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Updated: August 4, 2021, 8:48 am Support is growing for Invernessian Josephine Tey, the crime writer s crimewriter, to be commemorated in the city with a blue plaque A groundswell of support has emerged for the placement of a blue plaque in Inverness to recognise one of its most successful daughters, featured recently in the P&J. Best-selling author and playwright Elizabeth ‘Beth’ MacKintosh, aka Josephine Tey and Gordon Daviot (1896-1952) had strong connections with the city’s Castle Street, where her family owned a successful fruiterer and various other properties which they rented out. One of their addresses, no 53 Castle Street, was demolished earlier this year, and is in the process of being rebuilt, complete with the original stone façade. ....
Down memory lane: City street was named after âmost useful magistrate everâ By Contributor Published: 19:30, 29 January 2021 Get the Inverness Courier sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day s newspaper Bill McAllister After this strangest of Burns Nights, it is curious to reflect that next month will be the 220th anniversary of the bizarre death of the man who hosted the Bard to dinner in Inverness, writes Bill McAllister. Burns was, with colleagues, on a short Highland tour in autumn 1787. They stayed in Aviemore then dined with Sir James Grant MP, before an overnight stay near Nairn. ....