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PICTURE DETECTIVE: Do you recognise these latest photos from the J Thomson Collection at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery or know what was happening?


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

ARE you in our latest mystery photos, or do you know anyone who is? Do you remember either of the events?

If so, you can become a Picture Detective in the Inverness Courier’s 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 aspects of life in the Highlands from the 1800s right up to the present day, and the site is bilingual with information presented in both English and Gaelic.

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

But it holds hundreds of photos which have left its researchers puzzled as there are no names or captions attached to them.

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

  • If you can help identify any of these people or events, email us at newsdesk@hnmedia.co.uk, or write to Picture Detective, Editorial Department, The Inverness Courier, Suite 3.04, Moray House, 16-18 Bank Street, Inverness, IV1 1QY.

SOLVED!

Reader Eric Coull solved one of the most recent Picture Detective images, which appears to be a Inverness Golf Club winners’presentation.
Reader Eric Coull solved one of the most recent Picture Detective images, which appears to be a Inverness Golf Club winners’presentation.

READER Eric Coull contacted the Inverness Courier to shed some light on one of the most recent Picture Detective images.

“The picture looks like the Inverness Golf Club winners’ presentation,” he said. “The gentleman far right at the back is William (Bill) Elliot.”

Does anyone else know any further names or details regarding this image?


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