Find out about history, legends, places and local people from times past.
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W.A.M. MacKenzie gives a colourful account of the Trials in the 1950s. This event is still being held at Invercharron Farm as part of the Scottish National Sheep Dog Trials. By W.A.M. MacKenzie In order to live up to its full title, Creich and Kincardine Sheepdog
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By Malcolm Bangor-Jones In 1893 the Airdens crofters waged their own land war. They withheld their rents and on several occasions forcibly prevented sheriff officers from serving legal papers. Prosecutions followed riotous proceedings and four crofters - subsequently known as the Airdens Martyrs - served short prison sentences. The term
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“She would not give her stepson the time of the day.” A victorian global celebrity, Mary Caroline Blair (née Michell), Duchess of Sutherland, had a life worthy of a period drama. One of the better known landmarks of the Kyle of Sutherland is Carbisdale Castle, built for the second wife
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Originally regarded as temporary, it is over 100 years old. The hall has been linked to education and worship throughout most part of the 20th century.
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The true story behind the Rosehall bridge’s byname By Anna MacRae MacDonald The Minister’s Bridge is a beautiful single-track stone bridge over a deep, rocky ravine at Allt Mhor ('big burn') in a remote area between the Sutherland villages of Rosehall and Lairg. The source of