weeman

It's west of Inverness

Is that not the shop,in the picture that Mario had on the other side of the road

Smoo cave

I'd be a bit worried about the tin of penetrating oil

That very possibly does help and may well narrow my search. "Wedderspoon" is a pretty unusual name but one slight problem is that on a second website showing the medal, the spelling is "Wetherspoon". Now I have seen the surnames Weatherspoon and Wotherspoon in Inverness (although neither family originally local) but not either of these other two variations until now. I have got a hunch that weeman has got the right person since, apart from the unusual name and the correct time, a County Sanitary Inspector living in a house with its own name in Ballifeary Road is just the kind of person who might have sent his daughter to the Royal Academy at that time. There are no Weatherspoons listed and just the one Wedderspoon in 1900. Good to see that there was someone else from the wrong side of the river there

Glad I am not old enough to have had that experience! It was bad enough with no electricity and having to use a torch when you had to go in the night. Safer than matches

That's interesting since I've checked Robert Preece's official history of the school just to confirm that the coat of arms, which is shown in the centre of the medal, was created for the school's centenary in 1892. On the other hand there's not a huge gulf between "circa 1880" and 1892 and this may even be a later version of the medal. I can find no trace of the award in the index of Robert Preece's book but I would be interested to find out more about this medal. Googling it reveals similar information to IHE's plus the name of the winner, a "Lissie Wedderspoon" or on another site "Lizzie Wetherspoon". I am sufficiently interested to do some checks over the next week or two since I still have access to the school archive which includes enrolment lists. If it helps, there was only one Wedderspoon listed in 1900 in Inverness at Gowanlea Ballifeary Road. He is listed as John Wedderspoon Sanitary Inspector for the County of Inverness so presumably his daughter

After the New bridge there is Young Street and then Tomnahurich Street takes you to Glenurquhart Road. Used to have the Ordnance Bar on it.

The Cnoc

Outfitters and Drapers

Rhymes with pier

No idea where that one is with the 1950's Hillman Husky in front, I note the pumps are Shell/BP and Esso which is a rare mix! Tomnahurich Street?

Jolly Monk in Beauly. Good chip shop nearby

Where is this IHE? I have had no sleep for three nights trying to think where it is! Is it Drumnadrochit? Got it now 'weeman' near the Telephone Exchange Yes. Sleep well

Where is this IHE? I have had no sleep for three nights trying to think where it is! Is it Drumnadrochit?

Bunchrew

Ross shire

It's 2.00 pm on a Saturday and the queue goes all the way to Telford Street

Fortrose

Eureka IBM! That's jogged my memory. I remember Lows on the corner of Bridge St (where I believe Sandy Grant may have worked as a butcher in a previous incarnation) and getting a particularly bad bottle of Spanish wine there which made me quite sick at a party. PS - you know something... I think the main contributors to this thread should recruit Old Caley Girl as a latter day Nora Batty and wander, misbehaving, round the streets of Inverness to the nostalgic strains of a harmonica! I don't remember a Sandy Grant but I only worked there 2 years and it was a long time ago! Come on Charles a bad wine was it not too much wine that made you sick IBM this stuff "Don Something-or-other" was real p!sh. I only started drinking Spanish wine again a couple of years ago when I went on an all-inclusive to Lanzarote and it was effectively free and in unlimited supply! Don Cortez?

Why would there be so many folk on the pier?

Is that the Haugh Bar?

Is it Culcabock Avenue?

The Great North Road

Building the Kessock bridge Jock