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Tweeting about the history and culture of the Scottish Highlands and Islands / A’ tweeteadh mu eachdraidh is cultar Gàidhealtachd na h-Alba is nan Eilean

Inverness, Scotland
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Am Baile - Highland History & Culture
2 years
The latest development in the #InvernessFootballMemories project is the publication of a 136-page book which charts the history of football in #Inverness from the 1880s to the present day. Copies can be ordered from the Highland Achive Service shop - https://t.co/2A23ZAqWiB
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The junction of the A832 and A835 at Gorstan, just north of #Garve, 1970 [photo: Ken MacKenzie / @HighlandCouncil]
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@Nuradin
Nuradin Dirie
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Honoured to speak at the Ohio Statehouse on how state leadership and diaspora voices can shape global partnerships. Grateful to @ismailforohio for championing this vital dialogue.
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HR 95, one of the Highland Railway Company’s Strath Class of 4-4-0 locomotives, wit hdriver and fireman at #Thurso in October 1923. Named ‘Strathcarron’, it was built by Neilson & Co in Glasgow in 1892 and was withdrawn in 1930 [photo from the Highland Railway Society’s
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The pier at #Bowmore, #Islay [source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/1/19]
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A service bus waiting by the slipway at South Kessock, #Inverness to collect passengers from the approaching ferry, late-1960s/early-1970s [photo: John Sinclair]
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@FamilyProjectTX
Texas Family Project
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Children are being sexualized, families are being destroyed, and the government doesn't want to do anything about it. Stand with us as we fight for families!
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The rear of a house near the junction of View Place and Castle Street, #Inverness in October 1965. It was demolished, along with Castle Gate Lodge, in 1967 as part of a road widening and realignment programme. [photo: Edward Meldrum]
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Today's #InvernessFootballMemories is really a #Nairn Football Memories as former @NairnCounty goalkeeper, Richard Konczak, recalls the dramatic day in 1976 when the club won the Highland League title for the first (and so far only) time in its history: https://t.co/6cAdZ3UNgq
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Thank you to everyone who got in touch regarding #mysteryphoto no.359. It was identified as being taken at Strathcarron Station
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Today's #mysteryphoto (no. 360) has a working title of "Sunset on the west coast of Scotland". If you can identify the exact location, please get in touch. Thank you!
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@AbrahamWatkins
Abraham Watkins
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Abraham Watkins Law Firm is incredibly honored to have represented a remarkable family who suffered unimaginable tragedy — the loss of a loved one and life-altering injuries. This $60 million mid-trial settlement brings justice and closure to a family that placed their trust in
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@HLHArchives
Highland Archives
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Loch Eil & Fort William from Corpach by George Washington Wilson, Paddle Steamer at Corpach Pier c.1900. (L/D208/4/1) #lochaber #archives #History #photography #steampaddler
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Am Baile - Highland History & Culture
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Members of the McPhee family of Highland Travellers posing for a photograph, c1930. I don't know the precise location but it's somewhere in Ross-shire [photo: J.G. Russell; source: HLH Archives, D1919/005]
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Osgood Mackenzie (1842–1922), the founder of the renowned #Inverewe Gardens on the shores of Loch Ewe. Beginning in the 1860s, he transformed the windswept peninsula and through decades of careful planting, created one of Scotland’s most celebrated gardens [photos: #Gairloch
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Cars parked outside the Station Hotel, #Wick (probably in August 1913 when Billy Wells and Pat O'Keeffe fought each other for the British Heavyweight Boxing Championship) [source: HLH Archive, D1751/2/1/02]
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Official opening of Ward 17, the Children's Ward, at the old Raigmore Hospital, #Inverness on this day in 1955 [source: Nurses League of Inverness Hospitals]
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Fosgladh oifigeil Uàrd 17, Uàrd na Cloinne, aig seann ospatal an Rathaig Mhòir, Inbhir Nis air an là seo ann an 1955 [neach-fiosrachaidh: Nurses League of Inverness Hospitals]
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Peat stacks at Stein, Isle of Skye, circa late 1800s [photo Charles S. Bayne; source: MacDonald of #Waternish Collection, #Skye & Lochalsh Archive Centre]
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#Achnasheen Station, 1958 [photo from the Highland Railway Society's collections]
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Robert Cameron's Emporium on the Canal Side at Fort Augustus. He advertised the business as 'Cabinetmaker and Walking Stick Manufacturer' but clearly sold many other things. [source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/1/02]
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#Dalwhinnie Garage, 1976 [photo: Ken MacKenzie / @HighlandCouncil] The next in the #mysteryphoto series will appear later in the week
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#Elgin, on this day in 1901, and members of the 3rd (Morayshire) Volunteer Battalion #Seaforth Highlanders receiving medals for service during the Second Boer War. Almost 200 men from the battalion volunteered to go to South Africa [photo from the collections at #Grantown
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The South African Football Team at #Inverness on this day in 1953 during a tour of the UK and Ireland. They had played a North of Scotland FA side at Telford Street in front of a crowd of 6,000, losing 3-1. Their next game was against Dundee FC #InvernessFootballMemories
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