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Date 6 October 2014
Event ID 991607
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/991607
Located in the former brewary was the site of the Thornbush Boom Defence Works, which constructed and maintained booms for naval anchorages across Northern Scotland. The works also included part or all of the quay and slipway at Thornbush. The boom system was the result of the work of two men, Captain Munro, Cromarty Firth Harbour master and Mr Sam Hunter Gordon of the Rose Street Foundry, Inverness, who at the outbreak of the First world War developed the boom. The system was rapidily adopted by the Royal Navy and Thornbush operated from just after the start of the war until the end. The workforce comprised mostly women, c.120 women were employed at the works.
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) and Inverness Field Club 6 Ovtober 2014.
