Articles from Tain & District Museum
A formal agreement or Bond of Alliance, between the Chief of Clan Ross George Ross of Balnagown and his brother Nicholas Ross of Pitcalnie. Written at Balnagown Castle on the 22nd April 1588. Balnagown Documents, No.1008.
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Flying-Officer Neil Donaldson Forbes is awarded the George Medal and the D.F.M by the King at Buckingham Palace.
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Tain attempts a 'Hammer House of Horror' version of the Disney Film 'Babe'.
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A transcript of a letter sent to John Ross, 'threatening to blow up his house with dynamite while he was asleep'.
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The Chief of the Ross Clan pays 'blood money' after his kinsmen commit a double murder in Tain in November of 1583.
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Bobby Sellar of Tain's 1,000-mile journey across war-torn Europe for love.
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'The Russians of Ross-shire' or the Massacre of the Rosses. A pamphlet by Donald Ross concerning the Clearances at Greenyards in 1854.
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An article from the Ross-shire Journal, which describes in detail the Shops in Tain during the Christmas of 1895.
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In June of 1676, David Ross the Laird of Balnagown and Chief of the Ross Clan attacked and 'cut with his whinger' his kinsman Walter Ross. A legal agreement in the Pitcalnie Paper records a meeting at Tain, the following month, where the Ross Clansmen bring their Chief to account by threatening 'to withdraw from following or serving him'.
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