Past Times journalist for DC Thomson Group. Loving digging up the past after many years in news and current affairs.
Falklands 40th anniversary: Veteran Mallaig Marine regrets erosion of hard-won freedoms
April 4, 2022
Off the shelf: Meet the people who kept 1977 Highland Stoneware mugs marking Queen’s Silver Jubilee
March 28, 2022
Braemar blaze: When village was scene of another catastrophic lodge fire
March 18, 2022
Caroline, 70, still has pram parents bought her at age 6 – do you have a similar toy story?
March 17, 2022
Northern uproar: When fuel price rises saw the region brought to a halt by blockades
March 16, 2022
Are You Being Served? The Benzie and Miller stores were a shopper’s paradise
March 10, 2022
Meet the three men who protected the Highlands from a ‘Dingwall Autobahn’
March 8, 2022
Hair today, gone tomorrow: Victorian criminals used curling tongs to raid northern hotel rooms
March 3, 2022
UK inflation: Britons were also being hit in the pocket 50 years ago
March 3, 2022
Do you remember the Odeon? Aberdeen’s first ‘supercinema’ opened 90 years ago
February 28, 2022
Inverness horror death shines light on grinding poverty of Victorian age
February 25, 2022
Do you remember the iconic buses which kept the Highlands moving?
February 21, 2022
Do you remember the glory days of Forres Picture House?
February 15, 2022
Thomas Telford: Kind, happy and fun-loving Colossus of Roads
February 14, 2022
Do you remember the Callander to Oban railway line?
February 11, 2022
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February 8, 2022
Death by duck paste: Centenary of the Loch Maree botulism tragedy
February 4, 2022
Treasured way of life: Do you remember mobile shops in the Highlands?
February 2, 2022
The birth of Alien: How Skye was the star of Ridley Scott prequel Prometheus
January 27, 2022
Clootie offerings keep centuries of healing tradition alive at Black Isle well
January 25, 2022
Hoots Mon: Elgin band leader Harry Robinson created smash-hit with Lord Rockingham’s XI
January 25, 2022
Jack Stitt was a Gordon Highlander who refused to let the Death Railway defeat him
January 25, 2022
Were you there when Meat Loaf played in Aberdeen in the 1980s and 1990s?
January 21, 2022
Tilleys, Rayburns and dipping ink: Memories of a 1950s childhood in Sutherland
January 20, 2022