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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 way …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
How the small-but-mighty midges stopped a train They have cut short many a walk, the midges, but did you know that they also stopped a …