Dunain House

[Charles Bannerman]

I believe that's the playing field at Craig Dunain where you can see Craig Dunain RFC's goal posts. I believe the golf course was just behind the trees.

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And the team - sponsored by Diggars. 

[Scarlet Pimple]

Id the guy in the middle of the back row a relative of Shaun Connery?

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GTF - Looks like it is going ahead !!

A housing developer has unveiled plans to convert a fire damaged Victorian hospital in Inverness into luxury homes.

Robertson Homes said the project at Craig Dunain would be one of the most complex ever attempted in the city and would cost about £13m to complete.

 

[Scarlet Pimple]

Seems a great shame to have ever considered just demolishing it.

If they gutted the insides and refurbished it completely then the old "CACHET" would be  retained and prices could be  much higher than perhaps these places would go for with modern  facades.

Just think, if I come "home" to retire, I could buy one of these townhouse-type -flats and every day I would be reminded  by the outside facade that I was back at the Royal Academy. And, at least better in appearance than the newer flats down by the river ?

Yep, that's what nostalgia from reading and enjoying IHE's threads does to you as one forgets that  all that glitters isn't gold.

Meaning? Simply that nostalgia is a fleeting emotion and that to think that coming "home" to die means complete happiness is probably flawed, if for no other reason than the fact that having  charted a long course away from "home" one inevitably changes and may be just as happy staying put wherever you have landed up. As I currently see it, it's people that make your life happy or otherwise not places so much.

Over to you IHE--give us an educated, professional view on this, can you?

 

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[Scarlet Pimple]

Ask a silly question.....? Sigh!

And how do you know I'm old.?

I'm not old , just past it.

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Dunain House FOR SALE

[dougiedanger]

Don't know how anyone could live in these places, given all the poor souls who suffered there.

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Just doon the road

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DISGRACE

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My second home

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THE FIRE 

 

 

[Scarlet Pimple]

IHE....Did the fire originate in the kitchen or was it  really arson?

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Even the old hoose on the old Golf course is going

[+snorbens_caleyman]

That's sad.  I have been in there many times - though not for a long time. 

My aunt and uncle used to live there, in the half on the left.  My uncle, Murd Smith, was engineer at the Craig, and my aunt, Pat, was in secretarial or admin.

Both still going strong, in case you knew them, IHE.

 

 

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I remember yer uncle and it was the Galloway's next door.

[IBM]

From this weeks Courier, a very young IHE