Foyers

The village of Foyers, home to the Falls of Foyers and the former British Aluminium Company factory. There were two mansion houses Foyers demolished around 1900 and Boleskine which was destroyed by fire in 2015 . There was a pier at Lower Foyers that served the steamboats from Inverness to Fort Augustus and materials to the BA factory. Foyers has currently three shops/ cafes,one hotel and several guest houses and a Post Office.  

with donkey and pony cars that were used to transport supplies from steamer to shop and distribute them round village . People in picture L-R Unknown , Unknown , Kate Ramsay , John Ramsay owner, on basket Winnie Ramsay, David Ramsay , unknown . Photograph and names courtesy of Kitty Fraser Gorthleck

The shop at Foyers pictured around the 1930s to 1940s? Note that the road outside is little more than a single track. Photograph courtesy of Roger Creegan.

Park Terrace pictured here in the 1930s - 1940s. The Terrace is situated close to the new Medical Centre on the road down to Lower Foyers. Photograph courtesy of Roger Creegan.

Park Terrace Foyers Photograph courtesy of Alister Chisholm

Glenlea. This postcard has a postmark of 1928. Photograph courtesy of Frank Ellam.

Glenlea. Photograph courtesy of Frank Ellam

Glenlia c1950 Photograph courtesy of Alister Chisholm

Foyers School from a postcard probably issued in the 1940s. Note the absence of trees around the school or on the other side of the loch. Photograph courtesy of Roger Creegan.

Foyers as viewed from above the Church. The postcard shows a postmark of 1908. The Aluminium factory is clearly visible but Riverside is not yet built. Photograph courtesy of Frank Ellam

The Foyers Hotel in the early nineteen hundreds.

The Foyers Hotel in the 1930s, pictured from loch-side. Once a popular meeting place for local people, the hotel closed in 2003 and is now available for self-catering holiday lets. Photograph courtesy of Roger Creegan.

Another view of the Foyers Hotel showing The Coach House to its right. This photograph is taken from the road down to Lower Foyers. Photograph courtesy of Roger Creegan.

Foyers Hotel taken from the Inverness road side c1935. Photograph courtesy of Roger Creegan

Elmbank on the site of Foyers Mansion house at Lower Foyers pictured around the 1930s. The wooden structure to the left was used for accomodation of single workers of the BA factory. At the far end nearest the factory was a general grocers shop run by Roddie MacKenzie who also had a travelling van shop about the district. Most recently it was used as an Out-Reach Centre for youngsters. Photograph courtesy of Roger Creegan.

Elmbank Foyers Photograph courtesy of Rodger Greegan

Foyers Mansion House was situated in Lower Foyers close to where Elmbank is today. The front steps of the house are still visible approx. 4 metres from the middle of the Elmbank gable end nearest the river. The mansion was the home to the Frasers of Foyers but after the death in 1842 of Simon, the last laird, it was never lived in again. When B.A. obtained it in 1895 it was a derelict ruin with no roof. They fitted a corrugated iron roof and used it to house their employees. However there was always a problem with bug infestation so the building was demolished in 1906 and Elmbank erected in its place for the employees. Recently workers laying a new water supply came across a sway probably from the kitchen fire place of the mansion. Photograph courtesy of Ian Fraser

Boleskine House in 1986 painted by Gordon M Scott who lived at Wester Aberhaulder . This image is from a post card of the painting which has a thirties look about it . Boleskine House was built in the early years of the 19th Century by Archabauld Fraser of Lovat . Unfortunatly Boleskine house went on fire on 23 Dec 2015 and was extensively damaged .

Boleskine House in 1986 original colour painting by Gordon M Scott

Boleskine House c1910 Photograph courtesy of Alister Chisholm

Bridge over the Upper Falls of Foyers . Photograph courtesy of Alister Chisholm

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