"Gairloch"

Maker
John Peat Munn
Production date
Aug 1948
 Description
Text on negative envelope reads 'Gairloch. Thatched Croft. Morning sun'. View of a single-storey croft house at Strath with thatched roof and rubblestone walls. There are other buildings to the side and at the back.
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Department
Photo
Collection
Munn Photographic Collection/Family & Personal Papers Group
Maker
Production date
Aug 1948
Subject place
Gairloch/Highland
Subject notes
The house is typical of 19th and early 20th century houses. Only as incomes rose and the cost of transport fell (due to the steamship) could ordinary people in the Highlands afford slate roofs. Even then, often corrugated iron was used as a cheaper alternative. The cottage was called 'Druim na Darach' or 'bank of oaks'. Good quality thatch was wind and rain proof and lasted for several years. When it was replaced, the old thatch could be used as fertiliser on the fields.
Accession number
P38886

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