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Attribution: unknown (Procession in High Street for Diamond Jubilee 1897)
Read about the Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust (ABCT), memorial at Tain Airfield
Look back at the history of Tain through photos from the late 1800s to more modern times.
On the 25 May 179, Sir John Sinclair, Baronet of Ulbster in Caithness wrote to over nine hundred Parish ministers throughout Scotland asking them to contribute to a Statistical Inquiry by answering as best they could,a series of one hundred and sixty-six Queries respecting each Parish.
The New (or Second) Statistical Account of Scotland built on the previous work carried out by Sir John Sinclair for the First Statistical Accounts by including the knowledge of local doctors and schoolmasters. The Second Statistical Accounts were published between 1834 and 1845.
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