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Lady Carnarvon set up Balchurn (Home Farm) as a model dairy farm, which remained active into the 1950s. [3] Alexander Williamson bought the Alvie Estate from Lady Carnarvon in 1927, primarily for its field sports, and the Dalraddy Estate in 1929. The family also had land holdings in Angus. Around the time of Alexander Williamson's death in 1930 ...
The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami, and New York City.
Drakies is a small housing estate on the outskirts of Inverness, Scotland, [1] [2] lying immediately south of the former Inverness-shire village of Culcabock.Both these areas are now suburbs of the city of Inverness.
Holm is a small residential area in the south of the city of Inverness, Scotland. The area lies east of the River Ness. The most prominent structure in the vicinity is the Holm Mills. The mill is known for its contribution to the Caledonian Canal, by weaving a cloth to prevent the embankments from leaking. Until recently, tartan was still being ...
Milton of Leys (Scottish Gaelic: Baile Muilinn an Leigheis, meaning "Mill-Farm of Medicine" [3]) is an area of the city of Inverness in the Highland council area of Scotland. It lies on high ground overlooking the Moray Firth , 3 miles (5 km) southeast of the city centre, to the west of the A9 road .
Much of Glenurquhart was part of the Balmacaan Estate [3] [4] (also known as the Glen Urquhart Estate) [5] owned by the Grant family of Seafield between 1509 and 1946. [3] [4] The estate was rented to the wealthy American industrialist and local benefactor Bradley Martin in the late 19th and early 20th century [6] and flourished in the 1880s and 1890s, but went into decline after the 1920s.
[7] The spire, at the top of the tower, was damaged by an earth tremor on 13 August 1816, but was fully restored by 1828. [8] After new courthouse and prison blocks were erected at Inverness Castle in 1836 and 1848 respectively, [9] the tolbooth became redundant. After becoming dilapidated, the courthouse block was demolished in 1853, and was ...
Inverness Town House, High Street, opened 1882. The burgh of Inverness was abolished in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which abolished Scotland's counties, burghs and landward districts and replaced them with a two-tier system of regions and districts.