Highland Life

In June Betty Bruce recollected her childhood memories of VE Day in Fort William. In this second instalment she reminisces about life after the War.

Some beautifully embroidered postcards were recently gifted to the Museum.

These postcards are part of a much larger collection sent by John McCall

When Highland Council relocated to the Charles Kennedy Building in 2018, they gifted an array of interesting items to the Museum.  Among the objects d

There were once five sets of tunnels under the Caledonian Canal between Banavie and Gairlochy. One of these collapsed about 1840 and drained the canal

Deep in my memories is the love for our little school in the country which at the time of me attending only had four pupils. My sister Margaret and

The West Highland Museum’s Commando room has proved to be a hugely successful recent development.
As a child in Banavie in the 1940s and 1950s, the

On 8 May 1945 the country celebrated VE Day.  Betty Bruce lived with her parents in Inverlochy village on the outskirts of Fort William where she at

The Lochaber Power Company and the British Aluminium Company were formed, and by 1924 work had begun on constructing a smelter at Fort William.  
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In 1625, as the civil war raged in Scotland two Parliamentary armies tried to bottle up and destroy the Marquis of Montrose and his loyalist force i