Caithness Archives Centre staff were at John O’Groats on the afternoon of Saturday 1 August, at one of the chalets kindly made available by Natural Retreats. On display were a selection of items from the archives, including old maps, a police conviction book from the 1870s, school records and architects’ drawings of the Castle of… Read more »Read more

For children 8-11 years. Venue: The Assembly Rooms, Wick. Price: £3 We’re delighted to announce that after the huge success of last year’s summer fun activity we’re running it again, with some all-new things for you to try. Join Fiona, Sharon and Gordon and have a go at a range of arts & crafts activities inspired by Caithness history,… Read more »Read more

The Caithness Archive Centre will be mounting an exhibition of maps, plans and drawings from the archives, showing the development of Wick Harbour down the ages. The exhibition is timed to complement the annual display in the St Fergus Gallery by the Wick Society of old photographs from the wonderful Johnston Collection – one of whose themes this… Read more »Read more

Planning permission has now been granted for the new Nuclear Archive to be built at Wick, Caithness. Work on construction will start this summer, and the building is due to be completed by the end of 2016. The archive will house more than 70 years’ worth of historic information from across UK’s civil nuclear industry,… Read more »Read more

The Caithness Archives Centre recently ran a course of four classes in “Tracing Your WW1 Ancestors”. The classes explored how to discover wartime service records online, and how to find out more about serving men and women through sources such as the census, birth and marriage records and school records. The course also considered how… Read more »Read more