Charles Bannerman

Strangely enough DD, I did When I was a kid there was a small tablet called Marzine which my mother would give me in a spoonful of jam before a car journey. Strangely enough, ever since that, all I have to do is to think about Marzine and jam and I feel slightly queazy. My parents thought I was very prone to motion sickness, but the reality is that I am only slightly/moderately prone but in my very young days, the only car I really went in was my uncle's and it was his tendency to over correct when steering that made me feel bad. We only discovered that after my dad got his own car and, following a few Pavlovian months when I felt bad simply because I expected to, it then turned out that I was OK when my dad drove. After that I wasn't in my uncle's car for years until I started going to County games post-1994 and to save parking in Dingwall he would give me a lift there and back from their house in Maryburgh. I was really glad that it was less than 2 miles!

To the extent that there were not infrequent confrontations with those gentlement of Sneck who were not at the front or who, after the Armistice, had returned home.

When I was small there was a type of car I used to call a "Sunbeam Talbot" - quite simply because it was a Sunbeam which I first saw outside a cafe called the Queensgate Talbot which in the late 50s was just past the bottom left corner of that shot.

Perhaps not a question people would ask nowadays, given the current malaise within NHS Highland!

Wouldn't know how to I'm afraid - especially since my carrier pigeon has just died. It's easy Charles, click the red More Reply Options on the right, click Brouse, select your photo from your files (double click) click Attach This File and click the blue Add Reply. I'll take a look but when I was teaching, if anyone at a departmental meeting ever started a sentence with "You just have to click on....." I used to run out of the room screaming!

That particular Wade road presumably eventually passed Ruthven Barracks near Kingussie?

That makes sense because my son was born in the old one in Dec 1985 and my daughter in the new one in Oct 1987. I was born in the old Raigmore.

Wouldn't know how to I'm afraid - especially since my carrier pigeon has just died.

You mean ee train got up ee rodd with ee mail before ee collapse?

I think the maternity dept was in the old Raigmore brick building until at least the end of 1985 because my son was born there then - or at least the maternity wards were in the old building, but I think the labour suite was as well. So although many have indeed been born in the new Raigmore, I suspect that not many contributors to this thread will have been! PS - I'm trying to place exactly from where that photo may have been taken? Given that you can see Dalneigh Road bottom centre, just becoming St Andrew Drive at the very bottom, I reckon it must have been on or above the canal banks, just a bit to the Muirtown side of where St Andrew Drive intersects St Valery Avenue.

I was actually on the scene on the night in February 1989 when the railway bridge collapsed. I didn't see the worst of it but witnessed the latter stages. It was a very strange feeling!

The top of Tomnahurich seems to have been popular among photographers in these days. This looks like a pretty old photo since there is no sign of Maxwell Drive/Smith Ave/ Lindsay Ave and the string of houses across the middle are presumably Park Road, although strangely I always thought that the houses in Park Rd were single story, but apparently not. Victoria Park is still there with its bandstand and sports pavilion.

I didn't know Jock McDonald was left handed!

I think there was a pretty good consensus on here in 2012 that Olympic football is a complete joke and really shouldn't be given house room. Tennis is the same and so would golf be if it were to be included because these sports already have their own global structure as major attractions. Consequently, I would prefer the British Olympic Association simply not to bother entering a football team. I suppose you could see a sort of obligation for a home Games in 2012, but for Rio, I just wish they wouldn't bother. But what gets the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish so twitchy is that they alone have preferred, separate status within FIFA and UEFA whilst not being sovereign nations, and this highlights that anomaly. It's a bit like Prussia or Tuscany having their own teams and the three who do so have that privilege because of the "Grandfather Rights" of international football starting among Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales. What they therefore fear is that if the notion of a British football team becomes highlighted, pressure will grow for this privileged status of Great Britain getting four bites at the cherry to disappear.

The "Catch My Pal" Temperance (ie total abstinence) organisation used to run a football team in the Juniors. The Grant Street hall is in a really sorry state now but I believe it may be set to be refurbished.

#172 is behind the Playhouse which is still standing in the photo but I can't remember for how long the shell stayed there after the 1972 fire. That's what makes dating the photo difficult and I don't think even IBM could date the car from the amount of detail available!(???) This photo seems to be of some kind of outdoor market on the site, apparently where 1st - 4th streets used to be and where a car park stood for some years before the Eastgate Centre was built. As I recollect these old streetsd (in which part of the 1964 documentary "Culloden" was filmed) were demolished late 70s and if so there's a potential query there in relation to the Playhouse. You can also see the Rose Window which was part of the old Methodist Church. The window was removed many years ago and ever since has been festering in the Highland Council depot in Diriebught Road. #171 is a painting of the old Longman airfield the the Caopt Edward Fresson era of the mid 1930s when Highland aviation was in its infancy.

Is that somewhere near Tomatin on the old A9?

Whether it was designed to keep out the riff-raff or was simply an SPL vanity project, you are absolutely spot on with that gingerjaggy!

So, in similar records elsewhere, THAT'S who you tend not to see "Sevco" referred to all that much? Bloody computers, though! How often do you find that you can't do something because some damned lump of electronics says so? Back in their early days I went into the paper shop to pay my mother's papers but they said they coldn't take the money because the computer was checking the bills. Then you get sports events where it's clearly to everybody's benefit to make a late change but you can't because the computer says you can't. And don't start me on school science experiments! OK. Rant over. Never liked the things. However, irrespective of what the computer says, that important inaugural game was East Stirlingshire v Caledonian Thistle because that was what the club was called at the time. As for the goal, there is clearly considerable doubt, as Ian Broadfoot is at pains to emphasise in his book.

At the time it was definitely frequently credited as an OG but I now see where you are coming from Sneckboy. I have just checked Ian Broadfoot's book and he somewhat sits on the fence saying that the official record gives it to Herchie although several other sources credit it as an OG. I have to say that 20 years on that's the first time I've seen it credited as an OG, but that's now what the official record says. No point in asking Herchie... he will claim it for sure!! PS - official records can be wrong and this pedant would point out that the official record in the previous post refers to the club as "Inverness CT" whereas at that time it was simply "CT".... Caledonian Thistle PPS - I'm glad that the uncertainty is about Caley Thistle's second competitive goal and not the first which was definitely Wilson Robertson. Herchie then had his 15 minutes of fame (or rather 19 because that's what it took him), when he got the club's first SFL goal and hat trick v Arbroath four days later.

I'm not so sure about Herchie. Wilson Robertson scored in the team's first ever competitive match, a 2-0 Coca Cola win away to East Stirling on 9th August 1994 (the other goal was an OG.) As far as I am aware, Herchie (who was team captain that season) played in that game and then scored a hat trick v Arbroath in CT's first ever SFL match (5-2 at home to Arbroath 4 days later), but his second competitive appearance. If you want to include friendlies, then the first official friendly, in which both Herchie and Wilson Robertson played, was a 3-0 defeat by St Mirren so on that basis neither scored on their debut. On the other hand Ian Broadfoot refers to an earlier closed doors kind of encounter with RAF players as the club's first ever "game", so if both Hercher and Robertson scored on that occasion, some kind of case could perhaps be made. Robertson, by the way, scored not only CT's first competitive goal but also Caledonian's last in the 1-1 draw at Huntly in May 1994.

I think in Scotland we should just stick to the sports that we are good at, like, erm..... Well you can sure knock rugby off the list after than Wooden Spoon decider against Italy.

Beaten by a country which is a dysfunctional war zone and whose women compete in the Olympics wearing kit which is one step removed from a burkha! Somebody said that the Scottish players were docked 10% of their match fee for that defeat. So do these guys actually get paid for being as absolutely cr@p as that? I believe that no other country has played so many cricket world cup matches and failed to win any of them. Indeed Scotland's abject ineptitude at cricket is maybe a good reason to reduce the number of teams taking part in the World Cup so their embarrassment can be saved. And even at that, how many of these "Scottish" players are actually third rate Antipodeans or from the Indian subcontinent? On which subject, I heard a post match interview with the Italian rugby full back who sounded decidedly Southern Hemisphere. Strange how The Empire seem to be much better at traditional British sports than we are. I also wonder how this latest outcome is perceived among the ranks of the Nationalists? Gutted at Scotland losing or delighted that we don't do very well in this quintessentially English activity?

Rings true with what i've heard, hear we are looking to sign two players, one most probably being Kink but heard that Prince Rajcomar and the other lad have left #notintheknow Yeah according to my source you are correct Your source being Wickipedia ?.. Wickipedia? What's that? Similar to Wickileaks - which people have in toilets "up ee rodd" Then there's "email" - which is brought to them by "ee postie".

I'm just not sure about that in a Highland context Sneckboy. I don't think it would be fair to exclude a club which, for reasons of geography and employment, feels unable to play in League Two from being a member of the Highland League which has rules to ensure practicable travel. I'm also not very sure about this national pyramid in general for these very same reasons of travel and employment and fear that an element in its implementation may be the complete cluelessness of our Weegiecentric SPFL officialdom about the difficulties that much of the country has in getting from A to B. For its population I think that Scotland already has far too many national league clubs and the lower reaches of the SPFL would have been far better regionalised whilst retaining the opportunity, in principle, for the likes of Fort William to make their way to the Premiership should they ever become good enough. That, of course, would be subject to meeting criteria - specifically in Fort William's case, a reasonably playable pitch. I see their home game is off yet again today.