Historylinks Archive

Dornoch's wise blend of old and new

Copy of a newspaper extract from the Press and Journal Weekend Review c1982 entitled 'Dornoch's wise blend of old and new, with 11 monochrome photographs of prominent buildings and features of Dornoch. The full account can be accessed from the pdf link below....

Date Added: 04 July 2025

A golf legend lives on in North Carolina

Copy of an extract from the Northern Times entitled 'A golf legend lives on in North Carolina' summarising Donald Ross' golf cours...

Date Added: 04 July 2025

The Golfing Charms of Dornoch

Digital document of Northern Times article, 'The golfing charms of Dornoch' probably published in 1983 given 'Diary dates' at the...

Date Added: 03 July 2025

Well, well an old well at Dornoch

Digital copy of an extract from the Northern Times October 23rd 1987 recording Dornoch Heritage Society alerting those involved wi...

Date Added: 03 July 2025

Notebook of Police handwritten notes

Digital copy of 7 handwritten pages from a Police red covered notebook. The first page has notes of the wreck of the Brig 'Courie...

Date Added: 03 July 2025

Mewlancholy fatal accident

Digital copy of a handwritten extract from the Inverness Advertiser 24th August 1860 titled Melancholy Fatal Accident recording th...

Date Added: 03 July 2025

Excavation of souterrain and roundhouse at Cyderhall

Digital copy of a 16 page report with map and drawings by Robert W Pollock in respect of an excavation of souterrain and roundhous...

Date Added: 03 July 2025

Artwork of the High Street Dornoch

Digital image of an newspaper or magazine extract dated October 21 1950 of an artwork of the High Street Dornoch by Ian Ramsey(?)...

Date Added: 03 July 2025

Queen Victoria would have been amused

Digital copy of an extract from the Northern Times of March 1992 recording the return of the newly cleaned portrait of Queen Victo...

Date Added: 03 July 2025

Memorial gives way to junction

Copy of an extract from the Northern Times published on February 26th 1992 recording the removal of the Dornoch War Memorial from...

Date Added: 03 July 2025

Comments

This picture is of George Sutherland and children from his second marriage and not John Sutherland, George was a brother of my great great grandfather Robert Su Used to visit Aunt Nan and Aunt Jessie when they lived in Polk City Florida. Fun memories My grandparents James Macdonald was upholsterer at Skibo Castle my grandmother Louise Brodie was a seamstress at Skibo prior to Andrew Carnegie moving to Ameri In trying to find out a couple of things Where the rafts of timber were landed in France after A day Any information on the forestry corps in the Ardennes Rev .prof. George Middleton is my 8 th great grandfather. Many of the family are born , Married and buried in St Machar ,Aberdeen. Charles Gordon 1664- 1740 David Brownjohn (my Dad) is the gentleman standing at the back with his hands in his pockets I doubt that is Arthur Ryle as he was quite a bit larger of a man. He also did not become captain until 1905. The captain at 1900 was William Llewellyn Hacon. Produced by kitchen tala ware Also my father was awarded this same but I know very little about what regiment he was etc any advice or help would be appreciated kind regards terrymeager It's nice to see these old pictures. My grandmother was Jessie Ross. Her son, David, was in the US Army and worked in law enforcement Ohio. David Ross wasn't in the USMC. He was in the Army and served in Vietnam.