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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 5h
Longhorn cattle at Kinnahaird Farm, near #Contin, c1930 [photo: J. G. Russell; courtesy of Lorna Dey]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 11h
Ascending Ben Nevis with Lochan Meall an t-Suidhe on the right, c1898 [photo: Valentine & Sons; source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/2/5]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 29/09/2026
Alexander Cameron was born in Inverness in 1890 and worked as a clerk with the Highland Railway. After emigrating to Canada, he worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway. In #WWI he joined the 24th Battalion Canadian Infantry. He was killed in action on 29 September 1916 [photo: Sandy Cameron]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 29/09/2026
On 29 September 1952, on the first anniversary of his death, around 300 people attended a service at Lenie, on the west shore of Loch Ness, to unveil a cairn built and dedicated to John Cobb. [photo: Jimmy Nairn; source: Highland Photographic Archive]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 28/09/2026
Unveiling the memorial to the men of the 51st (Highland) Division at the village of Beaumont Hamel, in northern France, on 28 September 1924. On 13 November 1916, the Division outflanked Beaumont-Hamel on both sides and forced the German garrison there to surrender. [photo: Grantown Museum]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 27/09/2026
#Dingwall Station, September 1929, with the morning train train to Strathpeffer about to depart [photo from the Highland Railway Society's collections]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 27/09/2026
The slipway at #Kylerhea, looking across to #Skye, c1970s. This has been a ferry crossing for centuries, with the first car ferry introduced in the 1930s. A service still runs between April and October [source: HLH Libraries]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 26/09/2026
Sandy Cameron pictured beside a Humber Super Snipe outside John Robertson's garage in Shore Street, #Inverness, 1950s [photo courtesy of Sandy Cameron]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 26/09/2026
Highland Omnibuses vehicles at #Tarbert, #Harris in September 1971 [photo: John Sinclair]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 25/09/2026
Students at #Balmacara Agricultural School posing for a group photograph, 1960s [source: Beatrice Grigor]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 25/09/2026
Oileanaich aig Sgoil Àiteachais Bhaile Mac Ara còmhla airson dealbh camara buidhne, 1960an [neach-fiosrachaidh: Beatrice Grigor]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 24/09/2026
#Kingussie High Street, September 1973 [photo: Ken MacKenzie / Highland Council]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 23/09/2026
Packing barrels with salted herring at #Scrabster, c1940s [source: #Caithness Horizons Collection; North Coast Visitor Centre]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 23/09/2026
A bench at Lochiel Gardens, #Inverness where six houses for disabled ex-servicemen and merchant seamen were declared open n 18t September 1952. More information here - www.ambaile.org.uk/asset/21191 [source: David Whyte Studio Collection; Highland Photographic Archive]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 22/09/2026
Three pipers playing at Kyle of Lochalsh Station on 22 September 1973 when two special excursion trains, each comprising 11 coaches, were in the station at the same time. One was organised by the Wirral Rail Circle, the other by the West of England Division of BR [photo: Highland Railway Society]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 22/09/2026
John Sinclair, Provost of Thurso, speaking at the opening of the town's new Fire Station on this day in 1954. The station was built by a local company, Messrs J. and G. B. Mackay of Bettyhill [source: #Caithness Horizons Collection, North Coast Visitor Centre]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 21/09/2026
The tower of the Old High Church, #Inverness, seen from Bank Street in September 1963 [photo: Edward Meldrum]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 21/09/2026
The first Mobile Physiotherapy Unit in the Highlands and Islands was inaugurated in 1950. Operated by the Inverness-shire Branch of the Red Cross, it was based in #Skye and the driver / physiotherapist when the service was launched was Miss Margaret Singman [photo courtesy of M.E. Nisbet]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 20/09/2026
The 1952 International Sheep Dog Society Trials were held at the Longman, #Inverness between 18th and 20th September. The winner of the Supreme Singles Championship was David W. Daniel of Henglyn Farm, Ystradgynlais and his dog, Chip.  [David Whyte Studios Collection, Highland Photographic Archive]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 20/09/2026
Washing Picnic Dishes at Loch Garten, 1904 [source: #Grantown Museum]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 20/09/2026
A' Glanadh shoithichean aig Loch a' Ghartain, 1904 [neach-fiosrachaidh: Taigh-tasgaidh Bhaile nan Granndach]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 19/09/2026
The intake of student nurses at Eden Court Nurses Training School, #Inverness in September 1967. Names here - www.ambaile.org.uk/asset/29432 [source: Nurses League of Inverness Hospitals]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 19/09/2026
A Highland Omnibuses' bus beside the Cambrai War Memorial, #Dingwall before leaving on the Saturday-only service to Brahan village in September 1962. Dingwall Railway Station can be seen in the background [photo: John Sinclair]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 18/09/2026
The War Memorial at #Grantown-on-Spey was designed by Alexander Marshall MacKenzie and unveiled in a ceremony on 18th September 1921. #WWI [photo: A. Ledingham; from the collections at #Grantown Museum]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 17/09/2026
Fort William High Street, late-19th century [photo: George Washington Wilson; source: D1751/2/2/5]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 17/09/2026
The doors of the ICT Community Hub are opening for a morning of football, memories, stories and good company, all while raising funds for Macmillan Cancer Support: 📅 Friday 25th September ⏰ 9am–1pm 📍 ICT Community Hub - Culduthel Road, Inverness, IV2 6AD (beside Inverness Royal Academy)
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 17/09/2026
Agnes Wallace, from #Ullapool. Agnes was a nurse accompanying children who were being evacuated to Canada shortly after the outbreak of #WWII when the ship they were on, the SS Benares, was torpedoed and sank on 17 September 1940 with the loss of 258 lives, including Angnes [photo: Ullapool Museum]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 16/09/2026
A mail train passing through Boat of Garten Station in September 1949 [photo from the Highland Railway Society's collections]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 16/09/2026
#WEA Highland, #Inverness
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 16/09/2026
Photos taken at the Northern Meeting Games held at the Northern Meeting Park, #Inverness, on 16th and 17th September 1920 showing the tug-of-war, which was won by the 1st Battalion Seaforths, and measuring a close finish in the stone put which was by Charles Maclean of Fort William
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 15/09/2026
The view over Tràigh Uige from Baile Na Cille, on the west coast of #Lewis, c1980s [source: HLH Libraries]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 14/09/2026
A postcard view of a steamer at the pier at Port Askaig, #Islay looking east across the Sound of Islay to #Jura, undated [source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/1/19]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 13/09/2026
The North Kessock Hotel, 1930s [source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/1/04]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 12/09/2026
A postcard view of the Sound of #Sleat and #Knoydart from Tormore, Isle of #Skye, c1970s [source: HLH Libraries]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 12/09/2026
A MacBrayne's tour bus at Fort William Bust Station, September 1963 [photo: John Sinclair]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 11/09/2026
Firefighters tackling the blaze which destroyed part of the #Gairloch Hotel on this day in 1989. All 100 or so guests were evacuated with some knotting bed sheets together to climb down from the upper floors. Five people were taken to hospital [photo: Colin Robertson; source: Gairloch Museum]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 10/09/2026
Ness Bank, #Inverness, circa mid-1960s and a fine looking Austin (an A35, I think) parked by the kerb [photo: Raymond Meiklejohn]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 10/09/2026
#Oban, shortly after the railway station and new pier were opened in 1880 [photo: J. Valentine; source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/2/6]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 09/09/2026
Trains in both platforms at Blair Atholl, September 1954. The station at Blair Atholl first opened on this day in 1863 as part of the Pitlochry - Aviemore section of the Highland Main Line. [photo from the Highland Railway Society's collections]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 09/09/2026
Some pages from the booklet for the opening ceremony of the new road between #Shieldaig and #Torridon, known as the Balgy Gap, along the southern shore of Upper Loch Torridon on 9 September 1963. You can view the whole booklet here - www.ambaile.org.uk/asset/49572
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 08/09/2026
John and Peigi Mackenzie on their croft at 6 Redpoint in September 1938 [photo from the collections at #Gairloch Museum]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 08/09/2026
The Pavilion, #Strathpeffer in September 1918 when it was part of U.S. Naval Base Hospital No. 2. #WWI [image courtesy of Naval History and Heritage Command]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 07/09/2026
The King's House Hotel, close to the western end of Rannoch Moor and the eastern end of Glen Coe, c1960s. It is thought to be one of Scotland's oldest licensed inns [photo: J.M. Strachan]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 06/09/2026
The Ferry Boat Inn and Shore Street, #Ullapool, September 1983 [photo: Ken MacKenzie / Highland Council]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 06/09/2026
The Kessock Bridge under construction in September 1981, showing the piers of the main span [photo: Andrew Fraser]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 05/09/2026
The view eastwards from the footbridge at #Achnasheen Station, September 1958 [photo from the Highland Railway Society's collections]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 05/09/2026
Buses parked outside the depot at Lower Barvas, #Lewis in September 1967. I don't know who the children are [photo: John Sinclair]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 04/09/2026
The #Arisaig Hotel, c1896 [photo: J. Valentine; source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/2/4]
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 04/09/2026
Inverness Thistle's half-back line prior to a game away to #Forres Mechanics on this day in 1937 which the Jags won 5-2. L-R: W. Macdonald (right half), George Ballantyne (centre half), & J. Robertson (left half) [photo: B.Wilken; courtesy of S. Mackenzie] #InvernessFootballMemories
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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 04/09/2026
The ceremony to mark the laying of the foundation stone of the new Public Hall in Kyle of Lochalsh on this day in 1931 (the date on the postcard is incorrect) [source: Highland Folk Museum]
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