Forestry Houses Glen Eynort Skye

Date Added: 24 January 2013 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1977 Picture No: 1481

The photograph is courtesy of the family of George Dey. George took many forestry photographs in his forestry career and many are now shown on this web site. Check under ‘Groups’ and George Dey Collection.

This view of the Glen Brittle Forest worker houses at Eynort takes in a brief view of the Loch Eynort in the distance.

Can anyone confirm what type of timber houses these are? There are descriptions of timber houses as Swedish or Finnish. Some are one and half storey such as these and some are full two storeys but most seem to be two houses in one building.

How many buildings formed this ‘forestry village’ and who stayed there?

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Groups: Buildings in Forests, Forestry Areas, George Dey Forestry Collection

7 Comments

The tiles on the roof were cedar. We think the walls were Norway spruce. There were 8 houses in this row and a bungalow of the same timber in Grula where the Forester lived. No 1 was always the MacPherson family, 2 was loads of different people manly contractors etc. No 3 was Iain MacCaskill, No 4 was Bill Miller, No 5 David Blakley, No 6 Pete Grounds, No 7 John-Norman Morrison and No 8 a few different family's manly contractors. Comment left on 19 March 2015 at 22:10 by Mairi Miller

The houses are Swedish houses, which were as prefab timber houses after World War II. The wood is Baltic pine. Refer to the website of Prefab Museum- Swedish house for more information.
Comment left on 01 December 2018 at 19:49 by SOHINI NANDI

Remember working there well. Knew all the people mentioned. Great place to work apart from bad midges at times Comment left on 27 January 2019 at 21:33 by Colin Croy...

I am trying to find out if this is where my uncle lived would be in the late sixties and where I holidayed and enjoyed walking to the loch and through Glen Brittle forest learning names iof the wild flowers and birds et .
His name was Angus Walker and his wife Margaret. I would dearly love to return to Skye and visit my childhood haunts. Comment left on 10 July 2022 at 21:45 by Lorna Hall

Would anyone be able to confirm if my uncle Angus Walker and his wife Margaret lived in one of the Glen Eynort forestry houses in the late sixties if I am correct 2 of my cousins would also have been born and lived there

Thank you ( the photo certainly looks very much like the correct place). Comment left on 10 July 2022 at 21:53 by Lorna Hall

I came across this photo by chance, it verges on a miracle. I visited this local 3 or 4 times in the early 1980's when I had travelled from Edinburgh to tour Skye and climb in the Cullins. A fellow named Peter Grounds lived in one of the houses towards the right. I don't think there were more than three more houses. Two Dutch guys who lived in the house furthest to the right ran a BnB (where I stayed with my in laws) plus fishing enough to give out cards that identified themselves as the Eynort Seafood Company. Those guys served us a salmon dinner , with a fish apparently poached from a nearby stream (some absent laird held the fishing rights) Comment left on 14 September 2026 at 17:55 by Frank Sarat

message to Mairi Miller-
I spent a couple evening with Pete Grounds circa' 84-85 imbibing pitchers of Scotch. He told tales of mountaineering exploits (where besides the Cuillins I couldn't say). I'd love hearing what you may recall of him. I'm at fsarat@gmail.com Comment left on 14 September 2026 at 18:13 by Frank Sarat

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