HISTORYLINKS MUSEUM

What's New

Second Quarter 2008

 

Linked recent acquistions

The museum has recently acquired a pocket watch engraved by George Bell of Dornoch with a photograph of the watch worn by William Matheson when he lived at Skelbo, working as a gardener and coachman.

Help us identify......

We think this derailment is near the Mound. Do you remember this happening and exactly where it was?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A merry procession ouside the Eagle Hotel, thought to be in the 1950s. If you can identify any of the onlookers or when or what was going on we would be pleased to hear from you..

 

 

 

 

 

This photograph is almost certainly a quarry near Dornoch but can you provide any details?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Access to Museum Catalogue

Launched on 1 June 2008 and accessible from the link in the left hand navigation panel, the Historylinks Image Library provides access to images and data of 60% of the objects in the museum collection.

The Library permits the viewing of objects by year or by subject related albums and there is a comprehensive search facility. As an exciting dimension, the website is interactive, allowing users to add comments when viewing any image page. Historylinks is particularly interested in comments which will add factual and background information suitable for an addition to the existing catalogue description. We hope that comments may strike a chord generating a dialogue of additions to the website.

Any comments of a general nature, rather than specific to an image page, can be input from the link 'Site Comments' at the foot of the image library home page.

The Image Library will be subject to progressive improvement over the next 12 months. The total musuem catalogue contains over 7,000 records with about 3,000 currently without a linked image. We will be tackling this backlog of image capture, progressively adding new records, and our volunteers will be working on pdf files and enlarged images for zoom viewing for selected image pages.

Regular access to the image library will enable you to keep abreast of additions and, of course, the latest comments. Click on the link 'Additions' at the top of the Image Library homepage to simplify the process of keeping tabs on what has changed since your last visit to the library.

 

Last updated: 20 July, 2008