Dr Grant’s Teapot Glencoe Folk Museum This teapot belonged to a much-loved Highland GP, Dr Lachlan Grant, who served the community of Ballachulish for 45 years until his death in 1945. The teapot is special because of its design which features a stirrer attached to...
Weighing ScalesNairn Museum These weighing scales, with a removable pan, were essential for weighing produce and for baking. It’s possible that they may have been used in shop settings to weigh produce, including vegetables. This would have been around the time...
Lemonade Bottle Nairn Museum This clear glass bottle would have held lemonade and was manufactured for A W Mackintosh. This shop was well known in Nairn. Lemonade was a popular and refreshing drink, typically made from fresh lemon juice, water and sugar. It would have...
Standard MeasuresCromarty Courthouse Museum These impressive measuring vessels are the legal standard measures used by the County of Cromarty to ensure that shop keepers, farmers, and other businessmen were maintaining standards and trading legally. Most of us are...
Melville’s PistolsUllapool Museum These decorative duelling pistols were owned by Robert Melville, an important figure in the establishment of Ullapool. The village was founded in 1788 by the British Fisheries Society who appointed Melville to construct the first...
