by curator | Jul 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Our museum is delighted to be participating in Cromarty Open Gardens weekend on 2nd and 3rd July. Pop along to follow a trail of verses around the garden and orchard of a poem written in the local Fishertoun dialect. Have a go at reading them aloud! “Hunger “, written...
by curator | May 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
We are delighted to unveil a new addition to our courtroom this season. We now have on display a court crest – the coat of arms used in Scottish courts. In April we hosted a visit to the Courthouse museum by Lord Carloway, Lord President of the Court of Session and...
by curator | Apr 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Courthouse is open again from Sunday 17th April until mid October. Visit our beautiful building, listen to historic trials (in Cromarty’s unique Fishertoun dialect), learn about the town’s past and tell your own stories with Cromarty Camera Club’s exhibition –...
by curator | Apr 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
The last meeting of this short season for the Cromarty History Society will be held in the Cromarty Old Brewery at 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday 19 April 2022. Our very quick AGM will be followed by the showing of Memories of Cromarty: Films from the Archives. We are charging...
by curator | Apr 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
Scotland’s most senior judge took charge of the bench at Cromarty Courthouse Museum last Monday (4th April 2022). Lord Carloway, Lord President of the Court of Session, was visiting Cromarty and wanted to learn about the past legal proceedingsat the Courthouse and...
by curator | Mar 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Cromarty History Society talk for March 2022 tells of the rebellion and resistance by enslaved Africans on the plantations of Guyana, between 1800 and 1840. The talk is given by David Alston, author of Slaves and Highlanders, and draws on his extensive research on...
