Lochaber Archive Centre

Lochaber Archive Centre Lochaber Archive Centre is the Lochaber office of the Highland Archives Service Lochaber Archive Centre holds historic archives relating to the Lochaber area.

High Life Highland is a company limited by guarantee registered in Scotland No. SC407011 and is a registered Scottish charity No. SC042593

28/05/2026

Learn with Lorna 260 – Treasures of the Highland Archive Service
Part of a series of events to share the collections of the Highland Archive Service.
This livecast is being brought to you by High Life Highland at no cost to the viewer.
High Life Highland is a charity registered in Scotland.
This event does not require any payment or subscription but we welcome donations.
To donate please visit https://shop.highlifehighland.com/products/archives-choose-your-donation
All previous episodes can be seen at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyxasYGi8kIcL7OThf1QGsHAMACY_1DGE&si=1u6WUF-hBjP7iV1H

Laggan Dam, photographed in the 1930s by Gordon Shennan. (Gordon Shennan Collection, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery)
27/05/2026

Laggan Dam, photographed in the 1930s by Gordon Shennan.

(Gordon Shennan Collection, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery)

26/05/2026

The Lochaber Archive Centre will be closed on Thursday (28th May), as I will be an exciting in-person Learn with Lorna event at the Highland Archive Centre!

We will be open as usual on Friday morning.
Many thanks 🙂

22/05/2026

Due to staff illness, the Lochaber Archive Centre will be closed today. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Many thanks 🙂

Turnip sowing, Munerigie Farm, 1904: At the back pushing the sower is the shepherd, Duncan Inglis, who lived on the farm...
21/05/2026

Turnip sowing, Munerigie Farm, 1904: At the back pushing the sower is the shepherd, Duncan Inglis, who lived on the farm with his family. Pulling it, at the front on the right is Edward Charles Ellice, who lived at Munerigie before he moved into Invergarry House after inheriting the estate.

(Glengarry Heritage Centre Collection, Am Baile)

21/05/2026

Learn with Lorna 259 – Mary Gwendoline Mackenzie

Part of a series of events to share the collections of the Highland Archive Service.
This livecast is being brought to you by High Life Highland at no cost to the viewer.
High Life Highland is a charity registered in Scotland.

This event does not require any payment or subscription but we welcome donations.
To donate please visit https://shop.highlifehighland.com/products/archives-choose-your-donation.

All previous episodes can be seen at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyxasYGi8kIcL7OThf1QGsHAMACY_1DGE&si=1u6WUF-hBjP7iV1H

Great to join Care Lochaber and Lochaber Hope for a wee trip down memory lane yesterday!
19/05/2026

Great to join Care Lochaber and Lochaber Hope for a wee trip down memory lane yesterday!

14/05/2026

Learn with Lorna 258 – Further tales from the Commissioners of Supply
Part of a series of events to share the collections of the Highland Archive Service.
This livecast is being brought to you by High Life Highland at no cost to the viewer.
High Life Highland is a charity registered in Scotland.
This event does not require any payment or subscription but we welcome donations.
To donate please visit https://shop.highlifehighland.com/products/archives-choose-your-donation
All previous episodes can be seen at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyxasYGi8kIcL7OThf1QGsHAMACY_1DGE&si=1u6WUF-hBjP7iV1H

Inverlochy Primary School shinty team, 1962/63. Any faces you recognise?(CI/5/3/188/75g)
12/05/2026

Inverlochy Primary School shinty team, 1962/63. Any faces you recognise?

(CI/5/3/188/75g)

Letter from Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, 30 January 1740, concerning a distinct lack of professionalism shown by the two do...
09/05/2026

Letter from Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, 30 January 1740, concerning a distinct lack of professionalism shown by the two doctors treating his 'aigue', or fever:

'I have been pretty ill with the aigue since you went away, so that I was forced to send for Doctor Cuthbert and Doctor Fraser, who stayed here for five days, and all the service they did me was to drink drunk day & night, for except when they slept, they were not five minutes sober since they came to the house, and Doctor Cuthbert is still here & all the medicines they gave were severall dishes of laughter which happened very often. My servants got heavy lifts of them in carrying them from this room to their beds, it was a thousand pities for they are two pretty gentlemen, but Achnagairn has by much the advantage of Doctor Cuthbert, when he is in his own house, he seldom drinks, and Doctor Cuthbert is every night drunk in his own house; however I bless God, by my following my old prescriptions of drinking the infusion of severall bitters in Spanish Wine, and of drinking a glass once or twice a day of the Spanish Wine with the Peruvian Bark infused in it, the aigue is almost gone'.
'Peruvian bark', also called 'Jesuit's bark' came from South America; it contains quinine, so it probably did help to cure Lovat's illness.

(CL/B/6/6)

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