Brothers in arms
Two world wars. Two war memorials. Two sets of siblings. Two Highland families: The Gordons and The Macleans.
Two world wars. Two war memorials. Two sets of siblings. Two Highland families: The Gordons and The Macleans.
W. A. M. MacKenzie remembers this local character and his horses, two big working Clydesdales used for clearing timber from the nearby forest
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
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
The Scottish Rosswell? Read More »
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
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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
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Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history and origins of placenames around our area There are two different words for grey in Scottish Gaelic:
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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,
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
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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
Food rationing & bananas Read More »