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Friday, December 10, 2021

Fancy Bread

During the summer of 1889, the Royal Burgh of Tain was overrun with criminals. The local authorities were left with little option but to act. Morning raids were made on several premises, in late June, resulting in most of the town bakers being arrested and the shocking discovery of some 'Fancy Bread.'

Monday, December 06, 2021

Memories of HMS OWL

Memories of HMS OWL by Donetta Mackenzie

Monday, December 06, 2021

A Resume of life as a WREN at R.N.A.S. FEARN

A Resume of life as a WREN at R.N.A.S. FEARN by D.V. Walsh (nee Leiper)

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Childhood Memories of Inver

Interview between Nellie Haddow nee Skinner and Marie Macleod, October 1986.

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Tain Breweries

A look a the History of Brewing Ale in Tain by Margaret Urquhart.

Monday, November 22, 2021

The Chief of Clan Ross

Alexander Ross the ninth of Balnagown and Chief of Clan Ross by William MacGill, author of the Tain and Balnagown Documents

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

The Heron's Revenge

An unbelievable story of a bereaved heron who avenged the shooting of its mate.

Monday, November 08, 2021

Mary the Mermaid

A Sutherland Folk Tale by Helen Drever of Tain

Saturday, October 30, 2021

‘Corp cre’

Superstition in the Highlands from the John O’Groat Journal, July 17, 1879

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Hallowe’en in Tain

A tale of Halloween at Tain, from Ross-shire Memories and Sketches by D Munro Mackenzie, 1899.