Reflections from Ross-shire: Runaway horse sparks smart response in Dingwall
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100 Years Ago
Friday, April 16, 1920
A RUNAWAY farm horse was smartly and pluckily stopped in Tulloch Street, Dingwall, on Monday morning by Mr T. Maclean, draper. The animal, one of a pair harnessed to carts and in charge of one man, had bolted near the station and came careering at a fast pace along High Street.
Taking the corner of Tulloch Street too quickly it crashed slantingly against Mr Frew's shop wall, just missing the window. The animal rose at once and continued its course down Tulloch Street. Mr Maclean was at his shop door and made a spring for the animal, luckily catching the reins and hanging on till he brought it up.
Shopkeepers in Dingwall are remarking on diminishing sales compared with results of a year ago. High productive costs have made everything dearer and even if wages are still on a high level and the average spending power considerable a disinclination to purchase anything but real necessities is becoming more and more marked. Drapers, clothiers, boot makers, fancy goods dealers, and other merchants are buying stock in far less quantity than formerly a circumstance noted more or less all over the country. Production under such conditions will rapidly overtake demand, with consequences which need not be stated.
50 Years Ago
Friday, April 17, 1970
FACED with a need to increase the number of policemen for duty in Ullapool and Lochinver, the Chief Constable, Mr Kenneth Ross, offered Ross and Sutherland Joint Police Committee a choice at their meeting on Thursday in Dingwall. They could apply to the Scottish Home and Health Department for the appointment of two additional constables or they could employ three Traffic Wardens in Dingwall, and relieve two policemen for duty in the west.
The committee agreed not to press for the addition of two constables meantime, and narrowly defeated, by seven votes to six, a motion to appoint three wardens.
There is the possibility of only one poll on the mainland of the County in this year's Town Council elections, and that is at Fortrose. At Invergordon there are only two candidates forward for three seats.
25 Years Ago
Friday, April 14, 1995
THERE were a number of shock results in Thursday's Highland Council election, which produced a sprinkling of rising political stars and proclaimed the beginning of the end for several well known personalities in Ross-shire.
The result of the night was the three cornered fight for Tain won in landslide fashion for Councillor Jamie Stone.
He could barely hide the shock admitting only minutes after the result to have expected to win by a tiny majority.
But in the end his 1079 votes were still more than defeated opponents Alasdair Rhind and Derek Louden could muster between them.
Ross and Cromarty District Council is to spend £150,000 in the next financial year on an automated composting recycling centre at Invergordon, the first of its type in the UK.
The total cost of the project, which will have a satellite recycling point in Dingwall, will be double that amount, with European regional development money matching council spending pound for pound.
