Highland Objects

Ho! Ho! Ho! Bonus Podcast Four - Christmas 2022 highlandobjects.wordpress.com/2022/12/21/bon… thanks to @HighldHistorian @HMuseum and Castle Hill Heritage Centre

The Hexham Hoard was discovered in the abbey grounds by the sexton and his assistant while digging a grave #OTD in 1832. Some 8,000 Northumbrian coins of the C9th were found preserved in a bronze bucket of the same period. 📸British Museum

Today marks the anniversary of the death of Thomas Telford in 1834. His impact on the Highlands and Islands was huge, constructing an extensive network of well-engineered roads, over 1,000 masonry bridges, the Caledonian Canal, several harbours and churches, as well as planned towns, including Ullapool. This portrait by Samuel Lane hangs in Inverness Town House

Spectacular pre-WWII footage, over 100 years old. A plane drops a smoke curtain to hide a navy warship in the 1920s. Using liquid titanium tetrachloride, which reacts with the ocean air, forming white titanium dioxide clouds.

We're the Caithness Broch Project, and we want to build THIS! First we need to purchase the land - and you can help. We've raised over £16,000 in only 4 days. Can you get us to £20,000? Hit the link below, and please share! crowdfunder.co.uk/p/buy-the-broc… #Caithness #Brochs

The Galloway Hoard was discovered by detectorist Derek McLennan at Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire, #OTD in 2014. Deposited around AD 900, it is both Scotland’s earliest Viking-Age hoard and the richest ever found in Britain and Ireland. 📸National Museums Scotland

Rare, early film of three stylish gentlemen demonstrating the use of a clapper stile gate in the English countryside. Incredibly, this was filmed in 1910.

Máel Coluim (III) mac Donnchada, king of Alba; William de St Calais, bishop of Durham; and Turgot, its prior, took part in a foundation ceremony for a Norman cathedral befitting the relics of Cuthbert and Bede #OTD in 1093.

@jconnollybooks Guilty as charged m'lud

Currently reading about the actress Bette Davis, whose husband Ham, upon filing for divorce in 1938, testified that she had read books “to an unnecessary degree”…

Two service buses parked outside the Old Jail in #Dornoch, #Sutherland, 1966 [photo: John Sinclair]

I'm opening the Bloody Scotland festival this year on the Friday afternoon with a SETTING THE (CRIME) SCENE event with Simon Toyne and Allan Gaw, chaired by the wonderful Professor James Grieve. Info and tickets: bit.ly/3IpzG1l #BloodyScotland #CrimeFiction

John Mackenzie and his father on the Bealach na Bà (“Pass of the Cattle”) in July 1955, waiting for the engine of their 1935 Jowett to cool down. Built in 1822, the road follows an old drover’s route over the #Applecross Peninsula [photo: George Maclennan; courtesy of John Mackenzie]

Made a wee map of all our episodes so people can use it as a guide for when they are travelling. Also helps us ensure better geographical coverage of Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💖🗺️ storiesofscotland.com/storiesmap

What’s your take: Is podcasting ready for fully AI-generated shows? ⚠️ Hot takes welcome. #AIPodcasts #CreativeTech

How it started: TIME publishes its “top 100 podcasts” list 😂 How it’s going: Real time, personalized podcast recs on Goodpods based on the suggestions from people you follow and your interests 😎 Welcome to new world!

Reminder the Museum will be open on Sundays in July and August. No excuses now for not visiting. @WickHeritage @GroatNews @WickVoices @WickSociety

Yarrows Heritage Trust need YOUR help - and it'll only take a few minutes. If you've got an interest in the Yarrows area in Caithness, or live nearby, then they'd love to hear your views about how to develop and improve. surveymonkey.com/r/yarrows PLEASE RT! #Caithness #Yarrows

23–24 July 1916 | Tain Remembers Four young men from our area fell during the bitter fighting at High Wood on the Somme: Cpl Charles Gordon Sgt Andrew Fraser Sgt William Fridge Pte Kenneth Munro #WWI #TainHistory #BattleoftheSomme #LestWeForget

Calling all #Highlands Businesses! Scratching your head when someone asks what there is to do in #Caithness? Just foist one of these on 'em, and let our peculiar map do the talking. If you want some, let us know!

@MartinBill300 @bo66ie29 I know what you mean, but I don't think it is as, from my memory, you can't see the cathedral from that side of Claypath, and that view would be down towards the market square and the road - as it was then - on down the hill of Silver Street. Still a wonderfully evocative film

@bo66ie29 I think the first part is looking down Claypath in Durham, with the Cathedral at the top of the picture.

A charming film of a snowy English village in 1963.

If you are interested in #CircularEconomy #innovations and #wickedproblems don't miss this event eventbrite.co.uk/e/unlocking-in…