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.

Click on photo album to view thumbnails and then click thumbnail to see the full size images 
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Nigg 1937.
Bob, Joan, Pat (Munro of Foulis). Nigg, October 1935.
Foulis Moor, October 1935.
Lucy and Claire, Nigg Pier, August 1936.
Evelyn, Nigg pier, August 1936.
Father, before fishing. Dunskaith, September 1936.
Leading a pony down from Nigg Hill
Steve Mackenzie
In front of Dunskaith House (Sonny Macintosh)
In front of Nigg Ferry Hotel, c1950.
Tom Macdonald, grieve at Culnaha.
Clay of Allan Smithy
"Ladybird" Johnson, Sir Philip Southwell and John Robertson at Castlecraig.
RAF and WAAF personnel
Outside Castlecraig House about mid-1970s.
Rev Norman Mackay, sister and friends on cliff on Nigg Hill.
Rev Norman Mackay's sister Isabella.
Mrs Scott with Monica and Flag outside Nigg Old Manse.
Mr and Mrs Munro, Betty and Mabel.
Granny Munro outside wooden cottage at Pitcalzean.
Rev Norman Mackay, sister, wife, mother and children.
Rev Norman Mackay, sisters and friends at the Arch, Nigg.
The Visit of the Moderator
Mabel and Betty Munro (Dallas).
Mrs Dallas's aunt Lexie taking water from a well at Nigg Ferry.
Six youngsters - Betty, Mabel and Westfield children.
Three girls at Nigg ferry (Mackay sisters).
Rev Norman Mackay and group at Nigg.
Rev Norman Mackay, wife and daughter with car.
Mrs Mackay on Nigg pier with Dunskaith House in background.
Group outside Nigg Old Cemetery.
Mr and Mrs McCrum, Seaside Cottage.
Donald Ross with his mother and daughter Eve, early 20th century.
Archie Ross and sister (Teenie) with Charlie the spaniel.
Birthday party in Nicholson family's garden
Charlie the spaniel dressed up.
Iris Ross, Jack and Chris Calder, Nigg ferry, 195?
Isobel Robertson, Iris Ross, Mary Mackenzie (Cowan), ?
Annie and Jimmy Smith.
Jack and Babs Spence and Geordie Ross at Nigg Mains, 195?.
Iris Ross, Evanda Hamilton, Joan Calder, Bayfield Street, c.1953.
Children c1950s
Joan Calder, Jessie Macintosh, Iris Ross.
Jack Ross, Bayfield Street, 1955.
May at Brora, 1936.
Violet's new Morris 12, August 1936 at Dunskaith.
Mrs Bray, Christopher and Rosemary Bray, Mrs Mills, Violet, fishing at Nigg, May 1936.
Evelyn, Claire, John Mackenzie, Lucy, August 1936.
Father and Evelyn on Nigg pier, August 1936.
Uncle Sydney Bamber, September 1936.
Nigg 1937.
Bob, Joan, Pat (Munro of Foulis). Nigg, October 1935.
Foulis Moor, October 1935.
Lucy and Claire, Nigg Pier, August 1936.
Evelyn, Nigg pier, August 1936.
Father, before fishing. Dunskaith, September 1936.
Leading a pony down from Nigg Hill
Steve Mackenzie
In front of Dunskaith House (Sonny Macintosh)
In front of Nigg Ferry Hotel, c1950.
Tom Macdonald, grieve at Culnaha.
Clay of Allan Smithy
 
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