Click here to sign up to our free newsletters! Shinty is not a sport that existed where I grew up in West Aberdeenshire. Tyler Cain of Tomnacross with the Anne Cameron Quaich for Player of the Match. Tomnacross v Rockfield in the Mackay Cup Final – played at The Bught, Inverness. My only awareness … [Read more…]
Click here to sign up to our free newsletters! Waitress service at the Crown Bar after prohibition in Wick was repealed on May 28, 1947. Breakfast on the train From the Groat of June 8, 1923 Passengers travelling north from Inverness on the first two trains of the day – 6.30am and 10.30am – … [Read more…]
Click here to sign up to our free newsletters! Flashback to 15 years ago when members of Wick RBLS Pipe Band were Beating Retreat at Edinburgh Castle’s Esplanade. From cabin boy to commodore From the Groat of May 25, 1923 The death had occurred in Dorset of Captain Horatio McKay, a native of Thurso … [Read more…]
Click here to sign up to our free newsletters! The Real Mackay by Dan Mackay Dan Mackay wonders what hope for the rest of us if the provost of Wick can only get the council to act after a year. Main picture: DGS It was certainly a “sign of the times” for the residents … [Read more…]
Click here to sign up to our free newsletters! Celebrating an anniversary previously, the Special Needs Action Project (SNAP) had more reason to be happy this week. Picture: Callum Mackay All these and more got readers talking this week. Praise continues for account of addiction Courier reporter Rachel Smart has had a good response … [Read more…]