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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Seaside Cottage in the distance.
Nigg Bay(?) c.1936.
Seagulls at Nigg beach, c.1936.
A general view of Nigg including Nigg Hotel and Dunskaith House.
The Bishop's Walk early in the 1900s.
Aerial photo of Nigg Mains steading taken August 1984
Broomhill during renovations, 1991.
Possibly Tain Station, c.1926.
Major,
Broomhill Cottage, circa 1920's
On the bulwark opposite Broomhill.
Briar Cottage
Old Nigg Road
Lower Bayfield.
Lower Bayfield, c.1950s.
Lower Bayfield.
Sheep on the old Nigg road.
Nigg House, showing possible site of Bishop's Palace.
Gardener's cottage before alterations.
Lower Pitcalnie, c.1960.
Nigg Hotel, c.1928.
Old Smithy at Culnaha.
Old Post Office, c1948.
Old Wester Rarichie Smithy, now Niaroo.
Pitcalnie Holdings, 1951.
Cromarty from the west, looking to Nigg.
Cromarty and ships sailing through the Sutors.
Cromarty High Street.
Lower Carse of Bayfield
Lower Carse of Bayfield
Seaside Cottage.
Pitcalzean House
View from Castlecraig to Cromarty, 1961,
Castlecraig Farm
Castlecraig House, 1930.
Cottage at Westfield (Mrs Munro and children).
Culnaha House.
Soldiers on Nigg pier, 1929.
Pitcalzean House.
Nigg Old Manse.
The White House.
Nigg Old Manse with girl waving.
White House, Nigg Ferry, c.1968-69.
Aerial view Chapelhill
White House, 1971.
Seaside Cottage in the distance.
Nigg Bay(?) c.1936.
Seagulls at Nigg beach, c.1936.
A general view of Nigg including Nigg Hotel and Dunskaith House.
The Bishop's Walk early in the 1900s.
Aerial photo of Nigg Mains steading taken August 1984
Broomhill during renovations, 1991.
Possibly Tain Station, c.1926.
Major,
Broomhill Cottage, circa 1920's
On the bulwark opposite Broomhill.
Briar Cottage
 
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