200 years of post office (II)
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 …
Heritage
Remembering the Arctic Convoys
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 …
The flamboyant Lady Meux
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, …
History of Ardgay SRWI
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 …
200 years of Post Office
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 …
The Spinningdale Cotton Mill
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 …
The archaeology of Loch Migdale
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 …
The swarm
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 …
Second World War pillboxes
Eighty years ago, in 1940/41 more than 30 anti- invasion concrete structures were built around the Kyle of Sutherland and the Dornoch firth. These were …
Lord Mac Haw Haw
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 …