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, […]
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Heritage
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
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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
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When the landscape has feelings
Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history and origins of place names around our area A stream falling into the Einig, a tributary of
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Birds
Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history and origins of place names around our area The origin of the place name Gledfield has different
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
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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
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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
Pictish place names
Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history and origins of place names around our area The consensus amongst scholars is that Pictish is a
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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
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