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Attribution: unknown (Greenhill street in Dingwall looking North)

Dingwall Sheriff Court

The courthouse dates from the 1830s and was designed by Thomas Brown, who also designed the courthouses at Dornoch and Stonehaven.

The former prison and police station was built in 1842, with an addition in 1845, with the purpose of complementing the existing Sheriff Court House facilities. About 60 years later, the opening of Inverness prison led to the closure of the Dingwall prison.

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Dingwall Town House

The town house was completed in 1744 and originally featured an outside staircase leading to the entrance on the first floor. In 1922 the stair was removed and rebuilt inside where it gives access to the council chamber. The tower is capped with a balcony surrounding a wooden clock tower. In 1903 Mr Andrew Carnegie donated money for the extension of the town house to incorporate a Library and this was completed in 1905. It was refurbished internally in 1926 to mark the 700th anniversary of Dingwall’s First Burgh Charter. A further refurbishment of the balcony and entrance has taken place in 2010.

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Dingwall Academy

Dingwall Academy, opened in 1939 and replaced by a modern building opening on 9 June 2008.

On 9 June 2008, led by the Academy’s pipe band, the pupils re-enacted the walk in 1939 when their predecessors came from the Old Academy, in Tulloch Street, to their new school – this time from the site of the now-demolished Academy to their new school. [Above photos RCHS]

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Highland Council's Dingwall headquarters.

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Dingwall Police Station

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Dingwall » Dingwall Folk

01 4th Seaforth Highlanders

4th Seaforths embarking at Dingwall Station 1914.

Alexander M Brett

Plaque in memory of Alexander Brett located on entrance wall to St Clement's Church.

18 Bridgend Engineering, Dingwall [Photo courtesy of Mrs Jessie Sinclair]

Staff c.1940.

22 Dingwall WRVS [Photo Urquhart's Studio and DMT]

WRVS soup kitchen in the Old Academy grounds c.1950 Second left, back row, Mrs Granville Hay. Third left, front row, Mrs Lily Macrae. Others to be listed as they are identified

06 Dingwall Thistle FC 1913-14 [Photo DMT]

02 Dingwall's first Fire Brigade (date unknown). Photo: Dingwall Museum Trust

Alexander Frazer, blacksmith, identified by his grand-daughter, Miss Alexandra Fraser, Edionburgh.

Dingwall folk

Members of Dingwall Museum Trust with WW2 helmets discovered in a cupboard.

09 Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone [Photo DMT]

Dingwall's connection with Mr Gladstone is that his wife was a daughter of Provost Robertson, Bridaig House (many years the hostel of Dingwall Academy pupils from the west coast).

10 Mr and Mrs Gladstone [Photo DMT]

04 Provost Alexander Henderson [Photo DMT]

Alexander Henderson was Provost of Dingwall in 1912. Father of late Melven Henderson.

11 Dingwall YWCA or YMCA picnic

12 June 1918 at Kilmaroch.

16 Dingwall Post Office staff [Photo DMT]

GPO staff 1940s. Jean Macdonald at the back? Molly Frazer (deceased), Craig Road, at right.

17 Dingwall Post Office staff [Photo DMT]

Staff in the 1940s. Molly Frazer centre.

08 Freemason E Stenhouse [Photo DMT]

No date or details.

03 Provost Mitchell [Photo DMT]

Provost Mitchell, donor of the area which became Mitchell Hill cemetery.

21 Dingwall folk [Photo DMT]

l-r: Unknown; Danny Macbeth of "The North Star"; Peter Frazer, New Zealand Prime Minister.

20 Dingwall coach trip [Photo DMT]

Unknown group.

12 Dingwall Post Office [Photo courtesy of Mrs Anne Gordon and DMT]

Date unknown. Second right William Macdonald; third right his son Hector.

07 Dingwall Red Cross nurses 1932-33 [Photo DMT]

Back row l-r: Miss Munro, West End PO; Helma McCallum; Betty Cameron. Front row l-r: Hetty Duff; Lizzie Duff; Lily Macrae (nee Grant).

26 David Macdonald, MA

Plaque adjacent to the obelisk in Cromartie car park.

27 Mr Ian Macleod, Dingwall Museum Trust

Ian Macleod receiving the award of BEM from Lord Lieutenant Mrs Janet Bowen.

19 Dingwall coach trip

A group of Dingwallians in 1948 ready to board a Noble's (Muir of Ord) coach for their annual summer outing. ( l-r: ? Mrs Granville Hay ???? Alexander Ferguson, Mrs Christina Ogg, ?

25 Neil McKecnhie, MBE, MA, Dip.Ed. 1919-2014

Head Teacher of Dingwall Primary School.

28 PeterAngus, MBE [Photo courtesy of Alasdair Cameron]

Peter Angus receiving the award of MBE from Lord Lieutenant Mrs Janet Bowen.

29 PeterAngus, wife Jennifer and Lord Lieutenant Mrs Janet Bowen [Photo courtesy of Alasdair Cameron]

The award was announced in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2018.

15 Dingwall ploughman [Photo courtesy of The Daily Mirror

This newspaper cutting of 8 January 1935 reads: "A contestant during an interval at a ploughing match held at Humberston Farm, Dingwall, Ross-shire. Almost springlike weather prevailed."

05 Provost Robert ("Bob") Macleod

Photo source unknown.

24 Rev Alexander Glass

At Buckingham Palace 1993 for award of OBE.

23 Rev Alexander Glass, OBE, MA, Dip.Ed.

Rector of Dingwall Academy

13 Tommy Wilson [Photo courtesy of Roy Wilson]

Tommy Wilson came to Dingwall in the 1930s as a tap dance and rollerblade instructor. He gained the name of "Tommy the Rink". Later he became the projector operator at The Picture House and, when it closed, a telephone switchboard operator with the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board in their office based at the foot of Church Street.