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ARCH Highland

24 February 2014, Starts: 19:30

Migration of some Border shepherds to Caithness and Sutherland in the late 18th/19th century

Talk by Jenny Bruce

Dingwall Community Centre, 7:30 (doors open at 7pm). Suggested donation £3.

Interesting stories of the introduction of sheep, the families who came to oversee, and later emigrate to the Colonies. This talk also includes Thomas Telford's engineering enterprises in the northern counties and his influence at this particular time.