SAR023945 SCOTLAND (1955). General View Wick, Caithness, Scotland. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing North/East.

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Pennawd [SAR023945] General View Wick, Caithness, Scotland. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing North/East.
Cyfeirnod SAR023945
Dyddiad 1955
Dolen Canmore Collection item 1438430
Enw lle
Plwyf WICK
Ardal CAITHNESS
Gwlad SCOTLAND
Dwyreiniad / Gogleddiad 336344, 951005
Hydred / Lledred -3.090558740851, 58.443040568872
Cyfeirnod Grid Cenedlaethol ND363510

Pinnau

Post WW2" ^Prefabs". Many towns had these prefabricated houses which helped to alleviate the postwar housing shortage'

observer
Wednesday 3rd of August 2022 06:40:41 PM
2ndWW pillbox.

redmist
Tuesday 2nd of February 2021 08:52:48 PM
Approx location of a 2ndWW LAA gun position.

redmist
Tuesday 2nd of February 2021 08:50:12 PM
2ndWW Vickers Machine Gun Emplacement.

redmist
Tuesday 2nd of February 2021 08:47:57 PM

redmist
Tuesday 2nd of February 2021 08:46:20 PM
Wick Radio GKR - Coast Radio Station

observer
Saturday 20th of October 2018 08:45:37 PM
Fishermen's houses, Barrogill Street. This is an example of the housing built in Pultneytown in the mid and late 19th century to house families engaged in the herring fishing and associated trades. This view shows the types of houses characteristic of the model town, regular, but by no means uniform. The dark flagstone gives the area a very gloomy character. The houses in Pultneytown offered a range of different sizes and types of accommodation. The buildings seen here were most certainly tenements, with a common close giving access to a number of relatively small flats. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Billy Turner
Tuesday 24th of November 2015 04:47:47 PM
Smoke house. This is a good example of a fish-smoking house of the larger size. It appears to have been adapted from an earlier 19th century fish-curing yard. This view shows the smokehouse from the street. The characteristic roof-ridge ventilators of the two sections of the house are evident, with the side panels in the closed position. A fire of wood chips at the base of the building provided the smoke. Smoke houses like this were used for 'cold smoking' herring and haddock to make kippers and finnan haddock. Given the importance of Wick as a herring port it is probable that this one was built for kippering. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Billy Turner
Tuesday 24th of November 2015 04:33:58 PM
John O'Groat Laundry. This is a good example of a commercial laundry of the type that became popular at the turn of the century. In laundries like this, household linen and clothing could be washed mechanically, for a small fee. This view shows the laundry from the street. The single-storey brick workshops are typical of the building type, as is the square-section brick chimney stack. Laundries like this became less popular with the availability of cheap domestic washing machines. The survivors washed industrial clothing and hotel ware (now demolished) Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Billy Turner
Tuesday 24th of November 2015 03:50:38 PM
This cluster of houses on Newton Road are now derelict.

Billy Turner
Tuesday 24th of November 2015 03:34:51 PM
Union Street

Billy Turner
Monday 23rd of November 2015 08:00:14 PM
Lumberyard, Union Street.

Billy Turner
Monday 23rd of November 2015 07:43:36 PM
Pultneytown Harbour, Wick, Caithness The construction of this harbour began in 1824, to designs by Thomas Telford, on the south side of Wick. It consists of two large basins formed by a breakwater to the east, a long north pier, and a third pier running north east from the south side. This view shows the concrete lighthouse on the end of the east breakwater, built c1905, and clearly designed to resist the extraordinary force of the waves that can assail this harbour. This was in the 19th century on of the most important herring ports in the world, and these very large basins were well occupied. In the mid 19th century the building of outer breakwaters to make Wick Bay a harbour of refuge proved impossible. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Billy Turner
Monday 23rd of November 2015 07:23:06 PM
Lower Pulteneytown, North Pier

Billy Turner
Monday 23rd of November 2015 07:19:30 PM
Foundry, Francis Street.

Billy Turner
Monday 23rd of November 2015 06:50:55 PM
Harbour Road

Billy Turner
Monday 23rd of November 2015 06:30:16 PM
Wick Town Hall, Bridge Street. Highland Wick Town Hall replaced an 18th-century tolbooth which was so insecure that the council suffered severe financial penalties because of escapes. The original design was considered too costly and a smaller, more compact scheme was adopted. Originally there was a courtyard at the rear with two identical prison blocks. These have been demolished and replaced by later extensions. A new sheriff court-house was built next door, to the north-east, in 1862-63. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Billy Turner
Monday 23rd of November 2015 05:48:03 PM
The War Memorial on Wick Road was constructed in 1923. The bronze figure, by Percy Portsmouth, represents Victory. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN

Billy Turner
Monday 23rd of November 2015 05:42:42 PM
Wick Martyrs' Free Church, Sinclair Terrace. Free Church was originally built as a Reformed Presbyterian Church in 1839. The church is a simple harled building with two storeys. The Reformed Presbyterian Church formed in 1743 from Presbyterians who rejected the 1690 state establishment of the Church of Scotland. The denomination survives, though most of its congregation joined the Free Church of Scotland in 1876. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Billy Turner
Monday 23rd of November 2015 05:30:04 PM
Breadalbane Crescent, a royal burgh since 1589, remained a small town until after 1801 when Thomas Telford planned the harbour and new town on behalf of the British Fisheries Society. By the middle of the 19th century, Wick was Europe's largest herring port. Breadalbane Crescent was built in about 1860, but in the old-fashioned Georgian style of a half-century earlier. The attic level is lit by dormer windows. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Billy Turner
Monday 23rd of November 2015 05:24:33 PM
Argyle Square, Wick, a royal burgh since 1589, remained a small town until after 1801 when Thomas Telford planned the harbour and new town on behalf of the British Fisheries Society. By the middle of the 19th century, Wick was Europe's largest herring port. These houses on Argyle Square date from the 19th century. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Billy Turner
Monday 23rd of November 2015 05:17:16 PM
Ebenezer Place, the world's shortest street. In 2006 the BBC reported that the Guinness Book of Records had confirmed the world's shortest street, Ebenezer Place measuring 2.06 metres, and containing just one door. It had not previously qualified for the record because it did not have a full postal address.

Billy Turner
Monday 23rd of November 2015 05:07:21 PM
Looking down-river towards the Bridge of Wick

Billy Turner
Monday 23rd of November 2015 05:05:02 PM
Harbour Bridge, Wick. Despite some fears about the stability of the bridge in recent years due to pounding by heavy seas engineers still say it is safe. In the past few years works around the harbour have lessened the forces of waves on the bridge in stormy weather.

Billy Turner
Monday 23rd of November 2015 05:02:49 PM
COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY: S0015417

jrussill
Wednesday 15th of July 2015 07:00:00 PM

Cyfraniadau Grŵp

COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY: S0015417

jrussill
Wednesday 15th of July 2015 07:01:04 PM