Disgrace that is the Ferry of today

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Spot The Difference ?

[JockWatt]

The one on the left is in America, the one on the right ????????????

[+weeman]

Building the Kessock bridge Jock

[Charles Bannerman]

That black and white skyscraper shot scares the hell out of me every time I see it! I don't know if it's genuine or the subject of some kind of 1930s photoshopping.

Good one of the Kessock Bridge as well.

[Scarlet Pimple]

C.B, I was thinking the same thing. Every time I see it I cringe and sweat comes out in me hands!

 

The background must have been superimposed after the shot was taken because these guys are far too casual for such a height. One of them is even sitting turned, and almost half off, the metal beam. Also there probably was a safety net below, though.

[Scarlet Pimple]

Oh,  and a little aside...in North America they employed native Indians for these very high-rig jobs because they were so sure footed.

 

And this trait and these jobs were passed down father to son decade after decade. And, yes, these fellas did walk along these large beams at very high levels often without safety nets below. To watch them on film is awesome .

[Scarlet Pimple]

http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2012/09/the-mohawks-who-built-manhattan-photos.html

[IBM]

Any names for the guys on the Kessock bridge that would have been 1980-1982?  Although I cant see his face the one with the helmet might be Brian Willingham from Hartlepool. 

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Will try and get some names but here is a building that made good stuff

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Any names for the guys on the Kessock bridge that would have been 1980-1982?  Although I cant see his face the one with the helmet might be Brian Willingham from Hartlepool.

Names mentioned were Hugh and Bert Morton - ? Mike Spears - Bert Hutton.

[IBM]

That one is looking across Thornbush Road from Anderson Street, I think it was an old mill which was demolished and now the Plum Centre, I am not sure if the building on the right is still there but I think it is now an open yard.

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It was a distillery !!

[IBM]

Are you sure IHE? I thought there was only ever 3 in Inverness.

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Sorry - it was a brewery

[IBM]

I thought there was only 3 but did not know there was ever a brewery there, always learning.

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Here is another brewery

[+weeman]

Is that the Haugh Bar?

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Was to be

[IBM]

Is that the Haugh Bar?

It is weeman, the pub I frequented in my younger days was run by Alex and Marian a Danish couple and wee Bob the grumpy barman who was at his best when shouting last orders at 10 to 10     There was an indoor rifle range up the lane behind the bar and Brian Macgregor's garage.

[Charles Bannerman]

Here is another brewery

By any chance is the white building on the left the former laundry which, briefly in 1968, became The Scene disco which used to run after school discos for under 18s?

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The same guy from the bridge ?

[dougiedanger]

Dancing shoes on too, no bother to the big man.

[Charles Bannerman]

That one is in Inverness Remembered ?IX. It's from the redevelopment of Bridge St in the mid 60s and scares me just about as much as the one from the skyscrapers!

I'm just not seeing any means of restraint at all which would probably be illegal in the current era of Elfin Safety.

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Needed a more up to date piccie

[IBM]

Needed a more up to date piccie

Not many houses on the other side!