Disgrace that is the Ferry of today

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How could they get so many boats in to Clachnaharry ?

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How could they get so many boats in to Clachnaharry ?

[IBM]

Through the lock gates IHE  that must have been from the days when there was a lot of herring in the Moray Firth.

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I wonder what happened to all the Herring ?

[IBM]

I wonder what happened to all the Herring ?

Over fishing no quotas in them days and a lot of hungry folk!  Did you ever eat herring and oatmeal?  When I stayed in Fort Augustus my father came home from Mallaig with a box of herring that fell off the back of a lorry  and with no fridge then we had it for days  I have not enjoyed it since!

[Charles Bannerman]

Through the lock gates IHE  that must have been from the days when there was a lot of herring in the Moray Firth.

Kessocks! Or to give them their full title Kessock Herring which were caught in the immediate vicinity of Inverness. Long gone now though.

[+bughtmaster]

Kessock herring fried in oatmeal.....delicious eaten with boiled tatties and an egg.

 

Think they were world renowned at one time, certainly they were talked about down in Englandshire when I first lived down there.Strange how they had a flavour and texture all of their own....just a pity about all the bones!!!!!!

 

I'm sure some of my age group will have sampled them and have have happy eating memories ???? doing so.

[+DoofersDad]

Kessock herring fried in oatmeal.....delicious eaten with boiled tatties and an egg.

 

Strange how they had a flavour and texture all of their own....j

 

That would have been before there was a sewage treatment plant!  Yum yum.

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Luv early with a David of gooseberry sauce

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More fishing

[IBM]

Salmon netting on Friars Shot, don't know what the old building is in front of the Power Station is, looks like an old warehouse. 

[Charles Bannerman]

Salmon netting on Friars Shot, don't know what the old building is in front of the Power Station is, looks like an old warehouse. 

I believe it was Pickfords and before that Lord Roberts' Workshop for ex-soldiers - a sort of predecessor of the Haig Fund establishments. Like Haig, Roberts was Army CinC - in this case at the turn of the 20th century.

[JockWatt]

Aye, CHERLIE, right next door to The Baths.

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But the Rosehaugh could take you to a Wonderland !

[Charles Bannerman]

But the Rosehaugh could take you to a Wonderland !

Aye... and it could take you away from one as well

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Were the bombs fer the school on the left ?

[IBM]

That's my old school the Merkinch  and without the flats in Dunabin Road you can see the Trinity Church.  What is now the playing fields was obviously a mine store during WW1.

[Charles Bannerman]

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 What is now the playing fields was obviously a mine store during WW1.

​Correct. In these days it was the only way they had of stopping the Merkinchers from invading the rest of Inverness.

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From the sights of the Luftwaffe

[+weeman]

Last time I was in there it was for fish and chips

[IBM]

Last time I was in there it was for fish and chips

Its now closed the nearest chippy is now Aviemore!  There was a bar very near in the late 70's with the front of an old fishing boat as part of the bar.

[Charles Bannerman]

Last time I was in there it was for fish and chips

I don't get the Ferry connection. Is that not Kingussie? Or Newtonmore? Kingussie I think.

Edited June 16, 2015 by Charles Bannerman

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Oops but when you post so many feckin piccies you are bound to get one wrong every so often 

[Charles Bannerman]

Oops but when you post so many feckin piccies you are bound to get one wrong every so often 

You are dead right! I don't know where you get most of them from.

[Ten4]

Stephens Brae?