Butter ChurnUllapool Museum This butter churn would have been used in a rural Highland home. Throughout World War Two, the whole of the UK was subject to rationing. This made everyday commodities like butter hard to come by. Luckily, butter is very simple to make....
Freshwater Pearl MusselsGrantown Museum Freshwater pearl mussels are large molluscs that live in the bottom of clean, fast-flowing rivers. The River Spey is a vital breeding sanctuary for the mussels, which can live for up to a hundred years. Pearl fishing was once...
Milk CartonGrantown Museum Auchernack Farm is located near Grantown-on-Spey and has been run by the Smith family since 1936. For many years it operated as a dairy farm and supplied local shops with milk in its own branded packaging. Today there are only around ten...
Butter StampUllapool Museum This butter stamp would have been used for creating a design on a block of warm butter. Stamps were sometimes used by farmers and commercial dairy companies as a way of labelling their produce, functioning as an early form of ‘trademark’....
Glass Milk BottleGrantown Museum Glass milk bottles were once the most common way to package milk. In the mid-1900s, there were over 300 dairy farms across the Highlands. Many, like J. A. Grant sold milk in their own branded bottles, delivered to customers by milkmen....
