Helen Fraser — Courage in Cambodia
Helen Fraser was a Tain-born nurse whose courage under extreme circumstances earned her one of the highest international honours in nursing, the Florence Nightingale Medal.
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Portmahomack Heroes — A Family Story
In 1910, Captain Macrae survived a shipwreck; rescued after 16 hours by heroic Portmahomack fishermen.
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Court Martial 1783
These pages from our 71st Highlanders Orderly Book reveal the harsh sentences handed out at a military Court Martial held #OTD in 1783 during the American Wars of Independence. Three men are sentenced to death for Mutiny and Desertion while others receive 1000 or 500 lashes of the whip.
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Meteorite Crashes into Edderton Hill
An article from The North Star and Farmers Chronicle reporting of a meteorite exploding over Tain and crashing into Edderton Hill on the 8th of October 1903.
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Robert Donaldson Bridge Jumper
Robert Donaldson from Tain "Jumps Into the Harlem River and Accomplishes the Greatest Jump on Record."
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Childhood Memories of Inver
Interview between Nellie Haddow nee Skinner and Marie Macleod, October 1986.
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Jock Hairy
The story of Jock Hairy a Wildfowler who lived on a boat-house in Edderton by Alex "Dow" Macleod of the Grove, Tain.
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