Lockout PosterGlencoe Folk Museum The workers of the Ballachulish Slate Quarry went on strike in July 1902, in what was known as a ‘lockout’. The lockout was planned to last for one year, but went on for eighteen months. The quarry workers objected to the dismissal...
Model of Romanian HouseUllapool Museum This model house was made by a Romanian crew member of a factory fishing boat. During the 1970s and 1980s Scottish fishing ports experienced a mackerel fishery boom. Fleets of factory ships known as klondykers arrived from the...
Miner’s LampBrora Heritage Centre This may look like a fairly ordinary lamp, but it measures only 4cm! Brora’s early coal miners used tiny lamps like these, known as tallow lamps. Resembling a mini-tea pot, the wee lamp was filled with animal fat (tallow) and a...
Brass Commando Knife & BadgeBrora Heritage Centre This knife belonged to the late James ‘Jim’ Manson Sutherland (1912-2006) of Brora. Jim had already joined the British Army by the beginning of World War Two and had served in Palestine, where he learnt to speak...
Train Closure NoticeGrantown Museum The Grantown railway closed on Monday 11th October 1965. The railway had been operating for over one hundred years, and was a key route for both trade and tourism. The line was closed as part of the ‘Beechings Cuts’, a series of...
