Cigarette Lighter Pierced by a Bullet The Highlanders’ Museum This cigarette lighter belonged to a Private Tommy Fraser from the First Battalion Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. He was stationed in France during World War Two. The lighter is reported to...
Cigarette Case with Damage from a Bullet The Highlanders’ Museum This cigarette case belonging to a Private M Smith was damaged by a German bullet at Loos in October 1915. The Battle of Loos took place on the Western Front during World War One and was the...
Stoneware Ginger Beer Bottle Brora Heritage Centre This stoneware bottle once held ginger beer made in one of Bremner’s ‘lemonade factories’. With Brora becoming a resort destination around the turn of the century, with its beach, golf course, salmon rivers, and...
Chair from Strathnaver Clearances Strathnaver Museum This is one of two chairs that were rescued from one of the longhouses during the Strathnaver Clearances. During the early and mid-nineteenth century, tenants were evicted from the land to make way for sheep...
Original copy of Down to the Sea Seaboard Centre Down to the Sea documents life in the Seaboard villages and was made during a project led by local school teacher Jessie MacDonald from Hilton. Whilst teaching at Hilton of Cadboll Junior Secondary School in 1951-52,...
