The Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust (ABCT) Memorial ⋆ Ross and Cromarty Heritage

The Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust (ABCT) Memorial

Attribution: Photo copyright S. Fraser

Evanton Airfield Memorial

The Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust (ABCT) was established in 2006 with the aim of preserving historical details and records of airfields.

To this end the charity has erected a great number of memorials across the UK to ensure these heritage sites, the people and units serving there, are not forgotten.

On 13 August 2017 Highland Deephaven Industrial Park, the location of the former Evanton airfield ,became the latest site to have a memorial unveiled by ABCT.

For information on the work of the Trust see www.abct.org.uk

For information on research into Evanton wartime remains see www.archhighland.org.uk

A booklet, Evanton Wartime Remains, is available from Arch Highland for £7 including p&p (email as above) or £6 when collected from The Goods Shed, The Old Station, Strathpeffer, IV14 9DH

The Director General of the Trust, Kenneth Bannerman, addressed a group of heritage society representatives and villagers before unveiling the memorial.
Attribution: [Photo RCHS]

The inscription reads:
In memory of Evanton (Novar) Airfield. Opened 1922. Closed 1956. Dedicated to all units and personnel based here. Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Unveiled by Kenneth P Bannerman, Director General ABCT, 13.08.2017.

Attribution: [Photo ABCT]

View more photos of the airfield and memorial

We have a wide range of photographs of both the airfield during the war years and also of the ceremony of the unveiling of the memorial. We hope you will enjoy viewing these photographs.

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The Dods family who were tragically lost on The Natal in December 1915

John Henry Dods, Dalgheal, Evanton, his wife Annie Farrer, and their children Dorothy Elizabeth, Marcus Palliser and John Frederick, all of whom perished when HMS Natal exploded in the Cromarty Firth on 30 December 1915. The Dods family were guests at a party on board the Natal hosted by the commanding officer, Captain Eric Black and his wife and children. Other guests included three nurses from the hospital ship Drina, which was moored nearby.

Mrs Isabella Maclean beside the first milk separator to be introduced to Ross-shire

This is a photograph of the late Mrs Isabella Maclean, of "Castle Needle", Balconie Street, Evanton (date unknown, but possibly late 1920s), beside the first milk separator to be introduced to Ross-shire, and located at Balconie Farm. The building (a dairy) behind Mrs Maclean has been restored in recent years