Rose Street Foundry gets its very own piece of history back with Spitfire propeller made during Second World War.
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They were the iconic aircraft that helped win the Second World War.
And now an Inverness pub has its very own piece of history – connected back to the days where the venue itself was at the centre of the manufacture of Spitfire parts.
Rose Street Foundry now has its very own propeller from one of the war machines – celebrating the heritage of the former factory.
General manager Billy McKechnie hopes to hang it on a wall in the gastropub in the coming weeks as a talking point for customers.
He said: “When they were renovating the Rose Street Foundry they found out about this propeller at an antique shop.
“It was quite possibly made right here as most of those Spitfire propellers were made at Rose Street Foundry.
“There's not a lot of these things lying around.
“It came from a crashed aircraft. There's a good chance it came from here.”
As well as the manufacture of Spitfire parts, Rose Street Foundry played another key part in the winning of the Second World War.
Workers at the site were involved in the construction of Operation PLUTO (PipeLine Under The Ocean).
This was a subsea pipeline going from the Isle of Wight all the way across the English Channel to provide fuel for invading forces at Normandy.
