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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 13h

Marine Terrace, #Rosemarkie, c1905

[source: HLH Libraries]

ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 19h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

#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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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

[source: Highland Livestock Heritage Society]

ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 4d

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

[photo: John Sinclair]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

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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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 6d

A small selection of Duncan Macpherson's panoramic photographs of #Kyleakin, #Skye taken in the late 1920s and early 1930s

[source: Skye & Lochalsh Archive Service]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 6d

A Ross & Cromarty County Council mobile library at #Avoch in 1978

[source: HLH Libraries]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 7d

#Alness Station, 1950s

[photo from the Highland Railway Society's Collections]

ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 8d

The view out to Guinard Bay from the Post Office and filling station at #Laide, Wester Ross in 1970

[photo: Ken MacKenzie / Highland Council]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 8d

40 Bornesketaig, near Kilmuir in the north of #Skye, in 1970. The house was built circa 1880 and was occupied until around 1980. The person at the spinning wheel is Jonathan Macdonald, founder of the nearby Skye Museum of Island Life.

[photo: Alec Steel; source: HLH Libraries]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 8d

Laying the foundation stone for the new public library in #Thurso, #Caithness on this day in 1908. It was built with the help of a grant from Andrew #Carnegie. Previously, the library was in the Town Hall.

[original photo: the Johnston Collection, Wick Society; source: North Coast Visitor Centre]

ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 9d

Taken on this day in 1966, this photograph shows the demolition of the old Post Office in Queensgate, #Inverness. It had been built between 1888 and 1890 to replace the previous Post Office which was located in the High Street

[photo: Dr William J. Bethune]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 10d

MacBrayne's MV 'Lochnevis' at Kyle of Lochalsh, circa late-1930s

[photo: Duncan Macpherson; source: #Skye & #Lochalsh Archive Centre]

ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 10d

The official opening ceremony of the new Ness Bridge on this day in 1961. Provost of #Inverness, Allan Ross, cut the red tape on the east side of the bridge before leading a procession across (in very heavy rain). The bridge had been open to traffic since 7th August

[photo Dr William James Bethune]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 10d

John Cobb assessing the conditions on Loch Ness in the days before his ill-fated attempt to break the world water speed record in his boat, 'Crusader', the world's first purpose-built jet hydroplane, September 1952

[photo Jimmy Nairn; source: Highland Photographic Archive]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 11d

#Shetland ponies carrying peat near #Unst, undated

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

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 11d

A former MacBrayne's bus operated by MacAulay Brothers at Lochboisdale, South #Uist, late-1960s

[photo: John Sinclair]

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 12d

Isabel Mackenzie from Letters, on the west side of Loch Broom, with two of her dogs, c1930s

[photo from the collections at #Ullapool Museum]