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Attribution: unknown (Greenhill street in Dingwall looking North)

Dingwall Events in Old Photographs

[All photos courtesy of Dingwall Museum Trust unless otherwise stated.]

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Archie Macrae's bus, JS7693, waiting outside Royal Bank in Dingwall. Note cobbled roadway. Archie Macrae operated a bus service (Monday - Saturday) from North Kessock to Dingwall. As well as carrying passengers Archie conveyed whatever his customers had ordered from ironmongers, butchers, bakers, grocers, and even garage spares! [Photo source unknown]

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Three coaches at Dingwall Station (late 19th century).

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Decline of the Ferry.

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At Dingwall Ferry.

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Cars and Lorries in Grant Street (1960s?)

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Cars, bicycles and motorcycles outside what became (or had been) the Post Office and later Morganti's shop and restaurant.

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Gunn's carriage outside Robertson's (now National) Hotel in 1900.

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Various delivery carts outside shops in High Street. The building was demolished (late 60s/early 1970s?) and became Woolworths, which in turn closed nationally in 2009, and re-opened as The Factory Shop in 2010.

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Cars, vans and ambulance outside garage in Tulloch street. (MacKay Bros., Motor Engineers, later Tesco store and car park and, in 2006, Lidl supermarket.)

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Baker's van with horse (house possibly in Craig Road). It is recalled that this van was a familiar sight in the late 1940s and early 1950s when its route took it to the farms along the Old Evanton Road, to Evanton and back to source, driven by "Jimmy the baker".

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Progress - various carts, one car, one motorcycle outside the National Hotel, pre-WW1.

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Plaque at Dingwall Station. [Photo RCHS] The plaque reads: This railway station was used as a tea stall for sailors and soldiers from 20th September 1915 until 12th April 1919 in connection with the Ross and Cromarty County Branch Red Cross Society during which period 134,864 men were supplied with tea.

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Plaque at Dingwall Station [Photo RCHS] Plaque reads: The Royal Navy train known as the Jellicoe Express stopped here. From 1917 it ran daily between London and Thurso during both world wars. It was named after Admiral Sir John Jellicoe and carried service personnel to and from Naval bases around the country, including Scapa Flow. This memorial is dedicated to the men and women who travelled and worked on it. [Photo RCHS]

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Car comes to grief somewhere in Dingwall area. [|Photo source and details unknown.]

Armed Forces Day 2009

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Dingwall Remembrance Events

In order to mark the centenary of the ending of World War 1, Dingwall Royal British Legion members, in association with Lord Lieutenant Mrs Janet Bowen, CVO, Seaforth Highlanders Association, local councillors and clergy, and numerous dedicated individuals from within the community, met to consider how this significant anniversary might be met within the town.

Attribution: Mrs Pat Macleod of Dingwall Museum.

50th Anniversary of Pefferside Park

Thanks are due to Mrs Pat Macleod, Dingwall Museum, for permission to reproduce photographs of the celebration of 50 years of Pefferside Park.

Attribution: the 3 photos in this section: Mrs Pat Macleod, Dingwall Museum

Dingwall Events

Dingwall Events in Old Photographs

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Armed Forces Day 2009

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Dingwall Armed Forces Day 2009

Dingwall Remembrance Events

50th Anniversary of Pefferside Park

The Secretary, Ross and Cromarty Heritage Society, Tigh na Cadalach, Hawthorn Road, Muir of Ord. IV6 7RL.

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