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 …
Heritage
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 …
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