Gairloch, Torridon, Wester Ross

Maker
John Peat Munn
Production date
Aug 1948
 Description
Text on negative envelope reads 'Gairloch. View from Strath'. View of a crofting township. View of a crofting township along the margin of the sea. The houses are single-storey, and the nearer one has a tile roof. There is a church building.
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Object detail

Department
Photo
Collection
Munn Photographic Collection/Family & Personal Papers Group
Maker
Production date
Aug 1948
Subject place
Gairloch/Highland
Subject notes
Many of these houses would originally have thatched roofs. The flat land on which the township lies is probably a raised beach, cut by the sea when the sea level was some 8 metres higher than it is now. Crofting was largely a subsistence form of farming. Now it produces income from the sale of sheep, beef cattle and subsidies. Increasingly, crofters combine working their croft with some other paid employment.
Accession number
P38878

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