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Three monochrome railway photographs

3 monochrome photographs of stations on the Dornoch Light Railway line.
These are: Skelbo, Cambusavie and The Mound...

Date Added: 20 November 2024

Dornoch Railway Postcard

Post card entitled "Dornoch to the Mound and back in one day". The card was posted to a London address on 7 September 1906....

Date Added: 20 November 2024

Book of Bagpipe Music

A Book of Bagpipe Music (coverless and missing several pages).

The book is displayed in the Highland Gatherings Display cabinet...

Date Added: 20 November 2024

Highland Bagpipe Music

Pipe Major W. Ross's Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music Book 2 published by Paterson's Publications Ltd.

"Welcome to Sutherla...

Date Added: 20 November 2024

Dornoch Pipe Band

A collection of 5 colour photographs of Dornoch Pipe Band taken in the 1980's with John Muir as Drum Major...

Date Added: 06 November 2024

Home made mace

A home made mace used for pipe band practice and fashioned from a pool cue....

Date Added: 06 November 2024

One pair hose

One pair hose as worn by a member of the pipe band....

Date Added: 06 November 2024

Ostrich feather busby

Ostrich feather busby as worn by a member of the pipe band...

Date Added: 06 November 2024

"Cathedral anniversary"

From the Northern Times of 6 September 2024
100 Years Ago - article about celebrations in connection with the 700th anniversary o...

Date Added: 06 November 2024

"Holiday complex plan"

From the Northern Times of 20 September 2024
%0 years ago on September 20 1974 - article regarding planning refusal for a holiday...

Date Added: 06 November 2024

Comments

I think this is Loch Buie House on the Isle of Mull I have a brassie made by D G mcCulloch in my hickory collection. I would like to know more about him. Regards Gabriel This photo is not John Sutherland Dornoch Town clerk/50 secretary of Royal Dornoch Golf club- you only have to compare it with those in your collection on golf This photo is from the 1905 Annual Tournament in which A. Gordon Simpson won the silver medal and Secretary Sutherland won the Platt Cup. Note Ryle's outfit is This photo is definitely the Annual Tournament of 1906 as that was the only visit Braid & Vardon on August 14. A. Gordon Simpson won the silver medal for the se I knew Jim Foster when he was on the committee of the RSGB and also on 2 metres when we used AM in the 1950s and early 60s In the early 1980s at Howick in KZ The Golfer in this photo is Hamish Sutherland Dornoch playing in the Carnegie Shield. He played in the final with Dornoch Member Stuart Shaw. Stuart Shaw wo My father served on HMS Dornoch from April 1944 to July 1945 when she was paid off. Other than her role at D-Day and a few bits my father told me I know little My uncle died in north Africa in May 1943. Trying to find a photo as no one has any. Mcgonigle was his last name. We had chairs like that in our home in dornoch when we live there in the 50-60 I am the 5x great Granddaughter of John Munro 1794-1870, would you have a record of his family? He married Isabella 1796-1868 she was also born in Scotland howe