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The history of Brora, in the parish of Clyne, on the east coast of Sutherland, is dominated by its long industrial past. These industries, including coal mining, salt panning, tweed production, distilling, electricity generation, etc., go back at least to 1598, though the coal is first referred to in a charter of 1529. They were encouraged by the Earls and Countesses (later Dukes and Duchesses) of Sutherland and it is perhaps the financial support provided by the estate, in conjunction with the availability of a wide range of resources (both natural and human) which made Brora the ‘Industrial Capital of the North’ in the late nineteenth century.

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