Dr Ross - Commemorated at Home ⋆ Ross and Cromarty Heritage

Dr Ross – Commemorated at Home

Attribution: unknown (Procession in High Street for Diamond Jubilee 1897)

Commemorated at home

“To the Glory of God and in undying memory of Dr. Elizabeth Ness MacBean Rose, who voluntarily gave her life during the European war to help the typhus stricken Serbian soldiers and died in the Military Hospital, Kragujevac, Serbia 14th February 1915. This tablet has been erected and hospital beds endowed in Serbia by public subscription in remembrance of the noble life and sacrifice of one whose home was for many years in Tain. Greater love hath no man than this.”

Attribution: Mrs Edith Ross of Tain

Commemorative Screen at York Minster – in memory of the 6 doctors, including Elizabeth Ross, who died in the 1914-18 war

Attribution: Mrs Edith Ross of Tain

Commemorative wall plaque in the Collegiate Church, Tain

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Tain » Tain History in Old Photos

1864 Tain Railway Station under construction

1880s schooner St Duthus at Great Yarmouth

1889 start of Easter Ross cycling club 12 mile race

1889 - This photograph shows the start of the Easter Ross cycling club's 12 mile race. It was taken at the rear of Urquhart's shoe shop in the High Street by William Smith.

1890 the Mackays at Rheguille

1890 The Oddfellows Hall building site

1890s - An unusual picture of a bullock cart.

1897 Planting Tree for Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee

1897 Procession for Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee

1897 Procession in the High Street to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

1907 Sir Arthur Bignold arrives at Tain station

1907 Sir Arthur Bignold receiving Freedon of the Burgh of Tain

1907 Stafford Street

1910 - The United Free Church choir outside the Collegiate Church

1910 Annual inspection of towns water springs Culpleasant

1910 Miss Henderson out for a drive

1914 - Royal Navy Air Service seaplane taking off from Tain River.

1920 Carriers at Tain Station

1920 Local ploughing match

1920 St Duthus cycle and motor works Sutherland street

1930 Cars outside St Duthus hotel

1950s an 1899 Wolseley from Lands End to John o Groats

1957 High Street ironmonger's shop of Wallace & Fraser burning down.

1966 Queen Mother arriving for towns 900th anniversary celebrations

1966 Queen Mother outside Tolbooth with Provost Hay

1974 Last Town Council outside Tolbooth

2018 Unveiling of memorial

On 11 August 2018 Kenneth Bannerman of ABCT, aided by Geoff Bolton, a leading aircraftsman who served at RAF Tain during his National Service in 1954 and who now lives in the area, unveiled the memorial on the site of the wartime airfield.

2018 Wartime memorial unveiled

Some of the local people who attended.