This page displays a range of colour postcards of the area around Blaven and Torrin. Postcards are rarely dated so it has not been possible to accurately determine the age of the individual images. If you have any additional information about the photographer, publisher or date, please contact me.
”Ox-eye daisies at Torrin in the Isle of Skye. Blaven (3,042 ft. in the distance“
Photographer W. S. Thomson. Published by G. & G. Ponton Ltd., Glasgow, reference ”4“, date unknown.
W. S. Thomson ran a photographic studio at 8b St. Vincent Street, Edinburgh between 1963 and 1967.
”Loch Slapin and Blaven, Isle of Skye“
Photo Precision Ltd. St. Ives. Published by Colourmaster International, reference ”PT34640“, date unknown, postmarked 1973.
”Blaven from Loch Slapin, Isle of Skye“
The reverse of this card reads ”Blaven from Loch Slapin, Isle of Skye. The rugged grandeur of Blaven rising from the shores of Loch Slapin is one of the scenic gems of Scotland. Highland cattle roam freely on loch shores and roadsides in Skye adding a picturesque touch. This view is just below Torrin village, a few miles by road branching from the Kyleakin-Portree road at Broadford Hotel“.
Published by J. Arthur Dixon Studios, reference ”3776“, date unknown, postmarked 1974.
”Blaven, Isle of Skye“
The rear of this card reads ”Blaven, Isle of Skye. The dark, rugged peaks of this famous mountain, an out-lier of the ’Black Cuillins‘, are here seen beyond the shoulder of Beinn Dearg in the ’Red Hills‘, providing an interesting contrast. The view is looking across Loch Cill Chriosd from the Elgol Road, near Broadford“.
Photograph by Alex H. Hamilton ARPS. Published by J. Arthur Dixon, Inverness, reference ”3683“, date unknown.
”Blaven from Torrin, near Broadford, Isle of Skye“
The reverse of this card reads ”Blaven from Torrin, near Broadford, Isle of Skye. This impressive mountain, with its serrated rocks, rises 3,042 feet from sea-level, on the shores of Loch Slapin. This view is seen on the road to Elgol and Loch Coruisk“.
Published by J. Arthur Dixon, Inverness, reference ”3594“, date thought to be around 1950.
”Cutting the corn of Torrin, Isle of Skye“
This postcard of the back-breaking cutting and gathering of corn is believed to date from the 1950s.
Published by J. Arthur Dixon, Inverness, reference ”85876“, date unknown.
”Skye hills on the road to Torrin, Isle of Skye“
The reverse of this card reads ”Skye hills on the road to Torrin, Isle of Skye. This is a view of the Blaven ridge (highest point 3,042 feet) from a point on the road about a mile from Loch Slapin“.
Photograph by Ernest J. Cooke, FRSA, ARPS. The Inverness Camera Club award an annual trophy in his honour to their photographer of the year.
Published by The Medici Society Ltd., London, reference ”1222“, date unknown.
”Blaven, 3,042 feet and Loch Slapin from Torrin“
The reverse of this card reads ”Blaven, 3,042 feet and Loch Slapin from Torrin, Isle of Skye, Scotland“.
Photograph by W. S. Thomson. Published by J. Arthur Dixon, Inverness, reference ”3315“, pre 1955, exact date unknown.
”Blaven and Loch Slapin, Isle of Skye“
The reverse of this card reads ”Blaven and Loch Slapin, Isle of Skye. From a colour photograph by W. S. Thomson“.
Photograph by W. S. Thomson. Published by Millar and Lang, Glasgow, reference ”152“, date unknown.
”The Cuillin Hills showing Blaven from Torrin, Isle of Skye“
Printed and Published by Jarrold & Sons Ltd., Norwich, date unknown.
Copyright: All of the postcards on blaven.com are in excess of 50 years old and out of copyright. Due credit is given to photographer and publisher where this known or shown on the original card. Please do not reproduce any of these postcards without acknowledging the photographer or publisher.
