Nairnshire


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Nairnshire

(ˈnɛənˌʃɪə; -ʃə)
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(Placename) (until 1975) a county of NE Scotland, now part of Highland
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Nairn was apparently a hotbed of activity, and the WEA group uncovered a fascinating report from the local paper, the Nairnshire Telegraph, in 1912.
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Total quantity or scope: Approximately 1346 units located as follows Inverness Area (507); Ross-shire Area (602); Nairnshire Area (216); Caithness & Sutherland Area (21).
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As well as being the author of the romantically observed landscapes of south west Wales and Nairnshire, Campbell is a modern artist who admires such artists as Ben Nicholson as well as the previously mentioned English painters of the inter-war years.
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They also endeavoured to uphold customary port-side working hours (initially 12 hours but eight hours by the 1870s reflecting the influence the eight hour day movement in Australia) This led to strikes on the Benjamin Heaps, JEH, Glonshee, Victorian, Moreton, Nairnshire, Donna Francesca and many other ships.
The low rumble of informal dissent: shipboard protests over health and safety in Australian waters, 1790-1900
Further, it is barely acceptable at the present time, given the accessibility of genealogical data, especially (once again) on the World Wide Web, to state simply and without elaboration, 'Walker mentions two fiddlers in Kilmarnock in addition to McCrone: Andrew Templeton and Lawrence Ritchie', or 'Robert Smith of Lossiemouth was born in Ardach in Nairnshire and died around the late 1880s' (both examples on p.
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One of the police officers leading the investigation described the murder in the Highlands seaside town of Nairn in Nairnshire as 'almost bizarre'.
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Major General Ian Robertson is furious at the cash he says Highland council has wasted on signs at the tiny village of Brackla in Nairnshire
SIGNS OF MADNESS; Retired Army chief attacks council over waste of cash
org THE 15TH NAIRNSHIRE CHALLENGE Heads the length of the county on bike and foot on June 17.
CHARITY CHALLENGE
Officers raided the home in Auldearn, Nairnshire, Taylor shared with wife Joan and his 16-year-old daughter and seized computer equipment.
RAF foster carer fined pounds 1000 for child porn
JONATHAN HARRIS, aged 21, is a self-employed cabinet maker from Cawdor in Nairnshire.
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