Disgrace that is the Ferry of today

[IBM]

Last time I was in there it was for fish and chips

I don't get the Ferry connection. Is that not Kingussie? Or Newtonmore? Kingussie I think.

It is Kingussie.

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Kingussie just south of the Ferry using Ferry Sourced haddock 

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Is that Jock Watt ?

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From the Castle to the Ferry ?

[JockWatt]

GREIGS BUSES ?

 

[IBM]

Macbraynes and Highland, Greigs used to be grey and orange and operated from Telford Street opposite the old Caley park, I bet IHE has not got a photo of them!

[JockWatt]

Yes, IBM, you are quite correct !

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Macbraynes and Highland, Greigs used to be grey and orange and operated from Telford Street opposite the old Caley park, I bet IHE has not got a photo of them!

[IBM]

Learning all the time, I didn't know there was Greigs buses in Inverness in days gone by.  The Greigs I remember from the late 60's & early 70's  just had a few coaches.

[JockWatt]

I think that back in the 50s Greigs were the ONLY buses in the Sneck !

[+weeman]

William Greig at the age of 12 in 1918 started work as a conductor with Roderick MacLennan proprietor of the bus service between the town centre and Kessock Ferry. He was able to purchase the company in 1927 and as previously said sold out to Alexanders in 1947

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What was this then ?

[JockWatt]

Just a wild guess - a bus ! 

[IBM]

A Bristol Lodekka LD6G from 1957 the year I was born, the driver must have taken a wrong turning from Edinburgh a run that would have taken most of the day or it was on loan to Highland as they were all part of the Scottish Bus Group.

Notice the girls with the platform soles the photo would be early 70's, they are reading books nowadays they would be texting!

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Hey Jock Watt - I do the feckin jokes around here. Get back to the Ferry mun.

[JockWatt]

Oh is that right IHE, if only I could be doon there !

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Just the ticket Jock ?

[JockWatt]

That wisny there when I used to go over !

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Found yer boat Jock

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Not on your Nellie

[Charles Bannerman]

Not on your Nellie

Aye... changed days with the Kessock Bridge roundabout.

[IBM]

The Rosehaugh but where?

[ilpadrino]

Heading from Ardgour to Nether Lochaber.

[IBM]

I think it may still be the reserve ferry there although that photo was taken a number of years ago.

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And one fro on board