Nigg and Shandwick Work

Attribution: Anne Gordon & Barbara Scott (Nigg Old Parish Church)

Work Photographs

We have been very fortunate to have received permission to show a large number of photographs covering the various work related activites that have taken place over the decades.  We have shown only a very small sample on this page to whet your appetite.  Please visit the photograph album at the bottom of this page for many more photographs relating to work activities.

Building

Workmen re-building Dunskaith House, c1906
l-r: ? Mackenzie, Donald (Danny) (father of Mr John Ross, Pleasant Cottage), ? Mackenzie, ? Mackenzie (joiner), ?, Andrew Ross (uncle of Miss Helen Macleod), Donald Munro (“Danny the Breach”).

Workmen re-building Dunskaith House, c1906

Attribution: unknown

Agriculture

Photos of harvesting at Cullisse (no date).

Attribution: unknown

Construction of Fabrication Yard

07 Construction continutes

Attribution: unknown

Oil Platform Construction

In the late 20th and very early 21st century the name “Nigg” is synonymous with that of the oil industry. The photos relating to this in the photo album illustrate the huge amount of work necessary to develop the area.

Cromarty on the left.

Attribution: unknown

Renewable Energy Construction

By the second decade of the 21st century focus turned to renewable energy production.  Nigg has been at the forefront of the construction of wind, wave and tidal turbines.  

View more work related photographs.

Welcome to this collection of photographs from Nigg Parish. The originals are held by Mrs Liz Whiteford. The photographs were presented in three albums on the original RCHS website, but as the topics are similar in each album it has been decided to amalgamate them into related groups.  All of the photographs can be viewed in the  Nigg Libraries page of this website.  However, we have included the work related photographs on this page.

Click on photo album to view thumbnails and then click thumbnail to see the full size images 
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Balintore looking towards Shandwick Bay
The former Free Church
The shore below the castle, showing the ruin of a cottage
The site of Dunskaith Castle, 1968.
Shop house, Balnabruach.
Looking from dunes, where Hi-Fab is, to the White House and Balnapaling.
Balnapaling, Nigg.
View from Castlecraig Hill showing accommodation ships and caravans.
Nigg Old Parish Church.
Dunskaith House, 1937.
Dunskaith House from Nigg jetty, 1937.
Dunskaith House from Nigg jetty, July 1935.
Front of Castlecraig House, c.1913.
Nigg House when owned by Mr & Mrs Douglas, c.1940s.
Nigg beach with North Sutor in background, c.1904.
Old Shandwick House (AG lists this as Old PO House)
Middle Church / Nigg Hall.
Ivy Cottage, Balnapaling,
Nigg Ferry pier and a stony Nigg beach.
Nigg House.
Hi-Fab site.
The accommodation ships, Highland Queen and Hermes.
Site before Hi-fab
Industrial Nigg
Cromarty Ferry (ie Nigg Ferry) taken from the roof of Dunskaith House, at the end of the 19th century.
BP site before construction.
Woodside Cottage, Nigg Ferry
Nigg Old Church, c.1907.
Ruined cottage at Balnapaling, 1968.
Dunskaith House
Golf clubhouse at Nigg
New Street, Shandwick, 1928.
The Caanruidh layout
Side view of Ankerville House,
Rear view of the old Ankerville House, 1976
Old Manse privy
Shore Street, Shandwick, 1970s
"office wing" of the Old Manse
Old Shandwick House, 1976
Taken in 1976 at Caanruidh on Wester Rarichie overlooking the Moray Firth.
Taken in 1976 at Caanruidh on Wester Rarichie
Taken in 1976 at Caanruidh on Wester Rarichie
The Shandwick Stone
View from the Hill of Nigg
The building is Ankerville Storehouse.
Old Post Office House, Bayfield shepherd's house shoemakers workshop
The Old Post Office House
Dunskaith House (after the fire)
The pier at Nigg Ferry
Pier at Nigg ferry
Balintore looking towards Shandwick Bay
The former Free Church
The shore below the castle, showing the ruin of a cottage
The site of Dunskaith Castle, 1968.
Shop house, Balnabruach.
Looking from dunes, where Hi-Fab is, to the White House and Balnapaling.
Balnapaling, Nigg.
View from Castlecraig Hill showing accommodation ships and caravans.
Nigg Old Parish Church.
Dunskaith House, 1937.
Dunskaith House from Nigg jetty, 1937.
Dunskaith House from Nigg jetty, July 1935.
 
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