Blackwater Reservoir, Lochaber, West Highlands
Here lay the remains of some of those who had died in the building of this great dam and the reservoir that lay behind it.
Some names are scratched on the stones - John Mackenzie, W. Smith, Darkey Cunningham, and curiously Mrs Reilly, a lone woman in this male dominated environment.What stories lie behind these simple stones, gravestones not of marble and slate but the material with which these such men worked - concrete? Another stone bears the word Unknown a reminder that these folk were the misfits of the day itinerant workers who knew no home or family.
This little graveyard in its wild and remote setting, is more than just a cemetery It's a monument to those who were once described as the outcasts of mighty industrial society.
Blackwater Reservoir, Lochaber, West Highlands
Here lay the remains of some of those who had died in the building of this great dam and the reservoir that lay behind it.
Some names are scratched on the stones - John Mackenzie, W. Smith, Darkey Cunningham, and curiously Mrs Reilly, a lone woman in this male dominated environment.What stories lie behind these simple stones, gravestones not of marble and slate but the material with which these such men worked - concrete? Another stone bears the word Unknown a reminder that these folk were the misfits of the day itinerant workers who knew no home or family.
This little graveyard in its wild and remote setting, is more than just a cemetery It's a monument to those who were once described as the outcasts of mighty industrial society.