Nairn, Highland - Nairn Gams - pipe band - Dixon postcard 1957

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  The Nairn Games, one of the most popular of the Highland Gatherings
• Publisher:  J Arthur Dixon (3632)
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  2d brown Wilding
• Postmark(s):  Nairn 2 Sep 1957 machine
• Sent to:  Braddon Hall Crescent, Chelmsford, Essezx
• Notes / condition: 

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Nairn (/'n??rn/ NAIRN; Gaelic: Inbhir Narann) is a town and former burgh in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is an ancient fishing port and market town around 16 miles (26 km) east of Inverness. It was the county town of the wider county of Nairn also known as Nairnshire. ^[2]

The town is now best known as a seaside resort, with two golf courses, a community centre/mid-scale arts venue (Nairn Community & Arts Centre), a small theatre (called The Little Theatre^[3]) and one small museum, providing information on the local area and incorporating the collection of the former Fishertown museum.

King James VI of Scotland visited the town in 1589 and is said to have later remarked that the High Street was so long that the people at either end spoke different languages Scots and Gaelic. The landward farmers generally spoke Scots and the fishing families at the harbour end, Gaelic.^[4] Nairn, formerly split into Scottish Gaelic- and Scots-speaking communities, was a town of two halves in other ways. The narrow-streeted fishertown surrounds a harbour built by Thomas Telford while Victorian villas stand in the 'West End'. It is believed that the Duke of Cumberland stayed in Nairn the night before the battle of Culloden.

In 1645, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the battle of Auldearn was fought near the town, between Royalists and Covenanters.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=scotland

county/ country=aberdeenshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=posted