Gairloch Libraries

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Book Library

While building this site we have accumulated a lot of information that we felt was best gathered together in different books.  We hope you will enjoy reading them.

Photographic Library

Over the years we have been very fortunate to have been given access to many historic photographs and permission to display them on the website.  We have now collated them into different albums.  We hope you enjoy viewing in them. 

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Gairloch » Gairloch Places » Gairloch Transport
Badachro jetty
Badachro jetty
Badachro jetty. Build about 1840 in association with Badachro House (a former merchant's house).
Gairloch Pier
Gairloch Pier
Gairloch Pier Gairloch Pier with three fishing boats anchored alongside. In the background are the Torridon Mountains, with the peaks of Baosbheinn and Ben Alligin left and right.
Jetties in front of Aird House
Jetties in front of Aird House
Jetties in front of Aird House The jetties, apart from their normal use in loading and unloading goods, were used on Sundays to enable people from Port Henderson, Opinan and so on to embark on the boat taking them across Gairloch to church when the tide prevented the use of the main jetty beside Badachro Inn.
Port na Moine, Badachro
Port na Moine, Badachro
Port na Moine, Badachro Originally the port for handling peat. This with its large jetty and associated house was the property of the Stornoway Fishing Co., built in the late 1800's at the time of the herring boom.
Road from Melvaig to Rhu Reidh lighthouse.
Road from Melvaig to Rhu Reidh lighthouse.
Road from Melvaig to Rhu Reidh lighthouse. The last house in Melvaig can be seen on the left of the photograph.
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Gairloch WW1

Gairloch WW1

The photos in this album are from the Ross-shire Journal during the 1914-1918 War. Newspaper copies had been deposited with Dingwall Museum but over the years had become rather fragile and were in danger of disintegrating and so it was felt that this valuable record should not be lost.
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Campbell Kenneth, Trooper, Melvaig Gairloch
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Gairloch War Memorial

Gairloch War Memorial

The war memorial photographs on this site were originally the work of Mr John W Bruce. He has subsequently developed the website http://www.rosswarmemorials.org.uk which gives much more detail.
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Gairloch War Memorial
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