Miner’s LampBrora Heritage Centre This may look like a fairly ordinary lamp, but it measures only 4cm! Brora’s early coal miners used tiny lamps like these, known as tallow lamps. Resembling a mini-tea pot, the wee lamp was filled with animal fat (tallow) and a...
Dingwall Lemonade Bottle Brora Heritage Centre Before plastic bottles, lemonade and other fizzy drinks were produced in ceramic bottles like these. The lemonade factory was just one of many production industries in Dingwall. Nowadays, only the sawmill remains. ...
Powder Horn Glencoe Folk Museum This special horn would have contained blasting powder, used by workers at Ballachulish Quarry. The slate was formed during Precambrian times, approximately 800 million years ago. This metamorphic rock was used to create slate roof...
Aluminium Ingot West Highland Museum In 1929, the Lochaber aluminium smelter opened in Fort William. The British Aluminium Company had developed an area of 303 square miles around Ben Nevis where there is an average rainfall of 406 cm per year. This was ideal for the...
Miner’s Helmet Brora Heritage Centre This black, hardened leather miner’s helmet belonged to Thomas Murray Hunter, who operated the Brora Coal Mine from 1915 to 1947. Coal was central to the war effort, powering industry, railways, and shipping. During the Second...
