This week’s photograph was sent to us by David Guest, who said: ‘It shows the Kerrera ferry launch and slip, and was taken by my aunt, Dr Mary Guest, with her new SLR. The ferryman, Mr Beaton, holds the launch from drifting away by dint of a boot on the gunwhale, as he habitually chats to the passengers disembarking. Beaton, who hailed from the Outer Isles, was a tremendously friendly and helpful man. During the busy summer he used to let me, as a 12-year old, take the tiller as we plied back and forth. Sadly, an excitement now made impossible for a child. Then, Beaton’s 15-year old son used to operate the ferry solo.’
This atmospheric photograph shows Fort William High Street during the summer of 1933.
Picture courtesy of Roamer