Strathpeffer Work
Attribution: unknown (The ruin of Free Church in Jamestown)
Ardival Harps
Ardival Harps is a small business situated near the Victorian village of Strathpeffer. The firm specialise in Historical Scottish Harps and modern Clarsachs made from local timber, cut and kiln dried by a local hardwood sawmill. Proper seasoning ensures that the harps may be used in modern centrally-heated conditions. The woods used are beech, birch, lime and sycamore.
Ardival Harps also run holiday courses for beginners and players. Structured four-day courses offer an opportunity to combine a holiday in the Highlands with a chance to hear and learn different types of harps.
Strathpeffer Sawmill
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Strathpeffer as a spa village
Strathpeffer as a spa village, with pumproom in the foreground, the Square on the right and the spire of the Free Church of Scotland in the background. [Photo RCHS]
Strathpeffer station building
Strathpeffer station building, restored from a dilapidated state in 1986.
"The Strathie" at Strathpeffer Station
"The Strathie" at Strathpeffer Station. [Photo courtesy of The Highland Railway Society]
Strathpeffer Station - coal yard
The station when used as a coal yard c.1950s. [Photo courtesy of the Highland Museum of Childhood.]
Later version of the "Strathie" taken at Dingwall Station
Photo [courtesy of the F W Urquhart collection] of a later version of the "Strathie" taken at Dingwall Station. In 1897 the Highland Railway Company ran five trains a day on the branch line from Dingwall to Strathpeffer [see Strathpeffer/Environment/The Peffery Way]. The first train, at 7.40 am, was a mixed/mail passenger train. The journey took ten minutes. As the train has been decorated, could this be to celebrate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in 1897?
Strathie196ac.jpg
"The Strathie" at Strathpeffer Station but from photograph acquired by RCHS, now gifted to The Pump Room.
Spa buildings
Another photograph of the Spa buildings (source unknown). Is this before the Highland Hotel was built?
Strathpeffer Station in 1937
Newspaper photograph (source unknown) showing Station in 1937 with goods train.
