When travelling the Road to the Isles from Fort William

to Mallaig you will find at Lochailort Head a disused Church named Our Lady of the Braes. Originally consecrated in 1874 the Church was finally closed in 1964. In 1983 the Church was used as a location in the film classic Local Hero.
Close by to Our Lady of the Braes is Inverailort House which has a rather sad photographic connection. Christian Cameron born in 1859 was an heiress who ran the Inverailort House estate through the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Christian Cameron was also a keen photographer who over many years amassed a large collection of photographic plates. Most notable of all were her landscapes of Scotland. On returning to Inverailort House in the middle of June 1940 from London she discovered that the Ministry of Defence had requisitioned Inverailort House for use as a commando training base. All of her possessions were removed from the house by the army and in the process many of her glass plates were smashed. Christian Cameron died the following year having never fully recovered from the trauma and upset. Her work is remembered in print as The Cameron Collection: Moidart and Arisaig in the 19th Century. An Album of Photographs by Christian Cameron (1859-1941). File 3519.