Inverness Remembered

18/10/2026

🌉 A82 Friars Bridge, Inverness

A fantastic construction view of Friars Bridge, which carries the A82 around Inverness city centre.

Completed in December 1986, the bridge formed part of Stage 1 of Inverness’s Inner Relief Road. It was designed by Jamieson Mackay & Partners and built by Edmund Nuttall.

This photograph gives a great look at the scale of the engineering involved — and there’s plenty of 1980s Inverness to explore in the background too! 👀

🗣️ Do you remember Friars Bridge being built, or travelling through Inverness before the Inner Relief Road opened? What changed most once the new route was complete?

16/10/2026

18/09/2026

Littlejohn’s in Church street where Auctioneers is now. Who else remembers the little model train use to run above your head? 🚂

31/08/2026

The suspension bridge over the River Ness on 31 August 1959, the last day it was open to traffic prior to its demolition and replacement with the bridge that spans the river today. On the left is the temporary bridge which was built in 1939, the year the suspension bridge was due to be replaced, before the outbreak of brought things to a halt

[photo: Dr William James Bethune]

07/08/2026

Big day for Dingwall

07/08/2026

04/08/2026

A horse at the Black Isle Show, on this day in 1949. It was the first staging of the Show since the end of WWII and around 6,000 people attended.

[photo courtesy of Nell Stephen]

31/07/2026

A hand-coloured glass plate negative showing a horse fair in Bank Street, in the late-19th century

[source: Joseph Cook Collection; Inverness Museum & Art Gallery]

27/07/2026

The floral clock in front of Castle, July 1990. It was part of the town's displays for the "Beautiful Scotland in Bloom" competition. The clock was 4.5 metres in diameter with the mechanism buried beneath. It was surrounded by three heraldic symbols depicting the coats of arms of Inverness's twin towns - Augsburg, La Baule and St.Valéry-en-Caux. Inverness Castle Experience

[source: Highland Council]

24/07/2026

A prize winning bull at the Northern Counties Show, Bught Park, , 23 July 1953

[photo: Jimmy Nairn; source: Highland Photographic Archive]