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I was able to visit the
Clan Fraser at Beauly which is just a 15 minute drive from Inverness.
If you have been reading my various travel journals over the past year you
may remember I tried to visit this on 1st October 2003 only to find it had
closed on 30th September 2003. Well at least this time it was open
so I at last got a chance to visit it. I might add that a new
manager has been appointed and he was telling me that it will close during
November for refurbishment and it's his intention to open it all year
round and also to open later in the evening as well. So all of this
is a big step forward :-)
I did arrive a little early as the museum
didn't open until 10.00am so here are a couple of pictures from above the
town
As well as being the Clan Fraser museum it is
also the local information centre for you can see lots of other exibits
while you are here.
An exhibit about MacKenzie who discovered much
of Canada
And now we enter the Clan Fraser Room
Interesting information on the Ship Hector
which I took a photograph off while in Nova Scotia towards the end of my
Canadian trip
They do have lots of other Fraser information
so do ask them if you visit and you'll find them most helpful
You can purchase this list of famous Frasers
and on the right is the new manager
Should you wish to really
check out the Clan do have a talk with the manager as he knows all kinds
of wee details which I'l sure you'd like to follow up and visit. For
example he can show you where the clan used to go to get arrows some of
which were used at Culloden. |
