17 September 2025, Starts: 19:00

Celebrating the local links of Rev Thomas Sinton

Organised by Laggan Heritage and Laggan Church Partnership. Venue: Laggan Church

The event will include talks, poems, and songs

The Rev. Sinton was born at Aberarder in 1855.  His family moved several times through his youth, but he clearly felt a great affection for Badenoch and much later in life, he wrote two locally significant books - The Poetry of Badenoch and By Loch and River, which includes poetic works and notes on his local recollections.

This event also marks the formal transfer of a photographic portrait of the Rev. Sinton, which had long hung in the church at Dores on Loch Ness side.  With the sale of the church in 2023, the future of the portrait was uncertain.  We are extremely fortunate that Dr Hazel Campbell took an interest and secured it in the hope that it would find a welcome home in Badenoch.  We are delighted to receive the portrait and after a brief period of conservation, hope to display it as part or an exhibition of local culture in the Church.