The hoeing match
Back in the 1940s and 50s, the hoeing of the turnip, a time-consuming and back breaking task was made into a competition, alternating each year …
Heritage
The Scottish Rosswell?
An unidentified object thought to have been a Russian Sputnik satellite was found on the hillside near Ardgay in 1962 by a shepherd named Donald …
Stranded whales at Dornoch Firth
In October 1927, a school of more than a hundred whales was stranded in the Dornoch Firth near Ardgay and Bonar Bridge. Martin Alister Campbell …
Forests and Forestry People
An overview of the history of the forestry industry in the Kyle of Sutherland, by Norman Davidson, curator of the Forestry Memories website Many of …
Horses
Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history and origins of placenames around our area Toponyms from the various names for horse are very common, …
The thunder did roll
300,000 to 1. Those are the odds of being struck by lightning in the UK. The chances of being fatally struck are speculated to be …
Food rationing & bananas
Has our relationship to food changed during the coronavirus crisis? Stockpiling, shortages, local sourcing, and self-sufficiency are now on everyone’s lips. William Mackenzie shares his …
The Fairy Trinkets of Invernauld
Legend of a young man, his family and a gift from the fairies Many years ago, a young couple who lived in a cottage near …
I wish I had asked my granny!
I wonder how many of the Kyle Chronicle readers have said that, I know I have. I had been asked to deliver a presentation to …
The eagle, the Fraser child, and the tragedy that never was
“I hope you will forgive a stranger intruding on your sorrow, which must be so deep, but the story was so heart-rending I could not …
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