal mining, a brickworks and a quarry. Stone quarried from Brora was used to build London Bridge, Liverpool Cathedral and nearby Dunrobin Castle. This view shows the river, the railway and road bridges (centre) and the rectangular harbour at the river's mouth. Brora harbour was built by the Sutherland Estate in 1814 to facilitate the export of coal from nearby mines. The railway arrived at Brora in 1871. There is evidence that the open cast mining of coastal coal seams near Brora first began in 1529. In the early years, the coal that was extracted was used for salt production and it was the salt that was traded. In the early 19th century, with the advent of the Industrial Age, coal extraction at Brora intensified. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/872946
File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap
Attribution: © Crown Copyright: HES
Licence Type: Full
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]