Fish Box StencilUllapool Museum There have been settlements along the north coast of Scotland for many centuries, motivated in large part due to the opportunities to fish here. This fish box stencil was for R Spears & Co West Coast Kippers, a company based in...
Whale VertabraTarbat Discovery Centre A vertebra is a section of a spine. This belonged to a sperm whale, and measures over a metre across. It is believed to belong to a whale that became stranded on the rocks near Portmahomack in 1796. The dead whale, which was...
Harbour BooksTarbat Discovery Centre These large ledgers provide an insight into maritime trade in Portmahomack during the 1800s. They give details of where ships arriving into Portmahomack harbour had sailed from, how long they stayed, and their cargo. At this time,...
Harbour LightTarbat Discovery Centre This nineteenth-century harbour light was originally used as the port (or left-hand side) navigation light on a ship. It was later reused on a pole at the end of Portmahomack harbour wall as a guiding light for boats returning to...
Photograph of Cromarty FishertownCromarty Courthouse Museum In 1903, local photographer Willie John Smith took a series of photographs of the people and scenes in the fishertown of Cromarty. Photographs like this are an important social document about the poverty...
