Highland Picture Detective: Can you identify our latest mystery photographs?

Published: 16:00, 03 May 2025

Are you in our latest mystery photos from around the Highlands, or do you happen to know anyone who is?

If so, you can become a Picture Detective in this regular feature, which is run in conjunction with High Life Highland.

Am Baile (www.ambaile.org.uk) is the leading Highland history and culture website. On the site there are photos, short films and audio recordings, as well as maps, rare books and archive documents.

Its material covers all manner of aspects of Highland life from the 1800s right up until the present day, and the site is bilingual too, with information presented in both English and Gaelic. But it also holds hundreds of photos which have left its researchers puzzled as there are no captions or other details.

Today’s snapshots belong to the J Thomson Collection, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, High Life Highland, which has been digitised and permission has been given for us to publish it.

If you know the people in any of these pictures, email newsdesk@hnmedia.co.uk or write to The Inverness Courier, Suite 3rd Floor, 1-5 Church Street, Inverness, IV1 1DY.

Reader Dorothy Morrison believes she recognised one of the boys in our most recent edition of Picture Detective. She said: "[In the] picture of the young boys, on the right with watch on wrist looks like Gordon Munro. Gordon still lives in Inverness."

Reader Nicol Manson was able to shed light on the identities of several people in this picture. Nicol said: "Back left to right: first left Christine Moffat; third left Sybil Campbell beside husband Dodo; fourth from right John Ligertwood; second right Dave Moffat. Third right person was called Noel. Front row left to right: George MacLean and Rod Michie. The Campbells at one time for many years ran the barbers and gift shop in the Victorian Market. John Ligertwood was the manager at the Clydesdale Bank and messrs Maclean and Michie were proprietors of the Muirtown Motel.

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