Quarrymen's row, Ballachulish, Argyll

Maker
John Peat Munn
Production date
Aug 1951
 Description
Text on negative envelope reads 'Ballachulish. An inlet of Loch Leven & an old fashioned row of houses at Ballachulish'. View of a row of whitewashed single-storey houses. The hills around Loch Leven are in the background.
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Object detail

Department
Photo
Collection
Munn Photographic Collection/Family & Personal Papers Group
Maker
Production date
Aug 1951
Subject place
Ballachulish/Highland
Subject notes
The cottages appear picturesque but their facilities would be similar to the coal and shale miners rows in the Central Lowlands, most of which had no inside toilet and some had no running water. Ballachulish was one of the great slate quarrying locations in Argyll. Quarrying for slate began in 1693 and continued until 1955. A railway from Connel to Ballachulish opened in 1903 and closed in 1966.
Accession number
P39432

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