Communion Token Cromarty Courthouse Museum Communion tokens were widely used in the Presbyterian Churches of Scotland. Parishioners would need to be approved by the elders of the church. Those showing adequate knowledge and thought to be living ‘upright’ lives...
Light from a Bicycle Seaboard Centre Simple objects like this help us to understand how people of the past would have lived. Bicycle travel was common and this light belonged to Robert Ross who lived in the village of Balintore, on the Easter Ross Peninsula. He...
Communion Plates and Chalices Cromarty Courthouse Museum These simple Eucharistic vessels come from Resolis Parish Church, built in 1767 and closed in 2005. The plates were used to hold the bread, broken into pieces, to be shared amongst the communicants. The...
‘Spitalfields’ Silk DressGlencoe Folk Museum This beautiful dress takes its name from Spitalfields, London, where it was originally made with brocaded woven silk. It is believed to have belonged to an upper-class Jacobite supporter during the 1740s....
Hugh Miller Medal Cromarty Courthouse This medal gives us an insight into the interests and schooldays of George Innes, a Cromarty resident who went on to pursue a long career in education and civic affairs. It was awarded at Cromarty School for an essay on geology in...
