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 […]
Heritage
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
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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
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Forests and Forestry People
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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Fifty shades of landscape
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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Horses
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,
The thunder did roll
300,000 to 1. Those are the odds of being struck by lightning in the UK.Ā The chances of being fatally struck are speculated to be
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Food rationing & bananas
Has our relationship to food changed during the coronavirus crisis? Stockpiling, shortages, local sourcing, and self-sufficiency are now on everyoneās lips. William Mackenzie shares his
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The Fairy Trinkets of Invernauld
Legend of a young man, his family and a gift from the fairies Many years ago, a young couple who lived in a cottage near
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I wish I had asked my granny!
I wonder how many of the Kyle Chronicle readers have said that, I know I have. I had been asked to deliver a presentation to
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