Fearn, Balintore and Hilton Libraries
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Book Library
While building this site we have accumulated a lot of information that we felt was best gathered together in different books. We hope you will enjoy reading them.
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Photograph Library
Over the years we have been very fortunate to have been given access to many historic photographs and permission to display them on the website. We have now collated them into different albums. We hope you enjoy viewing in them.
Click on photo album to view thumbnails and then click thumbnail to see the full size images
Click on photo album to view thumbnails and then click thumbnail to see the full size images
Click on photo album to view thumbnails and then click thumbnail to see the full size images
Fearn Down To The Sea
An account of life in the fishing villages of Hilton, Balintore and Shandwick by Jessie Macdonald and Anne Gordon. [Written in 1971] Anne Gordon died on 29 September 2015 and RCHS wishes to reiterate appreciation of her willingness to share her work, which is a wonderful legacy to leave behind. We are please to have the text of the book in our book library.
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Fearn WW1
Fearn WW1
The photos in this album are from the Ross-shire Journal during the 1914-1918 War. Newspaper copies had been deposited with Dingwall Museum but over the years had become rather fragile and were in danger of disintegrating and so it was felt that this valuable record should not be lost.
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Fearn War Memorial
Fearn War Memorial
The war memorial photographs on this site were originally the work of Mr John W Bruce. He has subsequently developed the website http://www.rosswarmemorials.org.uk which gives much more detail.
