ROSS-SHIRE JOURNAL OLD FILES: 100, 40 and 25 years ago
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100 years ago - January, 1924
Front page adverts from 100 years ago in the Ross-shire Journal revealed a wide variety of needs waiting to be satisfied.
- Wanted, girl with knowledge of housework; able to milk; for 1st February. Apply Mrs Macdonald, Bailechaul, Dingwall.
- Well-educated girl wishes situation in shop or office. Apply No 279 Journal, Dingwall.
- Wanted nice girl about 19 for light housework, if willing to learn will do; three in household; every encouragement given to nice girl.
- Tenderers wanted for the mason, carpenter, slater, plumber, plasterer and painter and glazier works in connection with offices in Ullapool for Kenneth Cameron Esq. Plans to be seen with and schedules to be obtained from D. Matheson, Architect, Dingwall,
- Offers are wanted for the repair of Newfield Road in the Parish of Logie Easter for the Logie Easter Parish Council. Specifications may be had from the undersigned with whom offers should be lodged no later than Thursday, 31st January, 1924. Robert Gibson, surveyor, County Buildings, Tain.
In other January 1924 news, we learned that Mr Clark, accountant, Commercial Bank, Cromarty had been transferred to Edinburgh. During his stay in Cromarty he was a prominent player in the local football club and supporters presented him witha set of hair brushes and a wallet of Treasury notes.
The Avoch Dramatic Society meanwhile was poised to produce two pieces in the Rosehaugh Hall. These were a one-act play called Blighty and a comedy in three parts entitled Caste. The event would be “well worth attending”.
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40 years ago - January 1984
In a piece from January 20, 1984 was pictured Ian Grant of Moorlands, Blairninich, Strathpeffer who had clocked up no less than 48 and a half years service to the North Star in Dingwall.
He had retired and was honoured by his colleagues on the staff of Highland Printers receiving a handsome carriage clock and radio cassette. His wife, Minnie, received a bouquet.
Ian was the only son of the late Police Chief Constable John Grant and the late Mrs Grant, Blairninich, and is a brother of Mrs Lily Macrae, wife of ex-provost Alex Macrae whose family had long associations with The Star.
Ian joined the paper in 1935 and with the exception of thewar years, when he served with the RAF, he has been a faithful and loyal servant of the company. His wife Minnie is the only daughter of the late Mr and Mrs W. Fraser, The Bridge, Achterneed. They have two daughters.
In a revealing piece titled North benefits from E.R.D.F, some of the local projects funded with help from the European Commission in Brussels were noted. The European Regional Development Fund supported some £42million worth of projects in Scotland that year.
Some £338m had been disbursed within Scotland since the fund was set up in 1975, the paper reported.
The infrastructure awards are mainly for road, water and drainage and industrial site servicing projects developments in ports and tourism also benefit, the paper reported. The Cromarty Firth Port Authority secured over £58,000 for deepening and improvements at Invergordon Harbour.
25 years ago - January 1999
A front page photograph in the January 22, 1999 edition showed Adam Mackenzie (17), head boy of Tain Royal Academy, who had received a place in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama - an institution which lives cheek-in-jowl with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican.
Adam of Tarlogie Farm in Tain won a scholarship and came top of his year group, placing him at tghe head of young bassoonists in Britain. He thanked David Evans, Lesley Wilson and music department staff at the school.
