Looking Back: Reflections from Ross-shire Journal's old files 100, 50 and 25 years ago
100 Years Ago
Friday, September 5, 1919
MR Robert Emslie, Kinnahaird, showed for exhibition at the Contin Flower Show a spray of the climbing rose Dorothy Perkins, bearing two blooms, one white, which is the normal colour, and one pink which is unique.
This interesting “sport” was true to variety , and fully developed. The exhibit, which will interest “rosarians,” was much admired. Mr Emslie also showed, for exhibition, potatoes grown from tubers taken home as a
souvenir by soldiers from the Rhine. The variety is a second early, round in shape, of a good usable size, and of fine quality. The results ought to be interesting to potato growers.
The distribution of memorial medals and tumblers, suitably inscribed, which were promised to all children of the parish of Tain, of school age, but could not be procured at the time, were duly delivered on
Saturday.
There was a large attendance – over 450 children. The Provost presided and addressed the youthful audience, and was assisted in the distribution by Bailie Mackay and others of the Town Council. Many of the children were going about thereafter proudly wearing their medals.
It has now been definitely decided that the freedom of the burgh of Dingwall will be conferred upon Sir Hector Munro of Foulis, Bart., and the Rt. Hon. Robert Munro, Secretary of State of Scotland, on Tuesday, 23rd September.
50 Years Ago
Friday, September 5, 1969
WITH the construction of a £37 million aluminium smelter and a £60 million petro-chemical complex in the Invergordon area the Inverness Savings Bank is to open a branch in the near future.
This was revealed at Dingwall on Tuesday, by Mr J. N. Gray, Inverness, chairman of the Inverness Savings Bank, when he presided over a meeting to re-establish the local Dingwall Committee of the Bank. Mr Gray stated it was hoped to open a branch in Invergordon very shortly to meet the demands of the influx of workers to the area.
Mr David A. Easson, son of Mr and Mrs W. A. Esson, 6 Bermuda Road, Invergordon, will be flying from London to Uganda with 15 other students from British universities on 15th September. David, who graduated M.A. with upper second class honours in Mathematics from Edinburgh University in July this year, will continue his studies for a year at Makerere University College, Kampala, until June 1970, and will then teach for two years in a secondary school in Uganda under a scheme sponsored by the Ministry for Overseas Development.
25 Years Ago
Friday, September 2, 1994
THIS year, for the first time in a long time, the popular Highland Games at Invergordon were held in the Academy Playing Fields (formerly the Naval Recreation Grounds), on Saturday last. But for one particularly
heavy shower of rain in late afternoon, the proceedings were sunshine all the way as threatening cloud passed over Fyrish and made its way northwards, skirting Invergordon.
On a fact-finding mission to Invergordon is John Clark (45), harbour master at Port Stanley on the Falklands Islands. Mr Clark has been staying with his Easter Ross counterpart, Captain Dave Miller, harbour master at Invergordon. Captain Miller paid a return visit to his native Falkland Islands last year where he met Mr Clark.
Contin finished top of the world on Saturday, at Contin, when they defeated Maryburgh by three goals to one in the Larchfield Cup final, in a contest which was full of interest. Mike Manson se them on their way, and Neil Mackay put them further ahead early in the second half. Brian Davidson reduced the leeway, but Greig Mackenzie wrapped it up in the closing minutes.
