Last week, on the way to Dundonnell, Peter and Big Ted travelled on ‘Destitution road’. We stopped at Fain, where there was once an Inn.
Inverness Courier, 25th October 1849:
Ross-shire Chronicle, 10th November 1857:
Fain Inn, Ordnance Survey book, 1875:
Country Life, 21st July 1944:
1972, Mountain Rescue training, Fain Bothy:
The Scots Magazine, October 1974:
This photograph, for which there is no date, reveals the ruin of Fain Inn [on the left]. Only the building on the right survives [it later became a bothy] and is now full of interesting graffiti.
On Wednesday, 3rd September, I added, in coloured chalk, this graffiti:
