Housing, Kylesku

Housing, Kylesku

ID: QZP99_97107_22_02 DESCRIPTION: The housing in this photograph is of a type which became common towards the end of the 19th century. The houses had squared corners and triangular gables with chimney flues. The roofs of these houses were usually slate rather than thatch. Kylesku is a small settlement in north-west Sutherland, where Loch Glencoul and Loch Glendhu join to flow through Loch a' Chairn into Eddrachillis Bay. Nearby is Britain's highest waterfall, Eas Coul Aulin, which is about 650ft, four times higher than Niagara Falls. The Kylesku narrows were crossed by a ferry from around 1800 until a bridge was built in 1984. In the 1940s a flotilla of 'X-Craft' and 'Chariot' miniature submarines trained in the waters around Kylesku. This image comes from a collection gifted to Edinburgh Central Library by Dr Isabel F. Grant. The collection includes photographs taken by a number of different photographers. PLACENAME: Kylesku DISTRICT: Eddrachillis and Durness OLD COUNTY/PARISH: SUTHERLAND: Eddrachillis SOURCE: Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh Central Library COLLECTION: I F Grant Photographic Archive Asset ID: 38894 KEYWORDS: