Dalavich Ferry 1952
Horse pulling the ferry up onto the beach in 1952. The ferry is the easiest way to reach civilisation for the residents of the purpose built foresters' village on the banks of Loch Awe.
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Perhaps not quite what it seems - note the log raft behind the boat. The logs were at one time floated across Loch Awe pulled by the boat. Horses were used to pull th etimber down to the boat on one side and up from the boat on the other.
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6 Comments
Bit dubious about the ferry angle. There were roads up each side of Loch Awe in 1956. The boat, Coileach, was used for log extraction. The full name of the boat was in fact Coileach Coille (the bird: Woodcock)
Comment left on 13 January 2019 at 19:52 by Robert (Robin) Kerr, originally from Ford, Loch Awe
I am sure the man in the front of the boat is my Uncle Willie McDonald.
Comment left on 02 March 2020 at 19:46 by John Mcintyre
Cant remember a Willie McDonald (I was very young!) But the shadow figure in the wheelhouse would be Dougie McCallum from Ford.... he was the normal "driver" and stayed at the cottages at Ford pier.
Comment left on 03 March 2020 at 22:29 by Robin Kerr
It may be worth while checking out the main image and those in the pdf of Record No 1324 as it has much better images of boat skipper and the log rafting operation. This image looks as though it could be from the same series of operation images.
Best regards - Norman Davidson
Comment left on 04 March 2020 at 03:50 by Norman Davidson
Best regards - Norman Davidson
Comment left on 04 March 2020 at 03:50 by Norman Davidson
Thank you Norman..... I had previously viewed the main photograph and from memory added a comment at that time. It is definitely Dougie McCallum... he shared our rowing boat and outboard for fishing.
Comment left on 04 March 2020 at 09:08 by Robert Kerr
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This image is thought to date from around 1956 or earlier and resembles images in the PDF attached to Picture Number 1324 and is one of a series showing timber rafting across Lochawe: the log raft being assembled from timber dragged down from the forest: the separate logs are held together by a long chain run through a series of pins hammered into each log and once assembled the raft is then dragged across the loch by boat to the other side for extraction up to one assumes a lorry loading point.
Note here the logs in the water beside the boat which look as though they have just been towed across from the other side. The horse is possibly in the process of pulling the logs up onto the beach and then to the lorry loading point. Can anyone confirm? Comment left on 15 January 2016 at 21:08 by Norman Davidson