Getting around South Loch Ness.
Pony and Trap outside the conservatory at Aldourie Castle. Photograph courtesy of Iain Cameron.
Mrs.Elizabeth MacGruer( Betsy) at Ault-na-goire with donkey and cart. Photograph courtesy of Alex Sutherland.
Loch Ness Steamer - The Glengarry. Built in 1844 as the "Edinburgh Castle" she worked the Caledonian Canal from 1847 for 80 years. In the 1870s she was lengthened, provided with saloons and renamed "Glengarry". From 1895 the Glengarry was placed on the Loch Ness mail run from Fort Augustus to Inverness where she remained until her last run on 29 October 1927. She was broken up 3 months later. At 83 she was the oldest steamship in the world. Photograph courtesy of Iain Cameron.
The Gondolier leaving Fort Augustus. The 250 ton paddle steamer was built in 1866 by J & G Thompson for the partnership of Alexander & David Hutcheson and David MacBrayne and was designed for working through canal locks. She sailed extensively all her working life along the entire length of the Caledonian Canal on the Inverness to Banavie route untill the route was closed in 1939. She was then taken to Scapa Floe in the Orkeney islands and sunk to prevent enemy boats entering the naval safe harbour. Photograph courtesy of Ella Macrae.
The Regent at Foyers Pier, possible delivering Bauxite to the BA factory Foyers ,
Alan Cameron driving a Stanley Steam car at Aldourie Castle in 1907. The Stanley Steam Car was manufactured in America, powered by a steam boiler heated by a vaporizing Kerosine burner. Alan drove the car (nicknamed Angeline) in mid winter from Aldourie to Achnacarry via Inverness, a journey of 80 miles in 4 hours, with two stops for taking in water at Glen Urquhart and Invergarry. Photograph courtesy of Iain Cameron.
Whitebridge Bus c1910 . Donald MacGillivrays, Lyne of Gorthleck's Bus outside Post Office Inverness prior to starting its run up to Whitebridge. Photograph courtesy of Grace MacGillivray .
Outside MacGillivray's shop at Lyne of Gorthleck in mid twenties . L-R : Mrs Brimlow , Meena MacGillivray, Angus MacGillivray, Miss Brimlow, Barbara MacGillivray, Donald MacGillivray and Mr Brimlow. The Brimlows would have been staying at the shop which was also a guest house at one time. Photograph courtesy of Grace MacGillivray.
Family on motorbike and sidecar outside Cairns, Foyers , K.J. Macpherson, Susan Macpherson, with daughters, Margaret and Kitty Photograph courtesy of Kenny Ross.
Shaw Brothers Road Contractors truck outside the Dores Inn. The driver s of the truck is either Donald or Jimmy Shaw from Croftdhu, Errogie. The two men in the back of the lorry are Dan Mackintosh and Jock Davie. Photograph courtesy of Donny Mackintosh.
Ian and Alister MacAskill along with Jimmy and Wulstan MacPherson by hand opening the Fort Augustus road which was blocked by snow just west of Whitebridge Hotel in early 1954. Although there is a Ferguson tractor present, it was not untill a few years later locally that there were snow ploughs fitted to tractors which enabled the roads to be cleared much easier. Photograph courtesy of Hugh MacNally.
Whitebridge bus around 1950, taken at the bus stance in Farraline Park , Inverness, which also served the Dores & Foyers bus services . Photograph courtesy of Alister Chisholm
Fair Maid of Foyers (the Puggie) loaded on a flat bed lorry leaving the BA factory for the last time when it closed c1966 . Photograph courtesy of Ala MacGuer .
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