Gairloch, Torridon, Wester Ross

Maker
John Peat Munn
Production date
Aug 1948
 Description
Text on negative envelope reads 'Gairloch. The Shore, Strath @ road'. View of a rocky shore with single and one-and-a-half-storey houses facing the sea. Open boats are drawn well up on the shore. There is no road to the houses, only a footpath that comes down via a wooden footbridge over the burn.
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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
For long after the houses were built, the absence of an access road would not be a problem. No-one would own a car and before that, few had carts. People had few possessions and what they had rarely needed to be transported anywhere. Sea was the easiest form of transport. Fishing was carried out mainly for domestic consumption until the later 20th century, partly because land communications were poor compared to Mallaig and Kyle of Lochalsh which were railheads.
Accession number
P38881

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