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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Great granny at Ivy Cottage, c.1910.
Great Granny (known as 'little granny'), c.1910
Helen Macleod outside Dunskaith, c.1920s.
l-r: Dolina (Dolly), Helen and Jessie Macleod with Mrs Maxwell c1905.
Mackenzie family c.1940s.
l-r: Granny (Annie Macleod), John Wilson (Annie's father), Mrs Jean Wilson (John's mother/Anne's granny), ?, c1930s.
c.1940s. l-r: Duncan Macrae, Alex Macrae, Ali Munro, Mrs Macrae.
c.1940s. l-r: Duncan Macrae, Alex Macrae, Alex Mackay, Ali Munro.
c.1940s. Back, l-r: Duncan Macrae, Alex Mackay. Front, l-r: Ali Munro, Mrs Macrae.
Outside Gardener's Cottage, c.1930/40s. l-r: Alex Mackay, Arthur Innes.
Mr and Mrs Alex Macrae, Pitcalnie Holdings.
No information.
Alfred Koessl, a German POW
Bert Mackenzie, Tarbert 1952.
Captain Wood, Nigg Camp.
Major Gilstrap and pipe band, Nigg Camp 1915.
Major Tommy (?) Finn (?), Nigg Camp.
Mrs Hughina Rose, left Nigg School 1971.
Betty Robertson (right) and Anne Robertson
Peter D Robertson (in kilt) with friend, Castlecraig House, c.1913.
George Ross, Nigg Farm shepherd's son
Grandchildren playing at Nigg c.1904
Boy on boat, below Broomhill, c.1920-22.
Golfers at Nigg golf course, c.1904.
Golfer at Nigg golf course, c.1904.
Bayfield Mill Wheel, behind family c1910.
Shandwick fishwife Mrs Ross, and daughter Daisy preparing fish for smoking, c.1920s.
Rev Martin's garden party at Middle Manse - Moderator's visit 1959.
Rev Martin's garden party at Middle Manse - Moderator's visit 1959.
William Skinner, New Street, Shandwick
Mrs Christnina Ross, landlady of the Nigg ferry Hotel, c1890/1900
A fishwife from the Seaboard, c.1890.
Alex Mackay at Gardener's Cottage, c.1940-50.
William Mackay (Cath's father),
William Mackay helping with the harvest
outside Gardener's Cottage
Alex Mackay, member of the ATC at Tain, where he cycled to training, c. late 1930s?
Cath's brother Billy was an ambulance driver in Tain, c.1940s,
William Mackay,
Nurse Helen Sinclair
Boat at Nigg - persons unknown.
Boat on Nigg Sands.
Uncle Andrew
l-r: Great Granny (known as 'little granny') with Mrs Maxwell outside Dunskaith House, c.1905.
Alexander Polson, schoolmaster at Nigg School, c.1914.
Jessie and Helen Macleod, c.1920s.
Mrs Polson, shoolmaster wife.
Perhaps on right is Uncle Andrew (Ross) - others unknown.
Four generations, c.1930's
On the roof of Dunskaith House, c.1950s.
Great granny at Ivy Cottage, c.1910.
Great Granny (known as 'little granny'), c.1910
Helen Macleod outside Dunskaith, c.1920s.
l-r: Dolina (Dolly), Helen and Jessie Macleod with Mrs Maxwell c1905.
Mackenzie family c.1940s.
l-r: Granny (Annie Macleod), John Wilson (Annie's father), Mrs Jean Wilson (John's mother/Anne's granny), ?, c1930s.
c.1940s. l-r: Duncan Macrae, Alex Macrae, Ali Munro, Mrs Macrae.
c.1940s. l-r: Duncan Macrae, Alex Macrae, Alex Mackay, Ali Munro.
c.1940s. Back, l-r: Duncan Macrae, Alex Mackay. Front, l-r: Ali Munro, Mrs Macrae.
Outside Gardener's Cottage, c.1930/40s. l-r: Alex Mackay, Arthur Innes.
Mr and Mrs Alex Macrae, Pitcalnie Holdings.
No information.
 
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