Not sure if readers overseas can access BBC I Player, If you can you should watch this documentary on the Oil Boom of the 1970`s and the transformation of the Cromarty Forth, the jobs created and the money that could be made. It must have also been an amazing and bit crazy time with folk getting so much money as can be seen with he footage of the Piggery - the local Pub....
Were just back from Bike packing around there and while I get the posts edited up watch this for entertainment...
The true story of when Oil was discovered in the North Sea and the Uk needed Oil Rigs fast to get the oil in 400 feet seas which had not been done before and many thought it would be impossible to build rigs of such a height to drill such a depth in the hostile North Sea. 5000 men and some hardy woman came from all over the world to the Cromarty Firth where the way of life was changed forever, earning 4 times the wage of anywhere else it was a boom town during those years of construction...
More soon...
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