Scouting around Inverness 1907-2007 Family History Research The tales start before WWI

The tales start before WWI (when many families lived in housing conditions which simply wouldn’t be tolerated today) and include those of people who lived in the older parts of the town from the Shore to Merkinch

Robert Preece's book has over 100 illustrations from the first hundred years of Scouting in Inverness

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This beautiful drawing features Tonald and Mrs Og waving off Angus who is on his way to Glasgow

Robert Preece has been associated with Scouting in and around Inverness for nearly fifty years

Scouting around Inverness 1907-2007 Family History Research The tales start before WWIPublished in 2011, Robert Preece's book has over 100 illustrations from the first hundred years of Scouting in Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and around Grantown on Spey. It tells the story of the development of local Scouting in the Central Highlands from the publication of Baden Powells book Scouting for Boys in 1908 until the centenary celebrations of 2007. It includes personal interviews and reminiscences and much of the material is previously