A special exhibition celebrating a major Highland industrial centre will be held next week.
McDermott Construction’s Ardersier yard was a leading supplier in the field of offshore construction for oil and gas companies for almost 30 years.
At its peak, around 4,500 people were employed at the Whiteness Point site, building and then moving some of the world’s largest man made structures.
And that industrial heritage will now be celebrated in the latest of the Highland Archive Centre’s Living Memories series.
The drop-in exhibition will be held on Friday, July 10 at the centre on Bught Road between 2pm and 4pm.
On show will be part of the centre’s large collection of photographs, staff magazines and several other records documents the yard’s development, engineering contribution and its wider benefit tot the Highlands.
Former employees and anyone with an interest in the Highland’s engineering heritage are invited to head along to see the exhibition or potentially catch up with former colleagues.
The yard was opened in 1972 and eventually closed its doors in 2001, when 1,300 people lost their jobs.
It has lain vacant since but plans were granted in principle in February last year for the site to be transformed into a new major manufacturing and maintenance facility for offshore windfarm construction.
The consortium behind Port of Ardersier say that the new facility would be able to support around 2,500 jobs.