Monday 25 March 2013

Kemnay Quarries. Aberdeenshire. Sett-makers working in their individual huts, locally called scathies.


Kemnay Quarries. Aberdeenshire. Sett-makers working in their individual huts, locally called scathies.
BGS image ID: P000135
Kemnay Quarries. Aberdeenshire. Sett-makers working in their individual huts, locally called scathies. Two sett-makers hard at work. They work with hammer and chisel on roughly made sand-filled tables. Light railway lines can be seen in the foreground behind the finished granite setts.

Original BGS photograph number: C3759
Photographer: W.D. Fisher
Date of photograph 1939

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