Nairnshire

Related to Nairnshire: Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire

Nairnshire

(ˈnɛənˌʃɪə; -ʃə)

(Placename) (until 1975) a county of NE Scotland, now part of Highland

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Jenny's example has given Brian the encouragement to lose a stone and the couple regularly runs 5Ks with their sons David, five, and Henry, three, Recently, Jenny completed the Nairnshire Challenge, which involves a 30-mile run and a 17-mile bike ride.

Nice day for a lite wedding

Total quantity or scope: Approximately 1346 units located as follows Inverness Area (507); Ross-shire Area (602); Nairnshire Area (216); Caithness & Sutherland Area (21).

Gas Services Maintenance Contract

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.

The poetics of potter james campbell: Article by tim boon

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.

The Fiddle in Scottish Culture: Aspects of the Tradition

SGDS, Vol 2: Item 211 and Vol 5: Item 830, testing with the words cnap and tapaidh, obtained preaspiration taking the form of a voiceless velar fricative /x/ with one or other of these words in the following areas: mainland Argyll (and its inshore islands) from Loch Melfort to Ardnamurchan; most of Inverness-shire (apart from Arisaig, Morar, much of Lochaber and western Badenoch); Morayshire; the Letterfearn area of Ross-shire; Nairnshire, and the Glen Lyon, Loch Tay, Tyndrum and Balquidder areas of Perthshire.

The Gaelic of Stirlingshire

One of the police officers leading the investigation described the murder in the Highlands seaside town of Nairn in Nairnshire as 'almost bizarre'.

Killed on doorstep

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

Nairn was apparently a hotbed of activity, and the WEA group uncovered a fascinating report from the local paper, the Nairnshire Telegraph, in 1912.

Women have come a fairway

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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org THE 15TH NAIRNSHIRE CHALLENGE Heads the length of the county on bike and foot on June 17.