Leather Football Brora Heritage Centre This is an old-fashioned leather football. It has an inflatable inner and leather outer casing. Inners were traditionally made from pigs’ bladders, before the use of rubber today. We are not sure what type of inner this has....
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...
Cycle Stand Brora Heritage Centre This ingenious device holds the wheel of a bicycle. The bicycle is rolled into the open arm and, once over a pivot, the arm, and its opposite counterpart, clamps the rim of the wheel and the bicycle is held upright and stable. Due to...
Box Brownie 2 CameraBrora Heritage Centre This Box Brownie 2 camera is a great example of the camera that transformed who was able to take photographs. It was the first mass-produced and affordable camera, developed at the start of the twentieth century. The...
Film Strips Battery ProjectorHighland Museum of Childhood This handheld projector from the 1950s would have been considered hi-tech when it first became available to buy. It was battery operated, making it mobile for use anywhere. However, in the 1950s, batteries were...
