Portree Local History Society

Chair: Morna MacLaren
Vice Chair: Bruce McGhie
Secretary: Nanette Muir
Treasurer: Tim Moore

Programme of Meetings: 2006 - 2007

October 10 - Bill Cowie - Kirk Cave, Rona
November 14 - Alister Ross – Education – PHS100
December 12 - Norman Newton - Skye and Raasay
(in association with Aberdeen University Centre for Lifelong Learning )
January 9 - Pat Myhill - Telford’s Stein
February 13 - Fiona MacKenzie – Màiri Mhòr nan Orain -
A song-lecture
March 13 - Ian McCrorie - The MacBrayne Story
April 10 - AGM, with guest speaker - Roger Hutchinson - “Calum’s Road”

All meetings are held at Tigh na Sgire, Portree,
at 7. 30 p.m.,
on the second Tuesday of each month.

• The Secretary: Nanette Muir
• Website issues: Steve Clarke

Dualchas, part of The Highland Council Education, Culture and Sport Service, is based in Tigh na Sgire, Park Lane, Portree.

The Heritage Service gives access to detailed information on the history and culture of the locality through the varied and extensive resource material it holds.

The collections comprise 10,000 photographs as well as maps, postcards, documents, family and legal papers, and around 3,000 books.

For those with an interest in the distant past, there are archaeological and landscape survey reports, sites and monuments records and some of the artefacts resulting from local excavations.

We are open to visitors Monday to Friday, from 9am to 5pm (apart from lunchtime) or by ‘phone on 01478 613857.

• Introduction to the History Society
• Some recent meetings
• Some sites worth visiting
• A meeting place for Historians
• Michael Davitt on Skye