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Reflections from our Files: 100, 50 and 25 Years Ago


By Hector MacKenzie

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A Cromarty Primary football team lines up in 2015.
A Cromarty Primary football team lines up in 2015.

100 Years Ago

Friday, April 18, 1919

Dingwall Town Council is considering the advisability of appointing an all-round practical man to take charge of their roads, water works, and lighting, and the Finance Committee have been instructed to draw up a report on the duties such a man would have to perform, and his emoluments. Such a proposal has been before the Town Council before an only the war postponed the realisation of th4e scheme five years ago.

The Peffery, with all its mud and rubbish, has proved good fishing of late, and quite a number of clean sea trout have been landed.

An attempt is being made to revive the Fire Brigade in Dingwall, and a Committee of the Town Council are now making enquiry as to who are still members of the Brigade and where the firemen's equipment is to be found.

The Back Road at Dingwall is sadly in need of repair. This road is very convenient to a large number of Dingwall people, and its condition should be attended to.

Football has again started in Dingwall, and with the bright nights, a good number of players may be seen on the Jubilee Park.

50 Years Ago

Friday, April 18, 1969

PROVOST Robert Macleod informed members of Dingwall Town Council on Monday evening, that the County Council's Swimming Pool Committee had decided on Dingwall as the site for the swimming pool on the eastern seaboard of the County. Two sites in the burgh are being considered before a final decision is taken on one. They are at the rear of Ormidale Place and in the area of the Jubilee Park.

The Provost said the matter had still to be settled by the County Council, but Dingwall had received the 100 per cent backing of the sub-committee.

Invergordon Youth Club entered two teams in the Ross-shire Youth Club five-a-side football championships. The B team went out in the first round, but the A team went on to the quarter-finals. Teams were: A – Donald Urquhart, Roy Macgregor, David Mackenzie, David Jamieson and Robert Mackay. B – David Rowe, Kelvin Ross, Douglas MacIIdowie, Fraser Moir and John Macgregor.

Ross County directors have made a popular choice in their selection of Jack Lornie as successor to Archie Wright. Jack, who is 30, and an Aberdonian, has many years of footballing ahead of him yet, and he is

highly regarded by the Dingwall crowd.

He will have full control of selection and team matters. Jack joined County four seasons ago from Tranmere, having previously played with Banks of Dee, Leicester and Luton.

25 Years Ago

Friday, April 15, 1994

A HIGH-POWERED business delegation from the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic on an oil fact-finding tour of the North of Scotland is to visit Invergordon this Monday.

The 11-strong Stanley Chamber of Commerce delegation, representative of the various industries and businesses on the islands, will meet with members of the Cromarty Industries Group.

The visit was arranged through Cromarty Firth Port Authority harbourmaster and former Falkland islander Captain Dave Miller.

The Falkland Islands is poised on the verge of a North Sea style oil boom – potentially much larger than the North Sea – and so the delegation is trying to learn all it can from the Scottish experience.

On May 4, 1994, Mr Hugh Patience will be retiring from the post of janitor at Fortrose Academy, a post he has held since February 1961.

It was gratifying that in the Birthday Honours List of June 1993, Mr Patience's service was recognised by the award of an MBE.


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