Archaeology Notes

Event ID 659886

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH42SE 4.00 centred 49699 21051

NH42SE 4.01 4999 2138 Foyers Pier

Not to be confused with Foyers Power Station (NH 50306 21774), for which see NH52SW 41.00.

For associated Loch Laggan reservoir and dam (NN 37241 80786), see NN48NE 9 and NN38SE 7 respectively.

For associated workers' housing, see:

NH42SE 5 NH 4965 2094 1-6 Park Terrace

NH42SE 16.00 centred NH 49948 20166 1-60 Glenlia

NH42SE 17 centred NH 4965 2100 Foyers village

Works [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1975.

(Location cited as NH 497 211). Aluminium works, Foyers, founded 1896 by the British Aluminium Co Ltd. The surviving part of the works is an eight-bay rustic single-storey range with crow-stepped gables on each bay. At the W end is a lower wider bay in the same style, and at the E end are two narrower bays at right-angles. No longer an aluminium works. Nearby is the quay at one time used for shipment through the Caledonian Canal.

J R Hume 1977.

Built 1896, presumably by Cameron and Burnett; closed 1970. Very sturdy in hammer-dressed rubble, the front a parade of round-arched windows in crowstepped gables.

J Gifford 1992.

Formerly a Power House associated with the first aluminium works, this structure was, at the time of a RCAHMS photographic survey, February 1997, being partially converted to a fish farm.

Visited by RCAHMS (MKO), February 1997.