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Charles, the car could be an A30 or A35 with the A35 being introduced in 1956 an updated version. The A40 was the Farina had a more square body and was introduced in 1958. I do remember the chipper getting chips on the way home to the Merkinch from the Army Cadets at Cameron Barracks.

Not much happening in that one, must have been taken on a Sunday morning when everyone was at church!

Another Gem IHE the same year I was born but a lot further from............Eastgate looking east from the top of Ingles St. The Leyland tanker (a big one for that time) appears to be waiting at the traffic lights with the ERF behind and the old Austin further along the street. Note the registrations on the Bedford Dormobile and the Ford Popular are both JST and no yellow lines means you can park your Austin A35 while you go to the shops!..............I will leave it to the older generations to identify the shops Fraser & McColl is the only one I know.

It reminds me of the Alice Brewery in Inverness 1983-88 which was delivered by horse and cart which was a bit of a publicity stunt. I am sure the horse was owned a Mr Ross but I cant remember his first name.

You are keeping us busy and our brains active!

....like potential oil revenues? Oddquine, we disagree fundamentally on the issue of separation but your verbosity is hardly a major vice and I am somewhat prone to it myself. Furthermore anyone who knows what a Pyrrhic victory is and can spell it correctly has my profound respect. However I am these days transferring my CTO allegiance to the Old Inverness threads where I am actually also finding a great deal of empathy with some of my former adversaries on this thread. It will soon be time to start another thread for the General Election which I think will be more interesting than the last one!

Oddquine you may find a connection to the Bannerman's

If you are right about the swimming pool Charles that will make it between 1936 & 1947 when the power station closed. You can see part of the old railway bridge that was washed away in 1989 and that is the Black Bridge Scarlet, it has always been grey since I moved into Inverness! Along Portland Place to the left of the Black Bridge was the old Cameron Club. To the left of the picture is the Free Church on Chapel St and the Pentecostal Church which was known as The Model at that time (I think it was a Poorhouse) both churches have no spires but missing in the space behind that is the Friars Lane Telephone Exchange which building started in 1958 and it opened in 1961. And no McMurry and Archibald on Chapel Street!

It will be to mark the entrance to the Caledonian Canal there is one at the other end of the loch at Fort Augustus.

Stock car racing at the Longman That brings back one or two memories. More or less right on the current Caledonian Stadium site wasn't it? I remember the stock car racing well and recall John Harrison of Highland TV Services having a blue Hillman Minx but cant remember if it had a white roof and also remember the old hearse which was slow of the mark but could go like a tank! I think the track was more where the Kessock Bridge roundabout is now but would not put money on that. Does anyone know what that multiplicity of buildings are in the Lomgman airfield shot? They don't look like the kind of arrangement you might expect for a military establishment so I'm wondering if they might be some post-war creation - either industrial or emergency housing because there's something in the back of my mind which says that the airfield may have been used for that purpose immediately after the war. That is likely to be some of the old hangars that were dotted about the Longman or are you seeing something else?

I met him this morning. He's still going strong, there's still that hint of a combover - and you will be pleased to learn that he was wearing a "Yes - Still" badge. Sorry Mantis - I realised I'd made a typo I needed to edit. I remember him from the High School although he did not teach me, His father was headmaster at Fort Augustus and his mother taught there when I was at primary school before moving to Inverness. I thought the name was spelt Dunoon the same as in Argyll where I was born but my spelling was never good in school

This is longman airfield where you can clearly see the gasometer and the chimney from the old power station on Factory Street and Craig Dunain hill in the background.

You have bet me to it Charles! They are good old photos again, #63 the gasometer is stands out like a sore thumb, on #64 the Cathedral stands out more than anything. Good photos again IHE!

Charles you are right on this one! I didn't even bother to read it. Although I liked Oddquine's posts during the referendum

This was long before the home was built on the south side of Burn Road which was demolished a few years ago and now has new built houses on the site. On the north side of the road is the old Delnies farm house which was a piggery, the house is now split into two properties which is on Delnies road and on the west side of the old house is now Delnies Park. The large building may have been a sawmill but I am not sure. The large open space to the top left of the picture is now Glenburn Drive. One of the large stone houses to the front of the open space on Drummond Road now has a flagpole in the front garden with a saltire flying

He may well have been. Were you Amanda Anythingelse when you were at school by any chance? That's a terrible chat up line Charles........You have scared her off

I think you are winding us up with this one!

Good report RiG, and well done again to the team!

The white houses top left are the top Half of Lochalsh Road with the two large houses to the south are Fairfield Road, I think one of them was a former Manse or Rectory. To the east of that is the old stone houses at the north end of Dochfour Drive and Rangemore Road. Can you imagine how many houses would have been built in Dalneigh if Macrae or Tulloch the builders had the land now!

Why should they? Do Celtic let other teams train on their pitch the day before a game. Was not saying they should Joe!

I think it would be feck off and it would be words to the same effect if a worker in a Lake Constance tourist spot was offered a Scottish or Bank of England note

Tansey came back a better player, glad he has signed a longer deal.

Positive thinking Yngwie