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 …
Heritage
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 …
Wartime memories
We reproduce here some poignant first person accounts on everyday life during wartime. Taken from Sarah Horne’s Bonar Bridge booklets, printed in the year 2000. …
Why research your family history?
Lairg & District Learning Centre launches new Family History course Researching your family history can be an exciting, frustrating and surprising pastime. You can preserve …
Rosehall links with slavery
In Guyana’s Berbice region, a handful of interrelated families from the north Highlands were the first to build sugar-cane plantations.
Brothers in arms
Two world wars. Two war memorials. Two sets of siblings. Two Highland families: The Gordons and The Macleans.
Pat, the Irishman
W. A. M. MacKenzie remembers this local character and his horses, two big working Clydesdales used for clearing timber from the nearby forest
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 …
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 …