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A cracker of the High School, castle & old bridge. Note the extension on left side of the Columba Hotel (directly above the castle) looks fairly new in this picture as it is a lot lighter in colour!

That's it, it is still going strong with a good congregation. It had been a joint charge with the Old High Church on Church Street for many years now 'Old High St Stephens' the Old High congregation is a lot more elderly and depleting as the years go on.

Scarlet you are exactly right, it is at the bottom of the picture 1/3rd in from the right, you can only see a bit of the cross roads, using a clock face in the center of the picture it is a 5 o'clock!

The old tin shed, was that not the gardeners hut Charles I thought you had a more important job!

Was that King Street IHE? Chapmans had a garage on King Street (now flats) to the rear of the Caley Club and I think the Caley Club may have been used as offices by them. I think it closed after Cordiners either took them over or won the Ford franchise and moved to Harbour Road. There is a mechanic I know an ICT Supporter North Stand who started as an apprentice with Chapmans then moved to Cordiners and still works at Macrae & Dick Ford.

Was the Inverness Motor Company part of MacRae and Dick and if so, did they have the Rolls franchise? (I also bought the somewhat unreliable Simca, my first car which I mentioned elsewhere, at the Inverness Motor Company in 1976. I also have memories of cheap petrol in days of youth. My pal had access to the family Hillman Imp and since he had a March birthday he passed his test with some of Sixth Year still remaining. Four of us would chip in half a crown each and the 10 bob's worth of 91 octane would take us all over the place. The Rolls Royce showroom was opposite the main entrance to the garage on Strothers Lane. There was a large ramp where you could drive up to the top floor where I think the body shop was. An old neighbor Alex Macdonald (dabbers) was the foreman paint sprayer with M & D and brought home a large Fanta bottle filled with a special polish (T Cut) for my fathers black Wolseley 16/60, with a lot of elbow grease it worked a treat! The Inverness Motor Company was along at the corner which was a furniture warehouse (Queensway I think) is now the PO sorting office. It had large windows then, the salesman must have seen you coming Charles when he sold you the Simca

That's another old one that looks like gas street lights!

It was a dire game in poor conditions and disappointed we didn't beat a terrible County side! It will be interesting to see the incidents talked about but like the game against St Johnstone in Perth it won't change the results. Let's hope for a bit more luck next week away to Partick, we will need it.

Hope the game is on tomorrow as I missed the last one!

The most impressive thing about Macrae & Dick when I moved into Inverness in 1968 was the showroom for Rolls Royce on the left as you went along Strothers Lane, I can't remember it being there very long. When I started driving in 1973 I had an old Ford Corsair and you drove into the garage from Strothers Lane and exited out onto Academy Street, the attendant dispensed the petrol £1's worth on a Friday night and it would last all weekend!

Yes I remember that drink!

The youngsters dances at the Caley for teenagers only and no drink, one of the people who run them was George Munro who worked in WM Lows on Bridge Street. Number 1 when I first went was Band of Gold by Freda Payne. I am glad there were no photos then as I would have looked similar to those above

The prison stands out in the mille of this one with St Stephens Church to the bottom near the right and a lot of open space between Old Edinburgh Road and Argyll Street and the same between Mayfield Road and Culduthel Road. The BBC building looks like a massive house, I am sure CB will know when it was taken over!

I am sure he died a few years ago.

That could be anywhere in the Highlands, it may have been the winter of 1978/79 I think when the Black Isle was covered like this even driving a lorry was strange only seeing snow out the sides 10 feet deep in the drifts. I was down between Culbokie and Poyntzfield in the morning and 2 guys had started to dig their car out similar to the snowplough. Passing back up the road a few hours later they had uncovered the car only to find it would not start After a jumpstart to get them going they went on their way.

You are far to polite Charles

No gritters in them days, just piles of sand at the road side an use your own shovel.

Not an easy one but only a guess, it may be Tarbert or Scalpay in Harris.

I bet you can count on nothing from Aberdeen, they are far to mean!

Think positive Charles! I do wonder if that plus option 6 will be a total waste of public money!

That's west to a not so busy Thurso harbor, the church tower in the town center stands out like a sore thumb!

That is some dump of snow in Grantown on Spey, I think that old sign is still on the now closed Strathspey Hotel!