tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78189588635040827662024-03-18T20:07:06.682-07:00The Streets Where We LiveA Family History Perspective
(Helmsdale and Portgower)Timespanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05557632544805330611noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7818958863504082766.post-55227534225744816302011-06-07T07:32:00.000-07:002011-06-07T07:32:48.029-07:00The end of project open night<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Open Night on Monday 2nd May was attended by over 60 people and was the culmination of over six months of research work into the history of the houses and past occupants in the villages of Helmsdale and Portgower and surrounding areas. The participants worked right up to the last minutes to produce a wonderful display including 10 street albums, hundreds of archival photos, the 1911 census and colourful pictures from local school children.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The albums are a must for family historians researching ancestors in the area and are available to consult in the Timespan Public Archive. A big thank you goes out to to all the participants who put the display together and to everyone who contributed photos and information - this was truly a community affair. The research will continue as there are many areas we didn't have the time to cover - if you are interested in helping with this research please get in touch.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLJSzDhiq3Dkep7bVnN2urumh1-GFTzPBkYE2JNEZDDyJzMdzLnSdVb7IexJsxGZyLOj2UGkblIa6-Sfb7VrxxNY06Xg5Fx0c2BEU8UI_PeZ1mV540PImYm00mxoWJRnJCYpf9Nhp7dfY/s1600/IMG_0143.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLJSzDhiq3Dkep7bVnN2urumh1-GFTzPBkYE2JNEZDDyJzMdzLnSdVb7IexJsxGZyLOj2UGkblIa6-Sfb7VrxxNY06Xg5Fx0c2BEU8UI_PeZ1mV540PImYm00mxoWJRnJCYpf9Nhp7dfY/s320/IMG_0143.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a lot of chat and reminiscing on the open night!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>Jacquie Aitkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048791619864644908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7818958863504082766.post-58525701635503503782011-04-01T10:11:00.000-07:002011-04-01T10:11:01.525-07:00Esther's Portgower Story<span class="gphoto-photocaption-caption"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The view most of us get of Portgower is from a car seat when we pass it by on our way north or south – giving little attention to its history or past occupants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The village of Portgower was one of the areas researched as part of the Timespan project called ‘The Streets Where We Live: A Family History Perspective’, supported by Museums Galleries Scotland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The research was undertaken by local resident Esther McDonald, who lately delivered a talk about her home village to a packed house in Timespan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esther has been researching the area where she lives for a few years now and has amassed a considerable knowledge of the village spanning the last 200 years.</span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5l26jz7F4ACbEn8OdHpA-3DDGcYjaNTXtrUAqy5SxTbnnhRUygBC9es5em-pOeQ90MC8dJdHrDM52yIIWEPx6niQB2gWLxhjGlGmFR6zyrpbkf0K2tB9IH3h8OUJWssRfrGaf8QppDjA/s1600/Esther+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5l26jz7F4ACbEn8OdHpA-3DDGcYjaNTXtrUAqy5SxTbnnhRUygBC9es5em-pOeQ90MC8dJdHrDM52yIIWEPx6niQB2gWLxhjGlGmFR6zyrpbkf0K2tB9IH3h8OUJWssRfrGaf8QppDjA/s320/Esther+2.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Esther McDonald looking at an old map of Loth Parish</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="gphoto-photocaption-caption"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="gphoto-photocaption-caption"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The talk started with Esther showing a photograph of ‘Scarf Rock’, a fallen rock stack, just off Portgower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rock was covered in ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Scarfs’</i> (or Cormorants), hence the name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The presence of numerous cist burials show that the area was occupied from at least the Iron Age (3500 years ago).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esther recalled the story when one of these cists was unearthed during ploughing and its remains, along with a rounded flint knife, was donated to the Scottish Museum of Antiquities by her father, JOF Mackay in 1960.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="gphoto-photocaption-caption"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A map dated 1773 by John Kirk showed that the land on which Portgower was later built formed part of Middle Garty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esther explained that the village had been created by the landowners, the Countess and Marquis of Sutherland, as part of their improvements over the wider district.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1815, Portgower has 18 named tenants whose rental amounted to £34/9/2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By 1819 a street of fisherman’s houses had been built (known as High Street).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1831 an advertisement in an Inverness newspaper was encouraging fishermen to come and live at Portgower from across the Firth, providing them with land for growing potatoes, ground for a garden, the rights to obtain mussels from Little Ferry and money towards a boat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several boats were registered from Portgower, which had an inlet and harbour for landing boats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike the other crofts in the area, the land for the fishermen was often separate from their house and garden.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="gphoto-photocaption-caption"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Esther’s story progressed a little further when she referred to the 1st Ordnance Survey map dated c1873, which showed a school in High Street (also known as Pokey Row) and another school near the bottom of Portgower Brae, as well as the Portgower Inn and the White Well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 2<sup>nd</sup> edition map dated c1907 showed that both had closed and a new school had opened in 1892 in Portgower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The road opposite became known as School Street.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="gphoto-photocaption-caption"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Esther then went on to inform the audience about the Portgower Inn where her mother, Catherine Mackay, currently resides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The heraldic datestone on the front of the inn shows that the inn was built in 1813.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was first leased to John Matheson, storekeeper, Helmsdale in 1814, who also had the lease of the Inn Farm and the hill grazing of Badstor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was then leased to John Thomson in 1830 and Adam Mackay in 1847.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A rare ‘Spirit Book’ in the family’s possession records the spirits bought by the inn and where they came from, e.g. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Clynelish, Leith and Pultney, as well as inspections by the customs and excise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Inn had a bakehouse and shop attached, as well as a coach house and stables, still standing today.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Some of the photos showed that many of the houses in Portgower originally had thatched roofs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of these buildings were later heightened and slate roofs added.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some barns were built on the downward slope nestling into the hillside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>High street was demolished in the 1960s and new Council houses were built, collectively called Brae Head Terrace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esther showed an amusing photograph of Fraser Mackay with a monkey pictured at the top of portgower Brae, as well as photos of the heavy snow drifts during the 1940s and 50s and past residents, e.g. Johnnie Miller (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moley</i>), James Sutherland (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Barney</i>) and Johnnie Melville, to name but a few.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Portgower was a vibrant crofting community that had strong links to the Highland Land League movement in the area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A local crofter called JT Murray gave evidence to the Napier Commission at the Helmsdale sitting in 1883, which helped crofters to gain some rights over their land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The day to day work included feeding and watering sheep, cows, pigs and horses – dipping and clipping sheep – cultivating the ground to grow crops for animals and humans alike! Esther explained that her family has been crofters down the generations which continues to the present day with Esther and her sister Claire, as well as other branches of the family. The war dead are commemorated on the Loth War Memorial which is currently situated in the new Loth Cemetery.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The hall at Porgower was built in 1930 by local workmen and residents and has played a vital role in village life over the years, e.g. Burns Nights, dances, fund-raising during war time, children and senior citizen parties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The current renovations of the hall are nearly finished and it won’t be long before more memorable events will be held there.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Esther’s research has comprised looking through the Sutherland Estate Papers, talking to Donald Bruce, Dina Calder, Catherine Mackay, as well as a wealth of documents held within her own family archive.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A display of street albums, photographs and artwork by the pupils from Helmsdale Primary School will be on display in Timespan from end of April.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Timespan would be delighted to hear from anyone with more information on any of the streets in Helmsdale and the houses in Portgower – all photos will be scanned and returned within a few days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For more information please e-mail: <a href="mailto:archive@timespan.org.uk">archive@timespan.org.uk</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Jacquie Aitkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048791619864644908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7818958863504082766.post-19355334302482588442011-03-19T07:08:00.000-07:002011-03-19T07:08:46.157-07:00Gartymore Crofting Township<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Today’s presentation centered on the crofting township of Gartymore, which is situated on the hilly slopes between West Helmsdale and Portgower. Much of the information was gathered from Margot Macgregor, Elizabeth Fraser, Esther MacDonald and Joan Murray. The 2-hour presentation included old photographs of the houses and many of their past occupants, including Nurse Gordon, John Oliver Fraser and Walter Davidson, the shoemaker. The 35 strong audience buzzed with discussion and many stories were told of bygone days.</span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The lands of Gartymore were held in wadset by Robert Pope in the early 1800s. These lands were redeemed by the Countess of Sutherland in 1815 and set into 'lots' for the displaced people from the Strath of Kildonan. The lots averaged out at about 2 acres and in 1831 a total of 75 tenants were recorded on the estate rental. Gartymore is the birthplace of the Highland Land League Movement, where crofters came together to fight for their rights. The crofters eventually won some rights when the Crofting Law was passed through the houses of Parliament in 1891. In 1981 a cairn was erected in Gartymore to the memory of the Land Leaguers who often me tin secret to plan their campaign.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></b></div></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXsJ80o9fj0LwX3Gx9ncrryp8JR1u9IPCBhaSMDTyamN0-9JyapRmv7JAzcs_1YZ5H60BCq2w6uwHLcQdoKCL-wsKHculgr2PKZvBlZWoDo71tHevXilJ_NALrsD0YD4H0No_cnzjZaWs/s1600/RM-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXsJ80o9fj0LwX3Gx9ncrryp8JR1u9IPCBhaSMDTyamN0-9JyapRmv7JAzcs_1YZ5H60BCq2w6uwHLcQdoKCL-wsKHculgr2PKZvBlZWoDo71tHevXilJ_NALrsD0YD4H0No_cnzjZaWs/s320/RM-8.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alice MacKintosh, a neice of Joseph Macleod, unveiling the Land League Monument in 1981</span></div>Jacquie Aitkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048791619864644908noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7818958863504082766.post-57124594591709416392011-02-26T05:10:00.000-08:002011-02-26T05:10:31.391-08:00Where is East Helmsdale?<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Over the last few weeks the project researchers have focused their attention on the area known as East Helmsdale - but where is it!</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTWDIJALwrHS2Thug0INKMUvUrQ4uH18K6LjztU-NncLYC-ir3zc_uXw0RYvmJwTOCo0qi_7wvWgaLEMuOkhuozR72L3ejfYftdcdwJwVTjr_OJQl9HFVt5LaI4qbJ5vbQgUyw7LEcQB4/s1600/IMG_0267.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTWDIJALwrHS2Thug0INKMUvUrQ4uH18K6LjztU-NncLYC-ir3zc_uXw0RYvmJwTOCo0qi_7wvWgaLEMuOkhuozR72L3ejfYftdcdwJwVTjr_OJQl9HFVt5LaI4qbJ5vbQgUyw7LEcQB4/s320/IMG_0267.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> Timespan audience attending East Helsmdale presentation</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A map by John Kirk dated 1773 refers to the whole area to the north of the river as Easter Helmsdale and comprises old rig and furrow cultivation and a few small clusters of houses. This map also refers to a place called '<i>Boggallan</i>' (known today as the Bogholes) in the area between the village and Navidale. A later map dated c.1819 refers to East Helmsdale as being between the village and Navidale and the other part as the '<i>Moor of East Helmsdale</i>' (known today as Old Helmsdale). It also refers to <i>'Widdows Cottages</i>' which is the earliest date for the existance of the Almshouse (known today as The Barracks).</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By 1820 the area of East Helmsdale was the land at either end of the village, excluding the village itself. The first Ordnance Survey map dated c1873 shows the location of houses in both these areas, some of which are annotated as '<i>ruin</i>', as well as the houses on Strath Road. This map also shows the location of an 'Almshouse' (known today as The Barracks). </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The later developments of East Helmsdale incude the building of the following streets, i.e. Simpson Crescent, Rockview Place, Farr Crescent, The Glebe (a reference to the chuch lands in the area) and Golf Road (locally known as the Pens).</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A member of today's audience Edward Mackay shed some light on the Pens. He informed the group that the original location of the sheep pens was on the land now occupied by part of Golf Road and where his house is located. He said that he used to play on the Pens Parkie. This is where the annual sheep sales would have taken place in the 19th century. He said that the location of the pens for the sheep sales was moved to the other side of the river next to the Helsmdale Graveyard and near the railway station. This allowed the sold sheep to be easily taken to the station for transportation south.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span>Jacquie Aitkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048791619864644908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7818958863504082766.post-50263463388140005622011-01-29T06:50:00.000-08:002011-02-11T07:59:52.699-08:00Talking about Sutherland Street<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><o:smarttagtype name="Street" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="address" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><style><!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";}@page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;}div.Section1 {page:Section1;}--></style> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The programme of street talks is well underway and audiences in excess of 30 are coming back again and again to enjoy the banter and learn about the houses in Helmsdale. The first talk focused on <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Shore Street</st1:address></st1:street> and the development of the early fishing village and then proceeded with the second talk about <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Dunrobin Street</st1:address></st1:street> and the early commercial development of the village in the early 1800s. The latest talk on <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Sutherland Street</st1:address></st1:street> was presented by Joan Murray, a member of our research group. </span></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ1fBfWXmMIZAm5E9hEjEg_Y4PQ0sYCoqab0gA-NpKhscIPn-orX2XdoJHzOLVPLa5GgeUyNVxvuz3-N2Cva7AJprXlVZ3l0qevRAY2Zr_UCkNxhARBzpdcqHUX6EDj07XBIKeCYx15BU/s1600/Picture+142.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ1fBfWXmMIZAm5E9hEjEg_Y4PQ0sYCoqab0gA-NpKhscIPn-orX2XdoJHzOLVPLa5GgeUyNVxvuz3-N2Cva7AJprXlVZ3l0qevRAY2Zr_UCkNxhARBzpdcqHUX6EDj07XBIKeCYx15BU/s320/Picture+142.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Joan has really looked into every house in some detail and was able to recount the history to each house to a captivated audience. She informed the group that there used to be a smiddy (blacksmith) on the street in c1873, but it was gone by c1906. She showed the group an image of a house called <st1:place w:st="on">Valhalla</st1:place>, which was formerly the old police station. A few entries from the police log book gives a fascinating insight into the life of a local bobby back in 1874.</span><style><!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";}@page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;}div.Section1 {page:Section1;}--></style> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Monday 2 March 1874 </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">At 8 am, left my Station and patrolled the village generally during the day. Completed weekly and monthly reports. Also reported the number of men employed on the Railway between Helmsdale and County March for week ending Saturday 28th ultimo being as follows, viz; Railway Labourers 227, Masons and their Labourers 26, Platelayers 30, Wirefencers 9, Telegraph men 9, Carters 4, Joiners 2. A total of 307 men. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">Attended the arrival and departure of afternoon trains. Called on D. Macdonald, Station Agent, Helmsdale. Called on Mary Sutherland or Fraser, Lotter, <st1:place w:st="on">West Helmsdale</st1:place> and warned her according to the CC instructions anent my report of 13th and 19th Ultimo to tie up her dog or destroy it. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">Forwarded an Application for a Pedlar’s Certificate for Ian Harper aged 26 years a Hawker, presently residing at <st1:place w:st="on">Upper Helmsdale</st1:place>. Patrolled the village during the evening. Attended the departure of mail coach at 8.40 pm. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Night Duty </b>– At 9.30 pm patrolled the village, visited the Porter and Ale House occupied by Jane Sutherland or Mackay at 11.5 pm, visited <st1:city w:st="on">Anderson</st1:city>’s <st1:place w:st="on">Inn</st1:place> at 11.10pm, found them regular. Returned to my Station at 11.30 pm.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The current owner of the house kindly allowed us to photograph the original windows of the cells at the rear of the house, complete with iron bars.</span></div><br /><p:colorscheme colors="#ffffff,#000000,#808080,#000000,#bbe0e3,#333399,#009999,#99cc00"></p:colorscheme><div class="O" v:shape="_x0000_s1026"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ_PsL7G7DhVjIEHpofC65fp_Mpyx31TkDz2oDtZp8TRm5WWy6n6JkLFg99MWsPQKPzpl1QoKUTorznqBIKyQBOzOQr6ZVENzV512vK5NW9TIuebSwP45NcULsSzk8Ag7utKAoOwLPm90/s1600/Picture+171.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ_PsL7G7DhVjIEHpofC65fp_Mpyx31TkDz2oDtZp8TRm5WWy6n6JkLFg99MWsPQKPzpl1QoKUTorznqBIKyQBOzOQr6ZVENzV512vK5NW9TIuebSwP45NcULsSzk8Ag7utKAoOwLPm90/s320/Picture+171.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="O" v:shape="_x0000_s1026"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span> <br /><div></div></div>Jacquie Aitkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048791619864644908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7818958863504082766.post-22943429364860856582011-01-26T09:47:00.000-08:002011-01-26T09:48:55.104-08:00Chatting in the street!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq9-8aG2jigB8uMYTz7imwHVVW5q6QMdQQeeAUw6yKO-MDRVVAe-igQobKM3KCJb5O2SSs0WOiBS1DtXJJqKUqWmhXJSL2qLzqG8EXJrRBrMgySfhfH5fGgjhpob41GtwgmPz8eiBHzHw/s1600/scan+19-01-2011+11h39m29s_11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br />
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Wednesday sessions have progressed from desk-based research to walks around the village to locate houses, take photographs and chat to local residents. It is so nice to see people meeting up to chat about the streets project and some residents have kindly invited us into their homes and gardens to see features from the past. The main aim is to locate the different houses on a street and note where houses used to be, in the past, before they were demolished.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The recent walk along Old Caithness Road brought back many memories by group members Christine Cowie, Jean Sargent and Jim Mackay. Christine used to go to the old school (now called Rutherford Terrace)and then attended the new school built in 1955. She is pictured here sitting on the steps outisde the school as a child in the late1950s and sitting on the steps today - she hasn't changed a bit!</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The new archive centre in <st1:place w:st="on">Inverness</st1:place> houses a large collection of records from this area, including valuation rolls and census records. The research trip that took place on Wednesday 12th January was very productive and a second trip is planned for mid February. The members of the group were able to browse through valuation rolls dating back to 1874 through to the 1980s. A number of valuation rolls have been copied for both Kildonan and Loth Parishes and are now available in the Timespan Archive to consult.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div>Jacquie Aitkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048791619864644908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7818958863504082766.post-76476100461369132662011-01-08T07:53:00.000-08:002011-01-08T07:55:02.229-08:00Bruce the baker on Lilleshall Street<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDpuG_WzhONHEXsV6T_aPluMQz8fdsWce_YxHAR-Ow17tdFV4Jwh5f6aiZ_bcngU46xr6K3nWnWCzrP_SIQMJlL2viguRu4x64IJulsSseUEyKv-rnYClwMTSYa2dbhWNoobL5brwafus/s1600/562.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDpuG_WzhONHEXsV6T_aPluMQz8fdsWce_YxHAR-Ow17tdFV4Jwh5f6aiZ_bcngU46xr6K3nWnWCzrP_SIQMJlL2viguRu4x64IJulsSseUEyKv-rnYClwMTSYa2dbhWNoobL5brwafus/s400/562.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">G. Bruce, the baker on Lilleshall Street, Helsmdale, c1910</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Some members of the streets group took a walk around Helmsdale last Tuesday to deliver invitations and speak to residents. Gerry Wood, who is researching <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Lilleshall Street</st1:address></st1:street>, spoke to the residents of Kindale Guest House, who informed her that their house used to be an old bakery (G. Bruce) and the remains of the shop ovens still existed in their back garden. This was an opportunity not to miss and the owners kindly allowed access to see and photograph these rare features. It became apparent that the ovens were housed in a separate building once attached to the house and main shop. The owners said that evidence of burning was revealed during renovation work to the house.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYSV0k1g_nOYIeMV4tpp9KcUlbsZmXWLoq02Mlyp1N2iH0OZgiWmNvtRi56zwR53NiAWpmConB3tnQVudWro1efBegniSX100jJFdopwCgpQjqI1MBcL2TMPs8TRfwSTT_LRceWNvPXr4/s1600/DSCF0080.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYSV0k1g_nOYIeMV4tpp9KcUlbsZmXWLoq02Mlyp1N2iH0OZgiWmNvtRi56zwR53NiAWpmConB3tnQVudWro1efBegniSX100jJFdopwCgpQjqI1MBcL2TMPs8TRfwSTT_LRceWNvPXr4/s320/DSCF0080.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The remains of the bakery oven in the back garden</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div>Jacquie Aitkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048791619864644908noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7818958863504082766.post-18197905976933756232011-01-08T07:15:00.000-08:002011-01-08T07:15:51.575-08:00Street talk goes down well in Timespan!<o:smarttagtype name="Street" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="address" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><style>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5hNf9qnQWkWHEJ8nWJ0FFFaWTckfjSv63yl_88Hd5Hx26Z9pFdgi5fh5o7I8jP18MfSswZSs254AgRMa3C2uEfjqrjGcEOWx6Z4oXEg83umPyNFtjKB6kNP_SML9lB4saS4L5LkPfvc4/s1600/Picture+131.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5hNf9qnQWkWHEJ8nWJ0FFFaWTckfjSv63yl_88Hd5Hx26Z9pFdgi5fh5o7I8jP18MfSswZSs254AgRMa3C2uEfjqrjGcEOWx6Z4oXEg83umPyNFtjKB6kNP_SML9lB4saS4L5LkPfvc4/s320/Picture+131.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Group attending talk by Nick Lindsay in Timespan</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today, Nick Lindsay, the Chairman of Clyne Heritage Society, presented a talk about his research on the houses and past residents in the Parish of Clyne. He informed the group that he had used the information obtained from census records, valuation rolls, statutory registers, and graveyard records, compiling it all into computer searchable databases. He said that colour coding the information was a useful way of following a house or property and its occupants through the ages, i.e. 1841 to 1901. There were many questions from the 20 strong audience, some of which had traveled from Brora for the event. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nick told the group that during the course of his research he had found out that some street names had changed over time, i.e. Commerce Street in Brora changed to <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Roselyn Street</st1:address></st1:street> by 1871. He also indicated that the first ever valuation roll numbers recorded in 1849 were allocated to existing tenants in alphabetical order according to surname and that these numbers were the original croft numbers, some of which are still used today.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He had also noted that some census records contained <i>‘bynames</i>’, as well as the correct surnames. This was probably done to distinguish between the many families with the same surname, i.e. Robert (<i>Bain</i>) Sutherland.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He finished his presentation by informing the group that his research would take another five years to complete - and he wished the Timespan group well with their ongoing research!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div>Jacquie Aitkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048791619864644908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7818958863504082766.post-56093640508048314062011-01-02T09:37:00.000-08:002011-01-08T06:36:36.140-08:00A view from Helmsdale Rock<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Happy New Year 2011!</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">STREET TALKS/DISCUSSIONS</span></b></div><span style="font-family: Arial;">Don't miss our Saturday programme of talks in Timespan. We will be looking at the different streets in Helmsdale, starting with Shore Street on Saturday 15th January in Timespan from 10.30am-12.30pm. This event will include a look at an amazing collection of old images of the oldest street in Helmsdale, a presentation of the most current research carried out by the group and a discussion about daily life and stories. We would be delighted to hear from any past residents and hope that you will come along.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The streets project will get back on track this week after a short festive break. The snow has nearly gone and our long-awaited research trip to the Inverness Archive will be re-scheduled to take place in the next two weeks - keep watching the blog for updates. The next workshop is on Saturday 8th January in Timespan from 10.30am-12.30pm - everybody welcome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Local researcher, Nick Lindsay (Chairman, Clyne Heritage Society), hopes to join us on Saturday 8th to talk to us about his research on the Parish of Clyne and its past residents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A selection of Valuation Roll extracts for Kildonan and Loth Parishes has been ordered from the Inverness Archive covering the period from 1874 to 1981. This information will greatly enhance the genealogy resources freely available to consult in the Timespan public archive.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>APPEAL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS</b></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We would be delighted to hear from anyone who has old photographs of houses in Helmsdale or Portgower, i.e. before and after renovation work, past occupants, old features etc.</span>Jacquie Aitkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048791619864644908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7818958863504082766.post-3422955843924049612010-12-22T08:20:00.000-08:002010-12-22T08:25:41.461-08:00Merry Christmas from us all!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWZEmXO_6HVhJ5rhuMpoSs7xnRCobv-8On5x4ybu3n3T8J6BHiCcIyFdW_7Sx5OJ8jS5TFrwGEmdJ0l5GLQbf4f91tpc_K0e4Qa3_YAt1ZXWA_t5cxJCfXKRTl3myPSl7E8uArB8dvtPU/s1600/Picture+127.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWZEmXO_6HVhJ5rhuMpoSs7xnRCobv-8On5x4ybu3n3T8J6BHiCcIyFdW_7Sx5OJ8jS5TFrwGEmdJ0l5GLQbf4f91tpc_K0e4Qa3_YAt1ZXWA_t5cxJCfXKRTl3myPSl7E8uArB8dvtPU/s320/Picture+127.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The group met up for the last time today before having a well earned break over the Christmas period - although, I know that they will still be carrying on their research - when time allows.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The freezing snowy weather has certainly scuppered our plans to visit the Inverness Archive, which has now been postponed three times! The trip will now take place early in the New Year and I know we are all keen to look at the Valuation Rolls and other documents that will help us with our research. All the census records have been printed off and distributed out among the participants. Many of the participants have already started to collate their street information into databases and street forms - it looks like we are on track! The group has effectively combined the use of local memories and historical documentation to great effect in this project.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The Streets Where We Live Invitiations</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">Coming your way soon!</span></b></i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The main task today was organising the invitations and questionnaires for distribution to the members of the local community<b>. </b>The invites contain information about the community talks/discussions that will take place in the New Year. Everybody is welcome to come along!</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Community Illustrated Talks/Discussions 2011</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">We would like to invite you to attend our programme of community talks in Timespan, which will include a history of the development of the ‘streets’ in Helmsdale and Portgower, old photographs through the ages and a look at some of the houses and their past residents. We also look forward to talking to local residents about where they live and what changes they have experienced in their lifetime – and correct our mistakes! If you want to learn more about your house then come along and get involved – there will be good banter and a cup of tea for all!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>All talks on Saturday mornings from 10.30pm to 12.30pm in Timespan</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">15<sup>th</sup> January - <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Shore Street</st1:address></st1:street> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">22<sup>nd </sup>January - <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Dunrobin Street</st1:address></st1:street><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">29<sup>th</sup> January - <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Sutherland Street</st1:address></st1:street><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5<sup>th</sup> February - <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Stafford Street</st1:address></st1:street>, <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Trentham Street</st1:address></st1:street> & <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Lilleshall Street</st1:address></st1:street><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">12<sup>th</sup> February - <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Stittenham Street</st1:address></st1:street> & <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Old Caithness Road</st1:address></st1:street><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">19<sup>th</sup> February - East Helmsdale and the Bogholes<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">26<sup>th</sup> February - Glebe Terrace & Rockview Place<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5<sup>th</sup> March - <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Golf Road</st1:address></st1:street> and <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Strath Road</st1:address></st1:street><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">12<sup>th</sup> March - Portgower Streets</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>Jacquie Aitkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048791619864644908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7818958863504082766.post-24495119038908722172010-12-22T07:55:00.000-08:002010-12-22T07:55:25.483-08:00Uncovering street features from the past<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There are many old architectural features still to be found in the streets of Helmsdale, which are the lasting remnants of a way of life long gone, but not forgotten! The members of the group have been collecting this information and many interesting sites have come to light.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Belgrave Hotel in Dunrobin Street</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The two most Easterly windows at street level facing Dunrobin Street, have iron spikes inserted in the window sills. This was done to discourage the practice of men congregating at Street corners for a blether and if a window sill was at a convenient height it could be used as a seat. A regular window sill where this practice was carried out was opposite the above mentioned windows, where the window at Alf's Corner was used.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Rutherford Terrace (Old School)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Original school bell still in situ.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">AR McLeod's store in Trentham Street</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">A wooden hatch fitted in the wall at North end facing Trentham street, enables coal to be shoveled from a lorry into the shed when McLeod's sold and delivered coal circa 1955-1964. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Trentham Street east pavement </span></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Outline of the covers where the three petrol pumps and one diesel pump existed, circa 1948-1996.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Co-op Lane</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">A hatch was built into the wall of the former CO-op bake house at ground level. Fresh bread and rolls could be purchased from the bakers at this hatch in the early morning before the main shop opened.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The Green Stag (part of the Bridge Hotel), Dunrobin Street</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">A curved stone canopy, where a post-box used to be located, still exists in the wall at the corner of this building. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">La Mirage in Dunrobin Street</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">A very unusual barrel-shaped stone feature exists on the top of the front wall, at the western corner, where the roof meets the wall. This is the usual location for datestones. The barrel symbol may relate to an earlier use of the building as a public house.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Wall on Stittenham Road</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">This wall has many interesting features such as blocked up doorways and an unusual masonry block inserted into the wall, with what looks like pre-historic cup-marks on it.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Do you know of any more architectural features?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">If you do please get in touch and share this information with the Helmsdale community! </span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div>Jacquie Aitkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048791619864644908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7818958863504082766.post-86495356652821985512010-12-16T05:30:00.000-08:002010-12-16T05:44:35.535-08:00Delving into Dunrobin Street<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It can be shown using map evidence that the first houses appeared in Dunrobin Street around 1815-1820. This is the main street in the village, where most of the shops were/are located - a real hub of commercial activity. Maggie Codd, one of the street researchers, has been looking at the houses in Dunrobin street and has had some success in matching the houses with past occupants using the Valuation Rolls, OS maps and old archival photographs.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maggie has noted that valuation rolls from the 1960s onwards have quite a few house numbers recorded. This is not the case for the vluation roll dated 1894-95, which has no house numbers marked. Maggie has approached her research by making a list of all the house numbers for Dunrobin Street from the 1960s valuation roll, along with their associated vluation roll numbers. These numbers stay the same in each valuation roll up until the 1970s onwards. In this way, Maggie can find the location of the house on the street map and retrace the occupants back through the vlaution rolls - very clever!</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div>Jacquie Aitkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048791619864644908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7818958863504082766.post-33729921693650284332010-12-15T09:40:00.000-08:002010-12-16T04:35:56.156-08:00Some comments from the participants!<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Lisa Macdonald</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"This is a fascinating project, so interesting to find out the history of the houses in the streets and how the streets have changed over the years."</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Jean Sargent</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"Gives a real insight into Helmsdale's past and present. it's very exciting to trace the history of your own house."</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Leoma Aitken</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Very evocative! Learning about a village I don't know really well. Amazed at similarities to my home village of Hilton, in Ross-shire (both fishing places)."</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Christine Cowie</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Reminiscing has brought back so many memories, lost over time. Need more local contemporaries on board to share information."</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Maggie Codd</span></b><br />
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</style><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> Today the group was reminiscing about the way of life in Helmsdale and how it has changed over the years.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anne Sinclair</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"We playing marbles, hop-scotch, cops and robbers and pushing our dollies pram along the pavement - there were fewer cars about then. There seems to be fewer children playing outside these days and no sledging in <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Stafford Street</st1:address></st1:street> - we used to sledge all the way down from the top of the brae right down to the harbour."</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>David Cowie</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"When the nights were dark we used to play a prank in <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Stafford Street</st1:address></st1:street>. We used a cardboard box and made it look like a parcel or present. We tied string to one end of the box and placed it in the middle of the road. When a car came along it stopped to see what was this box on the road. We waited till someone got out of the car and tried to pick up the box - and then we pulled the string and the box came with it. It gave the person such a fright!"</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"I also remember when the scaffie cart used to come around the village to collect the rubbish and dump it at the area now known as the lobster ponds (or the 'distill'), beyond the end of <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Shore Street</st1:address></st1:street>. One of the scaffie men called Hughan Sinclair had a white horse. It was thought to be bad luck for a white horse and cart to cross the old <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Telford</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Bridge</st1:placetype></st1:place>. If this happened the legend foretold that the bridge would collapse! So, Hughan unleashed the white horse from the cart and took the cart and horse across the bridge separately."</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"In pre-electricity times all the people took their wireless wet batteries to A R McLeod's for re-charging. They could do 30 at a time. Villagers could also get paraffin from McLeod's or at a shed near Nellie Ross's. McLeod's were the main television distributors and as boys we used to watch sports events through the window of their showroom."</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Gerry Wood</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"I had my veg delivered by horse and cart as late as the early 1980s by Bob Humble."</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jean Sargent</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"I remember my mother telling me that Tilley lamps were still being used in the upstairs rooms of the Bannockburn Hotel up until the 1950s. When I used to come to Helmsdale on holiday I noticed that all the women wore headscarves and used wicker shopping baskets"</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jim Mackay</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"The fish lorry used to take the fish from the harbour ot the train station and they went from there to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Glasgow</st1:city></st1:place> for sale. A small tanker with paraffin was used to refill the boat engines at the harbour and the fishermen had to take their own supply of water with them as there was no provision at the harbour."</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Christine Cowie</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"The fishermen used to call into each others house on their way down to the harbour to go to sea. They used to just come into the house and call 'put the kettle on' and after a cup of tea was had they would then make their way to the next house. On a Saturday the crew would put on their best suit and congregate at the skipper's house where he would distribute their earnings. Chocolates would be bought for the wives, sweeties for the bairns and maybe the men would have a few drinks in the local pub."</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Joan Murray</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"In the 1960s Helmsdale still had an unofficial school truant officer."</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Our last meeting of the year will be on Wednesday 22nd from 10.30am to 12.30pm.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i> </i>The group have begun to put up a dispaly in the Timespan workshop area - please come in and see our research for yourself - maybe you can help us. We are now looking for old house photos!</span></div><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></i>Jacquie Aitkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048791619864644908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7818958863504082766.post-45731802309921066432010-12-15T08:04:00.000-08:002010-12-15T08:28:19.930-08:00Dunrobin caretakers join forces!<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A few more street caretakers have joined the group and are enjoying learning about Helsmdale's streets and past inhabitants.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maggie Codd, a resident of Dunrobin Street, is joining forces with Lisa McDonald, to uncover information about the houses in Dunrobin Street. They are undertaking research on both sides of the street and this will involve locating the houses with numbers, as well as some of the older houses that were demolished in the past. It has already become evident that there is a gap in the house numbering sequence from around number 33 to number 61. The older OS maps clearly show that there were houses in this area, which have been knocked down in the past. The postal addresses can have house numbers or names, which can make it quite difficult to retrace the past occupants.</span><br />
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Their research has shown that the east part of Shore Street was the first street to be built in the new village of Helmsdale around c1814. There were several families living in this street in the past, as recorded by David Cowie, but the population declined as many of the older curing yard buildings and accompanying houses were knocked down in the last century. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mike has been using a computer package to create a 3D virtual model of what Shore Street looked like from the very earliest maps and images. He has already drawn up the 3D image of the old curing yard at the west end of Shore Street (later converted into the Timespan Museum). Mike is interested in the fish packaging processes that took place in the curing yard and plans to include this detail in his model - this really is a first for Timespan, well done!</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gerry has had some success of her own to boast about. She is researching Lilleshall Street and has just found out the location of her Great-grandfather's house. She used local knowledge from local resident Anne Sinclair, as well as the information on the Valuation Rolls and OS maps. The house is now called Westgate, but it used to be owned by her Great-uncle, Charles Gordon, who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada from c1880s to the late 1920s.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSqHmJBbLTALbw39u16vKDCucTazNmju2zMC10ViWsUdJvKjZg8eZC_RP6khgyIR0-ButtqFcBs1b_WQI3zoG5omfuUP_imYPNmKF3xCd6ieubT-oZgW20-1LnONgVCQY_NbOiACIk9wo/s1600/Picture+132.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSqHmJBbLTALbw39u16vKDCucTazNmju2zMC10ViWsUdJvKjZg8eZC_RP6khgyIR0-ButtqFcBs1b_WQI3zoG5omfuUP_imYPNmKF3xCd6ieubT-oZgW20-1LnONgVCQY_NbOiACIk9wo/s320/Picture+132.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mike and Gerry Wood at today's research session</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div>Jacquie Aitkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048791619864644908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7818958863504082766.post-40440828838757394362010-12-08T08:07:00.000-08:002010-12-09T09:24:49.902-08:00More about Helsmdale's many lanes<style>
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</style><span style="font-family: Arial;">The group has been uncovering information about the many lanes, corners, braes, parks etc associated with the streets in Helmsdale. A special mention has to go to David Cowie, who has been very busy researching this topic by talking to local people and typing out his research for us all to enjoy. I didn't know Helsmdale had so many lanes! Can you add any more to our list?</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><o:smarttagtype downloadurl="http://www.5iantlavalampft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype downloadurl="http://www.5iamas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype downloadurl="http://www.5iantlavalamp.com/" name="place" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype downloadurl="http://www.5iamas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><style>
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<div class="NoSpacing"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Lane names still in use</span></u></b></div><div class="NoSpacing"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></o:p></span></u></b></div><div class="NoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Couper’s Lane<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Current route - West to East from Lillieshall St to Trentham St<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Streets connected - <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Lillieshall St</st1:address></st1:street>to <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Trentham St</st1:address></st1:street><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Other names - <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Mound Lane</st1:address></st1:street>,<st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"> Embo St</st1:address></st1:street> or <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Shore Lane</st1:address></st1:street></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">This lane allegedly continued from <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Trentham Street</st1:address></st1:street> to <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Stafford Street</st1:address></st1:street> and then on to <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">East Dunrobin Street</st1:address></st1:street>. The OS village map dated c1874 & c1906 indicates that the lane only continued from <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Trentham Street East</st1:address></st1:street> to the <st1:place w:st="on">Westerly</st1:place> boundary belonging to the rear of the Belgrave Hotel. This section of lane was in use from <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Trentham Street East</st1:address></st1:street> to the <st1:place w:st="on">Westerly</st1:place> boundary of what is now the Community Centre, dated c1975.</span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">(David Cowie, 04/12/10)</span></i>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxYZby-RGIZQbfuEsSG9Icigs5rlBGfdRPqdkgCBlFYfCFlOjGnJKNWr5le6Vd8oHHovk4j2XWXPrC30qv4IVupt8KYznSirlNFsapZjWzb3KI11yte1e6Yhfn5o5UT9oQeSOu90Ik_PA/s1600/Couper%2527s+lane+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxYZby-RGIZQbfuEsSG9Icigs5rlBGfdRPqdkgCBlFYfCFlOjGnJKNWr5le6Vd8oHHovk4j2XWXPrC30qv4IVupt8KYznSirlNFsapZjWzb3KI11yte1e6Yhfn5o5UT9oQeSOu90Ik_PA/s320/Couper%2527s+lane+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Couper's Lane - looking from Trentham St to Lilleshall St </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: 12pt;">Co-op Lane</span></b></st1:address></st1:street><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Current route – North to South from Dunrobin St to Couper’s Lane<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Streets connected - <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Dunrobin St</st1:address></st1:street> to Couper’s Lane<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Other names - Pirie’s Lane<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"></div><div class="NoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Straw’s Lane<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Current route – North to South from Dunrobin St to Couper’s Lane<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Streets connected - <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Dunrobin St</st1:address></st1:street> to Couper’s Lane</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"></div><div class="NoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Frank’s Lane<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Current route – North to South from <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Sutherland St</st1:address></st1:street> to Dunrobin St<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Streets connected - <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Sutherland St</st1:address></st1:street> to <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Dunrobin St</st1:address></st1:street><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Other names - Frankie’s or Barnie’s Lane</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"></div><div class="NoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">AR McLeod’s Lane<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Current route – <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Dunrobin St North</st1:address></st1:street> to the boundary of the Post Office Garden<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Streets connected – <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Dunrobin Street</st1:address></st1:street> to the rear of the current Post Office, Johnson’s Garage and Mr Ian McLeod’s shop/property.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">There is a widely held view that this lane continued North and connected with both <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Sutherland Street </st1:address></st1:street>and <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Strathanver Street</st1:address></st1:street>. The OS c1874 & c1906 maps do not support this, although earlier maps may support it.<i> (David Cowie, 04/12/10)</i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"></div><div class="NoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Long Hugh’s Lane<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Current route – not in use<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Previous route – <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Dunrobin St North </st1:address></st1:street>to the boundary of Mr and Mrs Taylor’s property<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">There is a widely held view that this lane continued North and connected with both <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Sutherland Street</st1:address></st1:street>and <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Strathanver Street</st1:address></st1:street>. The OS c1874 & c1906 maps do not support this, although earlier maps may support it.<i> (David Cowie, 04/12/10)</i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"></div><div class="NoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Kate Ross’s Lane<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Current route – <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Dunrobin St North </st1:address></st1:street>to <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Sutherland St</st1:address></st1:street><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Streets connected – <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Dunrobin St t</st1:address></st1:street>and <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Sutherland St</st1:address></st1:street><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">There is a widely held view that this lane continued North and connected with both <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Sutherland Street</st1:address></st1:street> and <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Strathanver Street</st1:address></st1:street>. The OS c1874 & c1906 maps do not support this, although earlier maps may support it.<i> (David Cowie, 04/12/10)</i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"></div><div class="NoSpacing"></div><div class="NoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Nina Forbes’s Lane<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Current route – <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Dunrobin St North</st1:address></st1:street>to <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Sutherland St</st1:address></st1:street></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"></div><div class="NoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Rowan <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">House Lane</st1:address></st1:street><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Current route - From Dunrobin St to <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Sutherland St</st1:address></st1:street>, behind the Bannockburn Hotel</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="NoSpacing"></div><div class="NoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Manse Lane <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="NoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Current route – Access from behind the Free Church down to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">St. John</st1:place></st1:city>’s Well<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The pace has really quickened over the last week or so and the research is starting to fall into place and make sense - at last!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The snowy conditions prevented the group trip to the archive in <st1:place w:st="on">Inverness</st1:place>, but the group has been busy looking at a collection of Valuation Rolls dating from c1920s to c1970s, kindly on loan from Clyne Heritage Society, based in Brora. The group has also been allocating house numbers and house names to copies of the current OS map of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Helmsdale</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Village</st1:placetype></st1:place> - no easy task!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Talk of the project has reached the streets of Helmsdale and the group has prepared questionnaires which are ready to circulate to the local residents, accompanied by the invites to the programme of street talks/discussions to begin in the New Year. This information will also be found in local shops and in the local news section of the Northern Times.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Some interesting stories are beginning to come to light from local residents about living and growing up in Helmsdale. One such story comes from local resident Jim Mackay, who recalls growing up in <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Lillieshall Street</st1:address></st1:street>.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">“As a boy growing up in Lillieshall Street in the 1930s I remember that before I went to school in the morning I had to go and collect a bucket of mussels from our family mussel scalp down by the harbour. I also did the same task after school as well. My father, David Mackay, was a fisherman and when his boat came back from a days fishing around 4 or 5pm, I used to have to untangle the line in the back kitchen of our house. There was over 200 hooks to untangle on each line and sometimes I used to cut of the hooks, which was a bit of a cheat, but we got finished sooner. Each fisherman was responsible for four lines. The task of baiting the lines was usually done by the Aunts in the back kitchen. In the morning my father would take the baited lines back down to the harbour and the whole process began again.”</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(Jim Mackay, 01/12/10)<o:p></o:p></span></div>Jacquie Aitkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048791619864644908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7818958863504082766.post-68967828734837948402010-11-30T09:50:00.000-08:002010-11-30T09:55:03.183-08:00A Snowy Sutherland Street: Past and Present<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">The snowfall over the last few days has provided the prefect conditions to photograph Sutherland Street and compare it with a similar snowy photo taken around c1930s. Brian and I (Jacquie Aitken) went for a walk today and tired to stand in the same location where the old photograph was taken, so we could compare the two images - see what you think!</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">We also took a photogrpah of the North side of Dunrobin Street to compare it with another older image - I think this one is more accurate, but how much has changed?</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On our walk we chatted to a few local residents about the different lanes in Helsmdale - I didn't realise there were so many. Some names highlighted were Frank's Lane, The Mound and Embo Street. If anyone has other lane names please get in touch - we will add all this information to the village community arhive in Timespan.</span></span></div></div>Jacquie Aitkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048791619864644908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7818958863504082766.post-38353844068242922982010-11-27T08:48:00.000-08:002010-11-27T11:22:11.371-08:00Which street will I choose to research?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The group met up again on Wednesday 24th November and everyone was keen to choose a street in Helmsdale and Portgower and start researching the houses and listing the previous occupants. This information is vital for people doing family history research and we hope that by the end of the project we can make this job easier, for both local people and visitors to the area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The project co-ordinator Jacquie Aitken was delighted to announce that Brian Adams had finished typing out the 1841 censes for both Kildonan and Loth Parishes - well done! The information was split into the different streets and distributed out among the awaiting participants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Here is a list of our street <em>'caretakers'</em> currently working on the project - and we are still looking for more people to get involved, so come along to the next workshop on Saturday 4th December from 10.30am-12.30pm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Joan & Jim Mackay - Strathnaver Street</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Joan Murray - Sutherland Street & Trentham Street</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">David Cowie & Mike Wood - Shore Street</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Gerry Wood - Lilleshall Street</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Elizabeth Richardson - Marrel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Anne Sinclair - Stafford Street</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">David Cowie & Lisa Macdonald - Dunrobin Street</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Jean Sargent - Old Caithness Road</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Leoma Aitken - Bogholes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Stittenham Street - Frank McCuloch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Murial Amey - Navidale</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Esther Macdonald - Portgower (All streets)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Did you know that there is an 'Assynt Street' with two houses mentioned on the 1841 census!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Saturday 27th November - Maps, maps and more maps!</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Today's session went very well with 15 people braving the snowy conditions to come along to the workshop. Everyone was given a copy of the Ordnance Survey (OS) 1st ed map dated c.1874, OS 2nd ed map dated c.1907 and the most current OS street map. These maps will be useful to find out the location of older houses and record how the layout of the streets has changed over the last 100 years.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Wednesday 1st December</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Trip to the Archive Centre in Inverness</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Meeting in the Timespan Car Park at 9.30am</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong> Returning home at approx. 4.30pm</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">All enquiries direct to Timespan</span></strong></div>Jacquie Aitkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048791619864644908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7818958863504082766.post-81100240747617838442010-11-20T07:32:00.000-08:002010-11-29T10:07:35.628-08:00Chatty first Saturday morning!<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The first Saturday session of the project was full of chat and discussion on how to take the project forward.</span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The fourteen enthusiatic particpants started the session by filling out questionnaires to find out how much they knew about the houses they lived in and their past inhabitants.</span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here are some useful questions that the particpants came up with to help us research the houses of Helmsdale and Portgower. Maybe you could help us answer them!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">House name and number (Including Street Name)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Can you help us with house names and numbers? Some houses just have a number</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, i.e. a croft number</span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">or street number</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>.</strong> Do you know the meaning of your house name, i.e. Gaelic translation. Is your house built on a corner and therefore located in two streets.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When was your house built?</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Look out for a datestone or do you have the land deeds showing the date. It is more difficult to find out the date of earlier houses built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries - maps or title deeds can help here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Present condition</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Some older houses in the villages were demolished, but their locations still exist on old maps. Some houses are still upstanding but not occupied and most are currently upstanding and occupied.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Last or present occupant</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">This information can be easily obtained by talking to local residents or using old phone directories etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Pre-1841 infomration</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">(Maps, estate rentals, title deeds etc)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Previous occupants</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">(Census records 1841-1901, Valuation Rolls, Old Parish Records etc)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>House queries</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Number or name changes etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Surname street connections</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">List the streets with inhabitants with the same surname.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Do you have old photographs of your house?</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Old photogrpahs can show a house before it has been altered, e.g. thatched roof, before or before it has been heightened or harled etc. We are also looking for photographs of the past residents - can you help?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Oral history account</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Any house history can be greatly enriched by adding real-life histories and memories from older inhabitants and a new prespective can be gained from the current younger generation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Family Tree</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Timespan geneaology group is working hard to link up the members of the different families in the village from 1841 to present day. If you have family history information we would love to hear from you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Additional information</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Do you have any stories or anecdotes to add to the house and occupant histories, i.e. The house where McLeod, the local Helmsdale photographer, lived was called <em>'The Studio'.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Useful contacts</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">We would like to make contact with the older street residents to ensure that we collect the correct information and hear from them what life was like growing up in the diffeent streets in Helsmdale and how they ahve changed over the years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Can you help us with any of these questions for the houses in Helmsdale and Portgower - if you can, we would love to hear from you - please contact Timespan on 01431 821327 or e-mail: <a href="mailto:archive@timespan.org.uk">archive@timespan.org.uk</a></span>Jacquie Aitkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048791619864644908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7818958863504082766.post-9948607386528966362010-11-16T08:32:00.000-08:002010-11-16T09:00:16.755-08:00Research work begins in earnest!<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The project has got off to a great start with volunteers Brian Adams and Frank McCulloch typing out the 1841 and 1851 census returns for Kildonan and Loth Parishes. The information will be inputted into searchable databases which will make it much easier to extract the '<i>street by street</i>' information for our albums.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">The 1841 census is considered to be the first modern UK census. It records the place where a person was staying at the time the census was taken, the name, the age (rounded up to nearest 5 years), the occupation and if a person was born in the Parish, usually recorded as a yes or no. It does not record the relationship between family members of a household and for Kildonan and Loth there are no house numbers or names.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Brian has typed out 2434 entries to date - well done!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">He has found out that there were 201 people staying in Dunrobin Street in 1841 in 27 houses. The occupations inlcuded merchants, coopers, fish curers, a tailor, a mail driver, shoemakers etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">More information about the 1851 census to follow shortly!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">If you have any information about the buildings and past inhabitants in Dunrobin Street please get in touch - we would love to hear from you!</span>Jacquie Aitkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048791619864644908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7818958863504082766.post-3188134222663143702010-11-11T07:04:00.000-08:002010-11-16T07:52:41.135-08:00Welcome to 'The Streets Where We Live' project<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Timespan's latest heritage project - get involved now!</span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">This project is an exciting and engaging way to get actively involved in family history research in your local area. We will be looking at the houses on every street in Helmsdale and Portgower and the people who lived there in the past. A five month programme of activities including workshops, genealogy sessions, research trips, talks and walks will begin in mid November until mid March 2011. This is a project that everyone, of any age, can participate in and it will include training for all levels of ability.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Dates and times:</span></b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">(You can sign up for all the events or you can come along to any of your choice)</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Saturday 20th November from 10.30am-12.30pm</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Introductory session: Short illustrated talk and informal discussion</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Setting up the 'Street' research projects</span></i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Project dairies and inputting to blog</span></i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">A look around the Timespan Community Archive</span></i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Forthcoming events </span></i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Tell us your views</span></i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Tea and biscuits to finish</span></b></span>!<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wednesday Morning Workshops 10.30am-12.30pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">From 24<sup>th</sup> November to 2<sup>nd</sup> March 2011<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Saturday Morning Family History Sessions 10.30am-12.30pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">From 27<sup>th</sup> November to 5<sup>th</sup> March 2011<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b>What will we have at the end of the project?</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b> </b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b>Street Album</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span> <br />
<ul><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">A short history of each house</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">A list of the occupants and their families</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Family history connections (where possible)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Photographic archive</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Oral history reminiscences (where possible)</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Associated stories</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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