Alness travel guide

Alness is a town in Ross and Cromarty, Highland, Scotland. The name is pronounced (roughly) Al'-niss by some Ross-shire residents and Oll-ness' by others. Divided by the River Averon, it is in two parishes, Alness in the west and Rosskeen in the east. Historically these were in different presbyteries. Population 4960 (2004)
The Alness we see today was thanks, in part, to Harold Wilson’s government of 1964. His famous phrase ‘the white heat of technological revolution’ could have been written with Easter Ross in mind. At the Labour Party conference in 1967 Wilson announced the building of two aluminium smelters. In November of that year planning permission for 500 council houses at Alness was passed. The census of 1961 put the population at 1,040, but all was about to change, when, in 1968, Trade Secretary, Anthony Crossland, announced in the Commons that British Aluminium were chosen to build the Invergordon Smelter. The other was built by Alcan in Northumberland. Also slightly further East on the North bank of the Cromarty Firth at Nigg Bay the construction of the Oil Fabrication Yard by Highlands Fabricators started in 1971 where large Oil Production Platforms would be built over the next 30 years. (...) more....

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