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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 4h

Postcard showing the South Esplanade at #Lerwik, #Shetland late-19th/early-20th century

[source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/1/22]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 10h

Passengers transferring from a steamer to a smaller boat in order to be taken ashore at an island with no suitable pier for the steamer to come alongside, c1890s/1900s. One of the passengers appears to be wearing an Inverness Cape

[source: Joseph Cook Collection; Inverness Museum & Art Gallery]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 1d

L-R: Ruby Corbett, Elspeth Maclean and Hector Mackenzie at #Inchnadamph in 1936

[photo couresy of Willie Morrison]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 1d

Shops, including the famous Fraser & McColl, in Eastgate, #Inverness c1985

[photo: Raymond Meiklejohn]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 2d

'Danny the Comm' behind the bar of the Commercial Bar, #Dingwall, 1950s

[source: Highland Livestock Heritage Society]

ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 3d

Main Street, Kyle of Lochalsh in 1969

[photo: Ken MacKenzie / Highland Council]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 4d

Buses in #Wick, #Caithness, October 1961

[photo: John Sinclair]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 4d

#Plockton Station with HR 63 'Inverness' on a ballast train, October 1897

[source: Highland Railway Society]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 4d

Stèisean A' Phluic le HR 63 'Inverness' air trèana balaiste, An Dàmhair 1897

[neach-fiosrachaidh: Comunn Rèile na Gàidhealtachd]

ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 5d

John Macpherson (left) and his son, Allan (right) outside the family's sporting goods shop in Inglis Street, #Inverness in 1939. The soldier has yet to be identified. The shop sent camans (#shinty sticks) to Highland Regiments during both #WWI and #WWII

[source: Highland Folk Museum]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 5d

Carradale Junior Choir at the 1968 Royal National Mòd in #Dunoon, #Argyll. The choir won the trophy for Best Action Song.

This year's Mòd begins this evening in Fort William with a torchlight parade and the opening concert.

[photo courtesy of Winnie Gordon]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 6d

Murdo Mackenzie, 'Mord Long', (left), and Kenneth Mackenzie, 'Crùbaidh', both from Port Henderson, outside the garages of Loch Maree Hotel, undated

[photo from the collections at #Gairloch Museum]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 6d

The aftermath of the fire which destroyed the Grantown Picture House cinema and adjacent premises in the early hours of 9 October 1933

[source: Grantown Museum]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 7d

Marine Terrace, #Rosemarkie, c1905

[source: HLH Libraries]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 7d

Mrs Kennedy, proprietor of the Dalwhinnie Inn (now the Loch Ericht Hotel) and Calum "Piobair" Macpherson, the famous piper and bagpipe tutor on this date on 1861 when Queen Victoria and Prince Albert spent the night at the Inn

[source: #Dalwhinnine Voices / Dalwhinne Community Council]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 8d

Cleaning clothes and other textiles by trampling them in a wooden tub, c1930s. The body of water just visible near the top of the image is Loch Broom

[source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/1/06]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 8d

#Inverness from Tomnahurich, c. late-19th century. The land in the foreground was predominantly farmland until well into the 20th century. The first houses were built here in the mid- to late-1920s with many more built in the years after World War II

[source: Inverness Museum & Art Gallery]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 9d

A fisherman discarding fish back into the sea at #Castlebay, #Barra, 1930s. The most likely reasons for this happening were that the day’s catch was greater than demand or that the fishermen were not prepared to accept the prices offered to them by the curers
[source: Inverness Museum & Art Gallery]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 10d

A woman outside a turf-roofed house, Isle of #Coll, late-19th/early-20th century. The postcard is titled “The Last Cottar, Coll”. A cottar is someone who occupied a small dwelling, usually in return for work. Unlike crofters, they had no security of tenure

[source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/1/21]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 10d

MV 'Clansman' in 1973 during her short stint on the #Ullapool - #Stornoway service. She was built at Aberdeen in 1964 and underwent a major refit at Troon in 1972/73 after which vehicles could "roll-on/roll-off" rather than be hoisted.

[photos: Ken MacKenzie / Highland Council]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 11d

Pony breeding at #Gerenish, South #Uist, in the 1930s

[source: Highland Livestock Heritage Society]

ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 11d

#Inverness Bus Station in Farraline Park, circa early-1960s

[photo: John Sinclair]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 12d

Barvas Ware comes from the village of #Barvas, in #Lewis. It was produced from the mid-19th century until about the 1930s. It was handmade, low fired, and glazed with milk. It was manufactured predominantly for the tourist market.

[from the collections at the Highland Folk Museum]

ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 12d

Action from the friendly between Inverness Thistle and @AberdeenFC at Kingsmills, #Inverness on 5th October 1953. It ended 3-3 with the Jags' goals scored by Donnie "Ginger" Mackenzie (2) and Andy "Jupie" Mitchell
#InvernessFootballMemories

ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 13d

MacBrayne's paddle steamer, 'Fusilier', in the Firth of #Clyde, circa early-1920s. Built by J. McArthur & Co. at Paisley in 1888, she was part of the David MacBrayne fleet until being sold in 1934

[source: HLH Archives, D17512/1/21]

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