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The Cromarty Image Library contains lots of pictures to interest locals, expats and visitors alike. There are 2011 pictures on the site for you to browse through.

Cromarty Fisher Dialect
Am Baile, the Highland History and Culture website (www.ambaile.org.uk) is currently compiling a lexicon of Cromarty fisher dialect. Type Cromarty into the search box on their site to hear some of it.

If anybody remembers any words or phrases that their parents or grandparents used to use please email Janine at Janine.Donald@highland.gov.uk.


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Click to View Joel has conducted another interview, this time with Clem Watson. This has been split over a number of different pictures.
It includes reminiscences about his father and grandfather and their boats, as well as tattie picking.

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