Inverness Remembered: A welcome return for a familiar festive favourite
Register for free to read more of the latest local news. It's easy and will only take a moment.
ADVERTISING FEATURE
There could be much missing from the familiar pattern of Christmas in this year of pandemic but, rest assured and hang up that stocking, as there will be another edition of Inverness Remembered.
Volume XVI in this popular series is about to hit the shops.
Thanks to the generosity of many Courier readers, once again we have been able to compile a wide and varied selection of photographs of local scenes, events and groups marking moments in the life of the city and its environs.
There are some familiar themes such as school classes, sports teams, the construction of the Kessock Bridge, and how streets used to look not that long ago.
The pandemic has had an impact on the production of this year’s volume.
With libraries and archives closed for months, research for captions has been challenging and in a few cases no doubt, despite our best efforts, we may have presented the wrong information.
We hope there are not too many instances of this kind – and of course there will be the opportunity to published corrections in next year’s volume – work on which has already started!
Sometimes damaged photos or cuttings from newspapers come our way.
We use the photos if we judge them to be of particular interest but newspaper cuttings can seldom be reproduced for both copyright and technical reasons – the method of printing in old papers does not make for clear scanning.
Among the highlights in this year’s volume we could mention the set of photos recording Charles Leakey’s numerous city bookshops, the demolition of the former Ness suspension bridge and its replacement with Willie Logan’s new construction, and the photos of the 51st Highland Division pipe band displaying indomitable spirit while prisoners of war. Plus, of course, the innumerable worthies that appear over the years.
Inverness has changed greatly even in the last 30 years.
It is remarkable how soon after the demolition of a building or a change in the layout of a road or a roundabout the former appearance of the scene becomes forgotten.
And that goes for people as well, when adults are reminded how they once looked at the school.
Many memories – happy ones, we hope – will be refreshed in the pages of this year’s Inverness Remembered.
n Inverness Remembered XVI is available from WH Smith, Waterstones and some local newsagents, priced £14.99.
