Heritage

One of the pleasures of spending holidays with my aunt and uncle at Altas shop and Post Office in the 1950s, was playing with local children, including some of the “Boarded Out” children, often referred to as the “Glasgow orphans”.
 By Lily Byron Apparently, at one point there were at

Neil Anderson shares his memories of the places and the people he met in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s Ardgay. His family had links both to South Bonar and the Balnagown Arms Hotel. My name is William Neil Anderson and I am the last Anderson who had any connection with

In the industrial estate there once stood a building, informally known as the “Pink House’. The house –originally the Ardross Inn– was owned by the Anderson family who farmed Lower Gledfield and also owned a pier, a sawmill and a coal yard, and operated the salmon net fishing. By Katharine

Signal boxes are some of the best-loved icons of Britain’s historic railways. Dave Goulder recounts how he saved the redundant Ardgay Signal Box from “death row”. By Dave Goulder Dave, Dave, do you know – they’re going to burn the Ardgay Signal Box? They’ve smashed and burned the

Uisdean Vass shares his experiences researching into his family’s wartime stories. 
His father, Andrew “Percy” Vass was posthumously awarded the Arctic Star medal. By Uisdean Vass By way of introduction, I am an unwilling exile from the beautiful lands of the Kyle of Sutherland. My mother, Johan “Joy” Vass,