Blog Entries from West Highland Museum
Blogs (web logs) and blogspots provide a unique insight into Highland life and nature in Lochaber and The West Highlands.
The titles and text snippets give a taste of each entry with direct links to the main blog entry on the host website.
We hope you will find time to explore the full articles and further information on the host blog sites.
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Last Update: Sunday, May 10, 2020 - 00:56
The West Highland Museum’s Commando room has proved to be a hugely successful recent development.
As a child in Banavie in the 1940s and 1950s, the Commandos’ legacy was still very...
On 8 May 1945 the country celebrated VE Day. Betty Bruce lived with her parents in Inverlochy village on the outskirts of Fort William where she attended the local primary school. Here she shares...
In 2016 it was a very distinct honour to work on the original sword of Donald Cameron of Lochiel (1700 – 1748).
Donald Cameron was the 19th Clan Cameron Chief who through the 1745 Jacobite...
The Lochaber Power Company and the British Aluminium Company were formed, and by 1924 work had begun on constructing a smelter at Fort William.
The amount of electricity required to produce...
A silver water cruet was donated to the West Highland Museum in 2011 and now forms part of the collection. The small silver water cruet was found in a burn in Glen Roy just over one hundred...
The Siege of Fort William took place during the 1745 Jacobite Rising, from 20 March to 3 April 1746.
As part of the 2019 Highland Challenge, I brought our participants to Fort William, where we...
In 1625, as the civil war raged in Scotland two Parliamentary armies tried to bottle up and destroy the Marquis of Montrose and his loyalist force in the Great Glen. Montrose suddenly appeared and...
Roderick MacKenzie was the son of an Edinburgh goldsmith who fought as an officer in Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army. It was often commented that MacKenzie bore an uncanny likeness to the Prince.
In...
In 2005 a fascinating letter found in 2003 in Winchester, England was passed to the West Highland Museum in Fort William. The letter dated 1746 details the deathbed confession of Neill Iain Ruairi,...
During 1832 an epidemic reached the shores of Lochaber, an epidemic that bears a gruesome resemblance to our present-day struggle against the Coronavirus. This mysterious new disease also arrived...
