People living in Ballachulish and the surrounding area are being invited to become involved in a new local history project to gather the stories of the village's world famous slate quarries.
It gets underway inext week and is part of a wider project to conserve and interpret the Ballachulish Slate Arch (inclined plane), which was built to transport carts of dressed slate down from the quarries to boats on Loch Leven.
The local history project's co-ordinator, Verity Walker said: "Many local people have family memories of the quarry and some older residents even recall going up there as children and being allowed to work the slate alongside the men.
"The aim of our project is to help collect these memories and stories, and to look at how they can be shared with other local people and visitors. This project is particularly exciting as we will be using what we collect in a series of new interpretive panels at the slate arch and around the quarry and also in a new app which provides the opportunity for visitors to hear local voices speaking about the quarries via their tablets and smartphones."
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