Erskine Beveridge Exhibition

An exhibition of photographs will go on display this weekend to mark RCAHMS’ forthcoming publication ‘Wanderings with a Camera in Scotland’ by Lesley Ferguson.  The exhibition entitled ‘Wanderings with a Camera – The Photography of Erskine Beveridge’ will run from 4 April until 20 June 2009 (10am-5pm, Monday to Saturday) at the Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre, Lochmaddy, North Uist.

Erskine Beveridge (1851-1920) was the owner of a Dunfermline based linen manufacturing company.  A keen amateur photographer with an active interest and enthusiasm for archaeology and history, Beveridge took his camera on his extensive travels throughout Scotland.  From black houses in the Western Isles and Highland crofts in the shadow of Ben Nevis, to remote castles in Argyll and harbour views in Fife, Beveridge’s remarkable photographs illustrate life in Scotland between 1880 and 1919.

The Erskine Beveridge collection held at RCAHMS contains some 700 of his original glass plate negatives, which were saved from destruction in a mill building in the 1960s.

The exhibition will also go on display at Scotland’s Global Impact Conference, 22-24 October 2009 at the Eden Court Theatre, Inverness.