Forres Gazette
9 May, 2008
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FORRES ROOTS » Times Gone By
Bike club still rolling after 25 years
Published:  07 May, 2008

THE Highland Classic Motorcycle Club, which has at least a dozen members from the Forres area, is hoping for a good turnout to a fundraising effort planned for the end of this month.

76 years of jam and Jerusalem
Published:  23 April, 2008

THE Findhorn Women's Rural Institute celebrated its 76th birthday earlier this year, and is still going as strong as it did when it started nearly 80 years ago.

From the hell of WWI to patrolling in the Gulf
Published:  09 April, 2008

TO mark 90 years of the Royal Air Force, which was celebrated last Tuesday, RAF Kinloss recreated a picture from November 1918, this time in the Gulf, to show the RAF then and today.

Work continues on two memorial tablets
Published:  19 March, 2008

WORK is continuing on a project being undertaken by St Laurence Parish Church to set up and establish a Memorial Remembrance Book containing the names of all the men listed on the two memorial tablets in the church vestibule.

Guild looks back on 72 years of service
Published:  12 March, 2008

FORRES Townswomen's Guild has been in existence for 72 years, and although when it started back in 1936 it had distinct political and social connotations, it has mellowed with age.

Museum set to mark milestone
Published:  05 March, 2008

THE Falconer Museum threw open its doors last Friday to celebrate the birth of its founding father, Hugh Falconer, who was born 200 years ago on February 29.

Do you remember seeing The Beatles in Forres?
Published:  13 February, 2008

WHERE were you on May 5, 1960? If you were in Forres Town Hall watching The Beatles, the author of a book about the supergroup would like to hear from you.

Museum set for 200th anniversary
Published:  06 February, 2008

THE 200th anniversary of the birth of the man who gave his name to the Falconer Museum at Forres is to be celebrated by a special event organised by Moray Council's museums service.

Reunion call to Squadron
Published:  30 January, 2008

CALLING all former members of 120 Squadron! The squadron is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year at a reunion weekend to be held from June 13-15 at RAF Kinloss, and your attendance is requested.

Foundation looks back 45 years
Published:  28 November, 2007

THE Findhorn Foundation and Community celebrated its 45th anniversary in traditional style last week with a dinner and social in the centre which is at the heart of the community. A special gathering was also held at the Universal Hall afterwards.

Memories flood back for Czech war veteran
Published:  21 November, 2007

A CZECH national who spent time in Forres at the end of World War II, serving with the Polish Intelligence Service, returned to Moray last month to re-visit the town where he spent three months after being smuggled out of France in a submarine and brought to Britain.

Milestone to be marked by accordion and fiddle club
Published:  14 November, 2007

IT WAS back in 1978 that the Royal Burgh first reeled to the sound of the Forres Accordion and Fiddle Club.

Honour roll looks at the men behind the names
Published:  07 November, 2007

THIS weekend, at thousands of war memorials around the United Kingdom and at countless church services, people will pay their respects to the memory of the men and women who died serving their country in two world wars, and in many other lesser conflicts in the years since.

You won't get me I'm part of the old streets reunion
Published:  17 October, 2007

A REUNION between friends who all used to live around the Bogton Road area in the early post-war years, has been voted a roaring success.

Bogton Road reunion plan gathers pace
Published:  26 September, 2007

A SPECIAL reunion event planned for next month will be filled with tears and laughter if a group of ladies who have known each other since before the war have anything to do with it.

Former PoW has fond memories of Forres area
Published:  20 June, 2007

BACK in 1946, following the end of World War II, a 19-year-old German prisoner of war arrived in Scotland.

Family's pain eased at last... 63 years after war crash
Published:  16 May, 2007

A FORRES man has just returned from a poignant visit to a Dutch village where he watched the final piece of a jigsaw about his family life being put in place.

The horrors of war hit home
Published:  09 May, 2007

BELGIUM: it might be beautiful now, but who knew how much destruction had taken place there during the war?

Digging up the past of famed fossil hunter
Published:  02 May, 2007

APPLEGROVE Primary School in Forres is the venue on Friday for a very special illustrated talk about Hugh Falconer whose life’s work with fossils is the cornerstone of the collection at the town’s Falconer Museum.

A kistful of memories discovered in kirk
Published:  11 April, 2007

AN OLD wooden kist which has been in St Michael's Church, Dallas, longer than anyone can remember yielded a bit of parish history last week.

Sporting medal sparks appeal
Published:  21 March, 2007

A SPORTING medal won in a tug-of-war competition back in the 1920s has left a Roseisle man scratching his head, trying to work out how it came to be in his late father's possession.

The fallen of South Africa remembered
Published:  07 March, 2007

ONE of the most popular features appearing in the pages of the 'Forres Gazette' every week is 'The Way We Were', which retells the stories which made the news 100, 50 and 25 years ago, and also carries a photograph from days gone by.

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