Inverness - the City of today

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Flora enjoys

[Charles Bannerman]

Flora enjoys

I'm glad the poor wumman has at least received some joy in her life. How would you all fancy standing there since 1746 getting your head shat on by seagulls?

[Kingsmills]

Seems I can't suppress  the pedantry today but she has only been shat on since 1896.

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Another gorgeous piccy ?

[Charles Bannerman]

Seems I can't suppress  the pedantry today but she has only been shat on since 1896.

As Captain Mainwaring would say "I was waiting for someone to notice that" but I decided to go for a bit of artistic licence since the statue depicts what poor Flora started doing in 1746. I didn't actually know the precise date of the statue but assumed that it originates from some time after the late 1830s which is when the castle was built.

It's predecessor was blown up by the Jacobites in 1746.

[Charles Bannerman]

Another gorgeous piccy ?

Absolutely!!!

Is there any connection between the fact that there is a full moon and that the Craig seems to be on fire?!

[Scarlet Pimple]

Kingsmills post #3

 

Well, let us be thankful  that it is not the peasantry that is being sh..t upon just old Flora.

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Let's keep them going

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And

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By the canal

[IBM]

And

That's an old one IHE!  We now have the Premier Inn and the Kitchen Restaurant where the Palace Bingo was and the building to the left  Good one of the Jacobite Queen.

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Still beautiful !!

[Charles Bannerman]

 

And

That's an old one IHE!  We now have the Premier Inn and the Kitchen Restaurant where the Palace Bingo was and the building to the left  Good one of the Jacobite Queen.

 

Restaurants may come and bingo may go... but "Tha Leejun" goes on forever.

(Or at least we hope it does if it can get this money for selling half the club!)

[IBM]

Still beautiful !!

From Ord Hill looks good, I always get a great feeling after been away and coming over Drumossie brae and seeing the lights of home.

[Charles Bannerman]

How does that photographer get these extremely rich colurs, especially blues, into his pics?

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Feck knows

[Charles Bannerman]

There must be some elment of "photoshopping", by which this technophobe doesn't mean any specific process but merely uses the word as a generic term to designate farting around in general with pics on computers.

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Photoshopping never

[Charles Bannerman]

Photoshopping never

Presumably you are emphasising here the ability of photoshopping to remove the G4S vans?

[IBM]

Feck knows

That's better now you have the Premier  Inn and The Kitchen.

[IBM]

Photoshopping never

That's Inverness Castle and Flora but I don't know where

[+DoofersDad]

Proof if proof were needed that Inverness is out of this world!

[Scarlet Pimple]

Unbelievable

 

But in post #9 which one is the Legion?

 

And is the Palace cinema showing in any of these?

[Charles Bannerman]

Scarlet.. going down Huntly Street from the Ness Bridge in #9, the Glenalbyn is on the corner, then there's the kilt shop which is the next white building. The next two brown sections are the Legion (the gap between them is the entrance) before you get to a new restaurant on the other side of the lane that leads to King St. I've forgotten what the fairly small white building after that was, but next along - ther large structure with the sloping roof - is the now demolished former Palace Cinema which has been replaced by a hotel. After that you have STV, Run4It and other shops/offices and then there's a long string of buildings associated with the Catholic Church before the former West Church on the corner of Greig St.

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A bridge for the castle ?