10/06/2026
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Last week, a visitor came to the museum hoping to learn a little more about her mother's time in Easter Ross during the Second World War.
Her mother had served in the Women's Land Army and had worked at Balnagore and Scott's Farm, Fearn. When she mentioned this, I told her about the Tea Room visitors' book, which was donated to the museum a few years ago. The book contains the names of hundreds of servicewomen who passed through Tain during the war years.
As it was a quiet morning, we went through to the museum store to see if her mother's name might be there. Not many pages in, we came across an entry dated 19 June 1943. There, among the signatures, were two Women's Land Army members working at Fearn: Sadie Fulton and her friend Nancy.
More than eighty years after Sadie signed the visitors' book, her daughter was able to see her mother's name written there in her own hand. It was a special and unexpected moment, connecting a family story to a small piece of local history preserved in the museum's collection.
