The live broadcast of the opening of the Empire Exhibition from the newly built Wembley Stadium on this day in 1924. A Marconiphone receiving set, amplifier and three loudspeakers were installed in front of Inverness Castle and around 2,000 people came to listen [source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/1/03]

A goods train at #Kildonan Station, #Sutherland in April 1952 [photo from the Highland Railway Society's Collections]

The pupils of #Kinlochewe School in 1954. Names here - https://www.ambaile.org.uk/asset/6660/  [photo from the collections at #Gairloch Museum]

A young woman carrying a creel full of peat, late 19th century. The precise location is unidentified but it's somewhere in #Skye  [photo: Valentine & Sons; source: Edinburgh Central Library]

On 21 April, approximately 350 young men and women, mostly from Lewis, boarded the SS Metagama at Stornoway, joining a similar number who had already boarded at Glasgow. The Metagama had been built on the Clyde for Canadian Pacific and launched in 1914. [source: HLH Archives, D17512/1/18]

A group of Lovat Scouts pictured with some of the staff at the Edinburgh War Hospital (aka Bangour Village Hospital) which was located just north of Livingston. This photograph was published in ‘The Highland Times’ on 20th April 1916

#Erbusaig, near Kyle of Lochalsh in Wester Ross, 1920s [photo: Duncan Macpherson; source: Skye & #Lochalsh Archives]

The A838 looking northwest towards Ben Stack, #Sutherland, c1920s [source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/2/11]

Cars, most looking like they're ready to be scrapped, at 59 Argyle Street, #Inverness in April 1978. Argyle Car Sales operated from here in the second half of the 1970s before relocating to Glenurquhart Road in 1981. [photos: Ken MacKenzie / Highland Council]

A MacBrayne's bus approaching #Maraig, North #Harris in April 1968 [photo: John Sinclair]

Baiting a fishing line with mussels in #Cromarty, c1910 [photo: Willie John Smith]

The signature of Prince Charles Edward Stuart along with those of a few of the other people involved in the Jacobite Uprising of 1745-46 [courtesy of Glengarry Heritage Centre]

The annual commemorataion of the Battle of #Culloden. This postcard features photographs from the 158th anniversary on 16 April 1904 when proceedings were led by Theodore Napier, secretary of the 'Legitimist Jacobite League of Great Britain and Ireland' [source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/1/02]

The opening night gala performance at Eden Court, #Inverness on this day in 1976 featured the Scottish National Orchestra with members of Scottish Ballet, Scottish Opera and the Royal Ballet. The programme for the concert is here: https://www.ambaile.org.uk/asset/58231/ [photo: HLH Archives, D1451]

Eden Court Theatre, #Inverness which first opened its doors to the public 50 years ago today. Happy Birthday Eden Court!

Angus John Campbell ploughing with a cas-chrom (foot plough) near #Lochboisdale, South #Uist, c1930s [photo: Margaret Fay Shaw; source: Canna House, NTS]

Telephone Box & Post Box at Crùlabhig, Isle of #Lewis, 2009 [photo: Stephen Branley]

Customers and staff at the issuing desk at #Inverness Library, April 1982 [source: HLH Libraries]

'Ben Alder' on train waiting to depart #Thurso for Inverness in April 1951 [source: Highland Railway Society]

'Ben Alder' air treana a' feitheamh gus am falbh e à Inbhir Theòrsa gu ruig Inbhir Nis sa Ghiblean 1951 [neach-fiosrachaidh: Comunn Rèile na Gàidhealtachd]

Neil Beaton (left) and his brother, John, photographed in the mid-1920s on the family croft at #Camustianavaig, on the #Braes peninsula, Isle of #Skye  [photo courtesy of David Beaton]

A postcard view of #Wick High Street, c1938 #Caithness [source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/1/17; original image from Wick Society's Johnston Collection, JN20117B001]

A MacBrayne's bus on the slipway at #Kyleakin, #Skye in April 1962. Partially obscured by the bus is the Caledonian Steam Packet Company's 4-car turntable ferry, MV Broadford [photo: John Sinclair]

"The Piper to the Laird of Grant" painted by Richard Waitt in 1714. The piper is William Cumming; at least seven generations of the Cumming family were hereditary pipers to the Chiefs of Clan Grant [image courtesy of Glengarry Heritage Centre; the original hangs in the National Museum of Scotland]

Members of the Venables family in a horse-drawn wagon (or wagonette) outside Sponish House, North #Uist, 1908. They were the tenants of the house for several years before WWI [photo courtesy of Peter Ferguson]

Looking north along Chapel Street, #Inverness towards Chapel Yard Cemetery, 9th April 1967 [photo: Dr William James Bethune]

Construction of a house called 'Coig na Shee' in #Newtonmore, c1902. The first occupants were Allan MacGillivray, a farmer, and his wife Isabella (née Kennedy) [source: Highland Folk Museum]

The laying of the foundation stone for Kyle Public Hall on 4 September 1931 and the opening night on 8 April 1932. After the speeches there was a concert followed by a dance [photos: Duncan Macpherson; source: Skye & #Lochalsh Archive Centre]

A Black Five steam locomotive and a Class 26 diesel at Kyle of Lochalsh on this day in 1961. The steam engine was built in 1935 and was based at Inverness from 1957 to 1962. It was withdrawn in 1965. The diesel loco was built in 1959 [photo from the Highland Railway Society's Collections]

House at Shandwick, Easter Ross, April 1977 [photo: Ken MacKenzie / Highland Council]

The SS Cormorant, early 20th century. She was a supply ship owned by Robert Garden, a merchant based in Kirkwall, Orkney. The vessel served his stores which were dotted around the coast of north and west Sutherland [source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/1/15]

The shop front and staff of G. H. Sinclair & Co., grocer and provision merchant in Grantown-on-Spey, c1900 [photo from the collections at #Grantown Museum]

Kinbrace Station, #Sutherland, from the rear of a train in April 1952 [photo from the Highland Railway Society's Collections]

Employees at the Rose Street Foundry, #Inverness in 1922 [source: HLH Archives, D1/19/18]

A MacBrayne's bus at #Staffin, #Skye on this day in 1965. It is on the return service from Portree to Kilmaluag. [photo: John Sinclair]

The crew of the fishing station at #Staffin, #Skye in 1949. They're tied alongside a supply boat to which they're about to transfer the previous day's catch.  [source: West Highland Salmon Fisheries Collection; Skye & Lochalsh Archive Centre]

Railway Station and Post Office staff at #Lochailort, 1930s [source: Highland Folk Museum]

#Scarinish, #Tiree, circa mid-20th century [source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/1/21]

#Aultbea, on the shores of Loch Ewe, in April 1978. In the centre of image is the #WWII-era 'Romney' prefab building which is now the village hall [photo: Ken MacKenzie / Highland Council]

ScotRail Clas 158 eadar Cill Donnain agus Bun Ilidh air an là seo ann an 2001 [neach-fiosrachaidh: Taigh-tasgaidh Nàiseanta an Rèile, Iorc]

A ScotRail Class 158 between #Kildonan and #Helmsdale, 2001 [source: National Railway Museum, York]

A simple advert for Howdens of #Inverness which appeared in the 'Highland News' on this day in 1916. Similar notices appeared throughout #WWI

On this day in 1908, Volunteers corps made their final parades before being replaced by a new Territorial Army. Those assembled in Inverness included, amongst others, the 1st Volunteer Battalion Cameron Highlanders; Highland Royal Garrison Artillery & the Inverness troop of Lovat Scouts

#Suilven rising above #Lochinver, early 20th century [source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/2/11]

A locomotive shunting wagons at Kyle of Lochalsh on this day in 1951. The engine was built in 1919 and originally numbered HR 79. It was withdrawn in 1952 [photo from the Highland Railway Society's Collections]

Sheep clipping at Croft of Clune, #Newtonmore, 1930s  [saource: Highland Folk Museum]

The #Kessock Bridge in March 1982, five months before it opened [photo: Andrew Fraser]

#Keills, on the southeast coast of #Jura, 1946 [photo: Valentine's; source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/1/19]

A bus near #Flodigarry on the Portree to Kilmaluag service in March 1978. #Skye #IsleofSkye  [photo: John Sinclair]

A busy scene at #Wick Station on this day in 1913. The posters indicate the carriage was reserved by the emigration agent, J.W. Smith, for people who had booked passage to Canada through him. See - https://www.ambaile.org.uk/asset/57776/ [photo: J.B. Humphrey; source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/1/17]