Find out about history, legends, places and local people from times past.
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In the industrial estate there once stood a building, informally known as the “Pink House’. The house –originally the Ardross Inn– was owned by the Anderson family who farmed Lower Gledfield and also owned a pier, a sawmill and a coal yard, and operated the salmon net fishing. By Katharine
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Signal boxes are some of the best-loved icons of Britain’s historic railways. Dave Goulder recounts how he saved the redundant Ardgay Signal Box from “death row”. By Dave Goulder Dave, Dave, do you know – they’re going to burn the Ardgay Signal Box? They’ve smashed and burned the
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Uisdean Vass shares his experiences researching into his family’s wartime stories. His father, Andrew “Percy” Vass was posthumously awarded the Arctic Star medal. By Uisdean Vass By way of introduction, I am an unwilling exile from the beautiful lands of the Kyle of Sutherland. My mother, Johan “Joy” Vass,
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A look at the long history of our Post Office services in Ardgay and Bonar Bridge. From an Edwardian sorting office to computers, and from trains to lorries. By Donald Brown and Silvia Muras The Post Office building in Ardgay was in use all through the 80s and 90s. The
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Lady Valerie Meux was probably one of the most eccentric persons to have stayed in the area. She had a high phaeton pulled by zebras, a roller skating rink at home and collected almost 2,000 Egyptian artifacts. She and her husband Sir Henry Meux were tenants of Alladale in
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By Phyllis Hannah 2020 saw the closure of Ardgay Scottish Rural Women Institute, the very first to open in the area in 1918, followed by Culrain/Invershin one year later in 1919. The following account is adapted from an article by Phyllis Hannah published in a recent issue of SRWI
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A look at the long history of our Post Office services in Ardgay and Bonar Bridge. From horse-drawn mail to the arrival of trains, and from motorbikes to postbuses. (Part 1) By Donald Brown & Silvia Muras The first Post Office was opened in Ardgay in 1820, and was named
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How the small-but-mighty midges stopped a train By Anna MacRae MacDonald They have cut short many a walk, the midges, but did you know that they also stopped a train? An actual passenger train! It was the north-bound express engine pulling ten carriages, intending to complete its usual route through
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It was built in 1792 by George Dempster of Skibo with the aim to improve social and economic conditions in this area and as an alternative to clearing lands for sheep. By Lynne Mahoney It’s hard to imagine what people in 1792 thought when they first saw the ambitious
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A Bronze Age treasure, an Iron Age crannog, a small henge, a hut circle, cairns... There is evidence of human habitation in the shores of Loch Migdale for more than 4,000 years. In May 1900, while placing explosives to blast a granite knoll to the west of Loch Migdale,
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We reproduce here some poignant first person accounts on everyday life during wartime, most of them taken from Sara Horne’s Bonar Bridge booklets, printed in the year 2000. Angus Sutherland “During the war Bonar was a centre for military personnel. There were 400 Canadian Forestry troops stationed at Invershin.
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Few Scots ever admitted to listening to German propaganda radio broadcasts during the Second World War. A fewer still realized that the original Lord Haw Haw was a disgraced former officer from the Seaforth Highlanders. By Paul Cowan Norman Baillie-Stewart was jailed in the Tower of London after being caught