Wednesday morning online from October 19 to December 7.
ALL SURVEY BYPASSER 2013 ARCHIVE
The Highland Archive Centre will be running Archives for Beginners classes every Our opening hours are 10am to 4.30pm, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. These photographs, and many more, can be viewed in our searchroom at LochaberĪrchive Centre. To be reminded of how things once looked is an enjoyable and interesting activity and can be instrumental in the preservation of our own memory. By the time they are complete, we are wholly accustomed to their presence and can barely recall what formerly occupied the space they now use.
People are genuinely interested to see the Lochaber of their parents or grandparents or to see the area as they had forgotten it once appeared.īuildings are erected brick-by-brick, thus a whole street can be altered so gradually we are unaware of any evolution taking place. The enthusiasm is not always formed entirely of nostalgia. Given our situation in Fort William, many of these people live in or are connected to Lochaber. Whenever posted on social media, such images are received enthusiastically by those who follow us. To see the accompanying images of the station’s demolition is equally affecting, though for the opposite reason. Whatever the practicality of the bypass, it is difficult to argue against the aesthetics of a Victorian-era train station overlooking a body of water as beautiful as Loch Linnhe. On first seeing the images, myself, Jenny and a visitor at the archive centre agreed we preferred the old layout. Although I was aware the station and line had once been situated on what we now know as the town centre bypass, I had never seen pictorial evidence. On the final post on this theme, I chose to share images of the old Fort William train station, before and after its demolition in 1975.
The lives of many folk would have spanned these two eras and they would have witnessed the vast changes that occur over time, especially through periods of such rapid modernisation.ĭespite transformations in industry and infrastructure, certain features in a landscape always remain constant, including Ben Nevis, a stoic figure seen in the background of one of these earlier images. Most likely taken in the 1990s, in this image we see people thronging the canal, its banksides by now anĪttraction for tourists. The earliest of these showed the Caledonian Canal and boats and trains powered by steam driving progress and industry between them.Ī much later image shows Neptune’s Staircase from above. We began with images of Corpach and Banavie dating from the late 19th and late 20th century. The content of posts on this theme varied greatly.
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