Do you know where this photo was taken?

We’re wondering what the locations pictured in a booklet published by APRS in 1936 look like today. We are hoping people going into the hills this Spring can help us. If you know where any of the photos in the booklet were taken please let us know or, better still, go and photograph what it looks like today.

We have created a map of the likely locations to help you find and recreate the photos. The main locations are around the planned private Caledonian Power Scheme, which was defeated three times in Parliament in the 1930s and never went ahead. The main generating station would have been at Kinloch Hourn. Many of the dams subsequently went ahead in the 1940s under much improved planning, and a national strategy, and with public ownership and oversight. We are excited to see how the landscapes have changed in the intervening years.

1936 Scotland’s Heritage of Beauty as affected by Water Power Schemes Download

You can read a history of our campaign on hydro power here, including saving the Falls of Glomach which would have been obliterated if they had become part of the Grampian Power Scheme. If you know where this photo, or any of those in the booklet, were taken please let us know or, better still go and photograph what it looks like today.

You can flip through the booklet or scroll down for a map of Scotland marking the rough position of the photos, and see some of the key ones we are searching for below. Email your photos to us with the grid reference (if possible) and we will put them on here with a credit to the photographer.

Explore the map to find the rough locations and scroll through the photos

The History of Hydro

Ninety years ago Scotland was the centre of an energy revolution as hydro schemes were planned and built. Read about APRS’s role in protecting our landscapes at this time, and what we can learn to inform our work today.