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.  

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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.

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German prisoners of war (photo taken by Helen Macleod)
German prisoners of war
Queen departing Nigg, 1964.
Senior citizensof the parish at the jetty awaiting the arrival of the Queen in 1964.
Golfers at Nigg (date unknown).
Pitcalnie School picnic 1977.
Ships of the Home Fleet taken from Nigg pier, also showing Cromarty Sutor, c.1926
Prize bull and cow at Easter Rarichie (photo Urquhart, Dingwall).
Two Clydesdales with William Ross
The Queen and Prince Philip leaving Nigg, 1964.
Two horses and ploughman at a ploughing match (date unknown).
40th Anniversary Party of Nigg SWRI, 1959.
40th Anniversary Party of Nigg SWRI, 1959.
Royal Yacht Britannia sailing through the Sutors.
Soldiers on training exercise at Nigg Ferry, 1929.
Queen's escort sailing through the Sutors.
Queen's escort in the Cromarty Firth.
Home fleet sailing past in August 1939
Destroyers entering the Cromarty Firth, September 1936.
HMS Courageous sailing through the Sutors, September 25, 1936.
HMS Rodney, September 25, 1936.
HMS Courageous, Cromarty Firth, c1937.
Donald Ross, Old Shandwich Farm, with June and Rosie, at a ploughing match, Culnaha
Cromarty Firth, 25th September, 1936 - HMS Nelson.
Officers, NCO's and Men of the 4/5 Batt: The Seaforth Highlanders, Caithness, Ross-shire and Sutherland,
Ploughing match, Nigg Farm, 1931.
Ploughing match, Culnaha, 1930.
A ship from the Home Fleet (HMS Superb) sails through the Sutors, c.1920s.
German prisoners of war coming ashore at Nigg, 1914-1918 War.
HM the Queen at Hi-Fab for the ceremonial float out of Highland One, 1974.
Launch coming to Nigg to take the Queen to Cromarty, 1964.
Mrs Scott, Mrs Mackenzie and Mrs Calder at Nigg Ferry awaiting the arrival of the Queen
Arabella Hall Concert, c1955
King and Blaze, Castlecraig horse
Home Fleet in the Cromarty Firth looking from Invergordon towards the Sutors of Cromarty.
Home Fleet in the Cromarty Firth looking up the Firth, with Cromarty to the left.
Nigg Sunday School Picnic at The Ferry, c1940s.
Nigg Sunday School Picnic at The Ferry, c1940s.
Nigg Sunday School Picnic at the Ferry c1940s.
Sunday School Picnic at the Ferry c1940s.
Nigg Sunday School Picnic at the Ferry c1940s.
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German prisoners of war (photo taken by Helen Macleod)
German prisoners of war
Queen departing Nigg, 1964.
Senior citizensof the parish at the jetty awaiting the arrival of the Queen in 1964.
Golfers at Nigg (date unknown).
Pitcalnie School picnic 1977.
Ships of the Home Fleet taken from Nigg pier, also showing Cromarty Sutor, c.1926
Prize bull and cow at Easter Rarichie (photo Urquhart, Dingwall).
Two Clydesdales with William Ross
The Queen and Prince Philip leaving Nigg, 1964.
Two horses and ploughman at a ploughing match (date unknown).
40th Anniversary Party of Nigg SWRI, 1959.
 
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