An inter-generational project to celebrate Grandparents of all ages, to share stories of life and work with a group of S1 to S5 pupils at Wick High School. Nucleus: The Nuclear & Caithness Archive is working in partnership with Generations Working Together, Wick High School and Wick Voices to encourage intergenerational conversations. By bringing people… Read more »Read more
This collection of black and white photographs from Dounreay featured recently in our successful ‘Parish Life’ series on Facebook. Above is a picture of some of the Dounreay police force standing with their dogs. Queues of people arriving at Dounreay off the buses. The cap just before it was added to the dome. The boat… Read more »Read more
Some of our Facebook followers will be aware we are currently running a series on parish life in Caithness. This original watercolour portrait of Wick Provost, John Kirk, was one of our choices for Wick Burgh Life. Kirk was the first chairman of the Wick and Pulteneytown Chamber of Commerce and was Provost of Wick from… Read more »Read more
On 10 January the RAF mined the waters off Burma to put a temporary halt to Japanese shipping in the area. On 11 January “Operation Pointblank” began, a series of raids targeted at weakening the capability of the Luftwaffe. And on 12 January the first “Victory ship” was launched, SS United Victory; the Victory ships… Read more »Read more
We’ll be delivering a one-off class in Discovering Local History here in the Archive Centre as part of the You Time Programme on Wednesday 17st August, between 11.00am and 12.30pm. If you’d like to know how to use old maps and records to trace the history of your house or local community, or just want… Read more »Read more
Caithness Archives Centre staff held an Open Morning at Dunbeath Heritage Centre on Saturday 19 March. We brought a selection of old documents relating to Dunbeath, Latheron parish as well as Caithness in general. The records included police conviction books, school records, poor law records, old maps, and a variety of other archives on display for you to browse… Read more »Read more
In this continuation of a letter to his family in Thurso David Barrogill Keith describes soldiers’ concerts, his pride in being a Scottish soldier, and a humorous story involving the Battalion’s Catholic priest (which starts with an encounter involving Kitchener and the other Allied generals and politicians in a restaurant in Calais and ends up… Read more »Read more
In this letter David Barrogill Keith writes to his mother in Thurso, preparing for a Christmas in Flanders away from his family. As the letter is a long one it has been divided into two parts: this first part describes what it feels like to be in the middle of an artillery duel, a short-lived… Read more »Read more
Letter 14: 14 December 1915 In this letter David Barrogill Keith writes a hasty note to his family in Thurso to say that he is now back from another tour in the trenches and is safe and well and in a “top hole billet”. Dated 14th December 1915, 10th Scottish Rifles, B.E.F. My dear… Read more »Read more
In this letter David Barrogill Keith writes to his family in Thurso to say that he is sending some souvenirs to them via his servant, including a bayonet which would “make a nice poker” and hoping to send out an empty German shell case which could be used as a dinner gong or a flower… Read more »Read more
