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Snowdrifts at #Dalnaspidal Station, late-19th century

[source: Inverness Museum & Art Gallery]
December 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Cathaidhean-sneachda aig Stèisean Dail na Spideil, deireadh nan 19mh linn

[neach-fiosrachaidh: Taigh-tasgaidh is Gaileiridh Ealan Inbhir Nis]
December 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Deer! All I know about the location is it's "north west Highlands" in the 1970s

[photo: J.M. Strachan]
December 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
A covering of snow on the statue of Flora MacDonald in front of #Inverness Castle, circa early 20th century 
@InvernessCastle

[source: Joseph Cook Collection; Inverness Museum & Art Gallery]
December 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The nameboard at The Mound, which was a station on the #Sutherland Railway when it opened its line between Bonar Bridge and Golspie in 1868 and was also a terminus on the #Dornoch Light Railway. It took its name from the nearby road embankment

[photo from the Highland Railway Society's Collections]
December 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A winter scene near #Beauly, early 20th century

[source: HLH Libraries]
December 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Buses waiting by the pier at #Broddick, Isle of #Arran, 1960s

[photo: John Sinclair]
December 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Winter in #Strathcarron, undated

[source: Skye & #Lochalsh Archive Centre]
December 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Group of curlers outside the Palace Hotel, Grantown-on-Spey

[photo from the collections at #Grantown Museum]
December 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Cluicheadairean curladh taobh a-muigh Thaigh-òsta a' Phalace, Baile nan Granndach

[neach-fiosrachaidh: Taigh-tasgaidh Bhaile nan Granndach]
December 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
#Reindeer in the #Cairngorms having a well-earned rest following their exertions last night!

[source: The Reindeer Company Ltd.]
December 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Nollaig Chridheil! / Merry Christmas!

Ness Islands, #Inverness, December 1955
December 25, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Santa Claus letting the train take the strain to bring him to #Inverness, mid-1950s 

[photo: Jimmy Nairn; source: #InvMAG]
December 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Much more modern than most of the photos I post but it fits the winter theme very well - late afternoon at #Dalwhinnie Station in 2016

[photo: David Williams; source: Dalwhinnie Voices / Dalwhinnie Commiunity Council]
December 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The #Ballachulish Bridge, spanning the narrows of Loch Leven, under construction. It was opened to traffic 50 years ago today, replacing the ferry service

[photo: Ken MacKenzie / Highland Council]
December 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Looking west over the old schoolhouse at Kyle of Lochalsh towards Skye, 1960s

[photo: William J Grant; source: #Skye & #Lochalsh Archive Centre]
December 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
A’ coimhead chun an iar thairis air seann sgoil Chaol Loch Aillse a dh’ionnsaigh an Eilein Sgitheanaich, 1960an

[dealbh: William J. Grant; neach-fiosrachaidh: Tasglann an Eilein Sgitheanaich & Loch Aillse]
December 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The pier at #Foyers, on the east shore of Loch Ness, circa early 20th century. The narrow guage railway was used to take transport materials between here the Foyers Aluminium Smelter

[source: HLH Libraries]
December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Castle Street, #Inverness, in the snow, 1980s

[photo: Raymond Meiklejohn]
December 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Sràid a' Chaisteil, Inbhir Nis, anns an t-sneachda, 1980an

[dealbh: Raymond Meiklejohn]
December 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
#Deer in #Glenfeshie, early 20th century

[source: HLH Libraries]
December 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
#Snow on the ground around #Clachan Church, at the southern end of Loch Broom, undated

[photo from the collections at #Ullapool Museum]
December 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Fraser Park Fire Station, #Inverness under a blanket of snow, 1955. The station, which was largely built by Fire Brigade staff, opened in 1943 (along with another in Telford Road). It closed in 1958 when a new station at the Longman was ready

[source: HLH Archives, FB/3/5/1/2/8]
December 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A bus parked up in the snow at #Stornoway Harbour in 1968, having just arrived from Tarbert

[photo: John Sinclair]
December 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This is a wee bit outside the area covered by Am Baile but I think it's worth including - Nurse MacPail (I don't know her first name) beside the Ford Anglia she used to get around Banffshire in her role as a District Nurse
December 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM