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    Old Golf Courses

    in Olde Inverness

    Posted · Edited by Tichy_Blacks_Back

    Longman Municipal Golf Club - it was located on a section of land that jutted into the firth near to the current Caledonian Thistle stadium (source: Old Inverness in Pictures; 1978)

    Longman Golf Course opening - circa 1920.jpg

    Inverness Royal Academy of Olde

    in Olde Inverness

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    On 01/05/2016 at 3:27 PM, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

    Royal Academy 1792

    image.jpg

    Just finished reading an old Inverness book by Evan Macleod Barron and within it there is a chapter called 'An Early Nineteenth Century Episode' which is all about an infamous event associated with the Inverness Royal Academy that played out between December 1819 and the Summer of 1820. It revolves around two feuding groups who championed different candidates for the new masters position and reads as if it is straight out of a novel. The main protagonist is an outspoken landowner/businessman who had been a long standing Director of the Academy from 1792 when Inverness Grammar School transformed into an Academy. He is said to have had an exalted idea of his own importance and an extraordinary fondness for posing (I assume in 1819 that meant the same thing as today).

    Anyway I digress - there was a society set up by this gentleman in 1815 called the 'Society of True Highlanders' (seemingly not to be confused with the 'Club of True Highlanders') in which a number of those associated with the Academy were said to be members.

    Was this the Academy's 'Dead Poet's Society'?  

    Old Golf Courses

    in Olde Inverness

    Posted · Edited by Tichy_Blacks_Back

    I came across this information on a golf course that was situated at Ness Castle while looking for some information on an old golf course in Ireland. Below is the layout for what was a 9 hole course that was laid out circa 1890 at Ness Castle by a Mr James Patterson (who apparently was a local Civil Engineer) for Fontaine Walker (1833-1892) who was a wealthy businessman of the time and also the owner of Ness Castle and at one time also the Foyers estate.

    The course was located on what is now the site of the new Barratt's Ness Castle housing development on Dores Road. I always wondered about the purpose of the large cleared area at the top of the hill between Ness Castle and the Dores Road from my younger days but never knew that it was at one time a golf course.

    If you look at the the recent Google Earth map you can still see three of the copses that are referenced in the 1929 Courier extract and shown on the map below. I wonder if they have found any old golf balls while they have been clearing the site as a few must have gone astray.

    Ness Castle Golf Club, Inverness. Course layout.

    Ness Castle 4.jpg

    Interestingly the web-site references four old Inverness golf course locations but does not mention Craig Dunain golf course.

    Does anybody have any other information (or photos even) of the Ness Castle course or any other of the old Inverness courses that have now been lost to development?

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    Ness Castle 2.jpg

    Looking south towards Dores

    Ness Castle 5.jpg

    Looking north towards Inverness

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    Partick Th -V- Inverness CT

    in Caley Thistle

    Posted

    Always nice when they say "they should have had 6 or 7" and we have actually scored three for once. Sounds like a free flowing team who no longer have the threat of relegation hanging over them and are playing like they are capable of.

    David Raven

    in Caley Thistle

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    50 minutes ago, RiG said:

    Hughes is quoted in the P & J as saying that Doran is his main priority once he has sorted out a new deal for Tansey.

    I've no idea what kind of wage Raven might be on but I can't imagine it would be one of the highest at the club. I'm pretty flummoxed by this bizarre episode. If money is tight and we can only afford to retain a certain number of defenders whilst strengthening the forward line (fair enough on the surface actually) surely you keep your best defenders which to pretty much everyone on here would be Tremarco, Warren, Meekings and Raven but Hughes seems to prefer playing Devine at CB and Meekings at RB thus squeezing out Raven. Very odd.

    Of course there is the real possibility that the whole wages thing is just a cover story for the fact that Hughes just doesn't like the guy.

    As others have said there are slight similarities to Tokely and Munro leaving but I would say that they were a bit more past it than Raven but for the most part Butcher was better at sourcing replacements. With Hughes I just don't trust his ability to source out adequate replacements for when we lost players. As Renegade (I think) mentioned, given the difficulty we have in getting players to come up here we find ourselves with a dependable, competent right back, who wants to stay, is part of our best defensive line up and is unlikely to command a high wage yet we are looking likely to release him. Mind boggling.

    Totally agree - some of the comments in the press which are assigned to Hughes are mind boggling. Of course they could be taken out of context but as a player or board member I would be pretty disappointed to be reading that type of thing in the press this morning. If this is Raven's last season with us there are better ways of going about it. Potentially looks like we will be back to another pre-season of scrambling around for players to make up the numbers in our squad. Maybe we are just seeing another step in the great unravelling.  

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    Old Highland League days....

    in Olde Inverness

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    Report for the Celtic pre-season friendly in 1973 at Kingsmills Park in the days of multiple highland league pre-season games against league teams touring the north.

    • Thistle 2 Celtic 6
    • Fraserburgh 1 Motherwell 4
    • Buckie Thistle 0 Airdrie 7
    • Caley 1 Clydebank 3
    • Ross County 0 Queens Park 4

    There are a few teams there that would love those types of scores these days.... :whistle:

    Match trivia from CelticWiki:

     

    • Start of the new season with two games in the highlands as part of the pre-season warm up. The players had reported back for duty on the 14th July.
    • In the closed season Dixie Deans had left for Luton Town in a £20,000 deal. Harry Hood had gone to play in the USA over the summer and Bertie Auld was hoping to sign him to Partick Thistle on his return.
    • Sean Fallon had moved from Assistant Manager to Chief Scout and Youth Development. Davie McParland had arrived as Assistant Manager to Jock Stein.
    • Stevie Murray had seen another specialist about his tough injury and was reconsidering his position. George Connelly had gone out on a year long loan to Falkirk to attempt to resurrect his career.
    • Atholl Henderson had been signed on a free when released by St Johnstone.
    • The 16 man squad had headed north on the Thursday for the two games and trained in Inverness.
    • Falkirk, having taken George Connelly on loan for the season were looking to buy Andy Ritchie.
    • Latchford saved penalty in 32 minutes but referee ordered retake and Black scored from the retake.
    • Bobby Lennox was injured during the game and subbed.
    • Young George McCluskey pleases Jock Stein with a hat trick and Johnny Doyle scores his first Celtic goals. Doyle and George McCluskey play as the front line strikers. Celtic went 2-0 up in the first half but Thistle pulled one back from the spot after an Edvaldsson infringement.
    • The part-time Highlanders tired in the second half and Celtic ran in another 4 goals.
    • Stein is now well and back at the helm and was happy Doyle did not react after heavy tackling from the Thistle players during the game.
    • Scorers - Thistle: Black 2 (pen 32, 87) - Celtic: Doyle 2 (17, 86), G McCluskey 3 (27, 61, pen 63), MacDonald (67)
    • Celtic team: Latchford, McGrain, Lynch, Gavin, Aitken (MacDonald), Edvaldsson, Dalglish (Ritchie), Doyle, G McCluskey, Burns, Lennox (Wilson)

     

    Thistle 2 Celtic 6 - 1976_07_31.jpeg

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    Inverness CT -V- Motherwell

    in Caley Thistle

    Posted

    Today was only the second game I have been able to attend this season. Watching ICT though can be summed up in one word 'Frustrating'. Tactically we were set up ok but we don't seem to have the players to play the system effectively enough. The passing probing game is all very well but we have a tendency to over play it resulting in a slowing down of the game to a snails pace and we then become so pedestrian that errors are made. The amount of times we gained possession and then allowed Motherwell to recover their shape by dithering on the ball with inefective passing sideways and backwards which then resulted in an attempt at a pass that could have been made far earlier. In order to play this style of football effectively we need to be more direct with it and include more of an injection of pace. On the two or three times we did so we caused Motherwell all sorts of problems but we just didn't do it on enough occasions and more than not we didn't look as if we had the confidence to do it looking instead for ever shorter passes leading to nowhere.

    Motherwell though were a poor side today and we should have been able to put them away with a goal or two to spare. The last minute goal was a result of a desire to get 3 pts but even then it should have been defended against but we had lost our shape and allowed a run down the middle of the park for a one on one with Williams. Well done though to them for sticking it out and then hitting us on the counter attack in the dying moments of the game - the sort of thing we haven't managed to do this season.

    Might be able to make the Hearts game on Tuesday but not looking forward to seeing more of that and especially against a better side than Motherwell.

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